Bitcoin Pizza Day: P2P Digital Cash Actualized 12 Years Ago
While many like to use Bitcoin Pizza Day as a meme, it actualized Satoshi Nakamoto’s goal with their invention: digital money without intermediaries.Bitcoin Pizza Day is likely the famous remembrance day of Bitcoin’s history. It alludes to the day when BTC was first used to purchase a real-world product, on May 22, 2010. The transaction took place after Laszlo Hanyecz posted to the most active medium of communication about Bitcoin at the time – the Bitcoin Talk forum:“I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas.. like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like....
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This is my official, first-person review of the website PizzaForCoins.com, which allows you to buy pizza with Bitcoin from the three largest pizza chains worldwide, instead of using paper currency. The thoughts and views expressed here are not necessarily shared by CryptoCoinsNews.com and are the opinions of the author, Evander Smart, alone. Being a old boy from Brooklyn, NY, and therefore having ordered, I don't know, a couple of thousand pizzas in my day, I think I'm a fair judge of how a pizza order should go down. From start to finish, I'm nothing if not experienced in the art, and now....
eGifter and Tyler Roye Celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day! eGifter is celebrating the Pizza Day on May 22nd. What is Pizza Day? Four years ago two pizzas were purchased with 10,000 bitcoins on May 22, 2010, they would be worth about $5 million today. People have kept using Bitcoin to purchase pizza and so much more. eGifter allows you to buy a huge amount of varying merchants gift cards furthering Bitcoin's reach as well as that of Litecoin and Dogecoin. The co-founder of eGifter, Tyler Roye, was able to talk to me about the impact of Pizza Day and why he is running a promotion to honor it. How....
All Pizza Hut locations in Venezuela now accept a broad range of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, via the payment platform Cryptobuyer. Pizza Hut joins Burger King, Intercontinental Hotel, Traki, and several other major stores in Venezuela that accept bitcoin. Pizza Hut Accepts Bitcoin Cryptobuyer announced on Friday that all Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela now accept cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. The company wrote: From today, you can share with your family and pay with cryptocurrencies … in any of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela. The announcement adds that....
Yesterday, it was Potcoin. Today, it would be great if we all went out for beer and pizza... Coin. That's right, there's Beercoin and there's Pizzacoin. There are 500 total coins in existence of each, and both are part of the CCP line of Commercial coins along with Vodkacoin, Colacoin, and even Hotdogcoin. Ah, the names and purposes we're able to dream up. Judging from their labels, I think it's only safe to assume that users can buy beer and pizza with the digital currencies, and heck... What a nice way to spend the night out; hanging with friends, chugging down a cold pint and satisfying....
Our very own Caleb Chen, chowing down on a slice. Thursday marked the four year anniversary of the initial Bitcoin Pizza Day. You can read about it here at our article which was featured by Business Insider and Tech Crunch. May 22 is a big day in Bitcoin history. In 2010, Florida programmer and BitcoinTalk user Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for pizza. This transaction is famously known throughout the cryptocommunity as the first real world transaction/purchase used with Bitcoin. It is now known as Bitcoin Pizza Day. So I decided to celebrate. I went to CoinMap.org to find....