One thing that has always gave me an odd feeling about this story is that it was pizza. I do not know how many of you are dark webbers or know how the sexual criminal underground works, but pizza is a popular term.
I am of the belief that this initial transaction was bitcoin for child porn. Cheese Pizza = CP = Child Porn and pizza is a common shortening of that term.
Basically bitcoin, in the beginning, was very criminal and used a LOT in the child porn scene. These are just my thoughts and opinions on it. Who knows though, maybe it was a real pizza!
You have a point but, this has happened in the time when bitcoin is just infant or basically no value at all. Will anyone accept bitcoin for a payment in any criminal underground works like child pornography if bitcoin has no value at all? It surges its value when many investors or users become part of a peer-to-peer network - and that time the pizza story was already part of bitcoin's history as the first real-world transaction.
In my opinion, yes I would. Most certainly if I wanted others to start doing so as well. I am not saying I am correct about my theory, I just think it is possible. You do raise a good point though and you are most likely correct.
I agree with you.
Certainly, Bitcoin also is used by those criminal minds due to its anonymity characteristics. They can transact freely with illegal goods without any hindrance from the authority since its absolutely untraceable. But for us, cryptonians, we will use this for good. Personally, i used bitcoin for my family needs an additional $$$ input for our daily expenses ;)
I had bitcoin a long time ago just because I thought it was cool. I used it over time and never thought much about it the last 5 years. Now that I have spent the last 3 weeks or so looking at this booming crypto market, I am starting to invest this week.
That is the main reason I am using steemit, to start my crypto portfolio somewhere, and because I feel over time my content will certainly earn...I just need followers.
Anyway, yes bitcoin is for great things now and we can all be happy about that. Let them use monero or USD for illegal stuff =)
Take care friend, i followed you btw.
The pizza was interesting but I do recall hearing this version of the story too, wonder what the truth is. Occam's razor says pepperoni and mushrooms I guess...
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Interesting. A lot of things we use now came from sex and drugs.