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The story of the $400,000,000 Pizza! (or $380,000,000 to be precise...)
Eleven years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz made what would become one of the most famous food purchases of all time, and now today will forever be known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Hanyecz asked an online forum if anyone would be willing to send him 2 large pizzas in exchange for 10,000 Bitcoins.
Jeremy Sturdivant took the offer, and it was the first exchange of real world goods for Bitcoin in history.
Some say both men were ultimately fools for not holding onto those 10,000 Bitcoin.
Others recognize that this exchange grounded bitcoin’s price in terms of real world goods for the first time ever, and became a catalyst for greater adoption. We finally had a money that was uncensorable, peer-to-peer, permissionless, and you could actually use it in your every day life to buy things.
It was a revolution, covered in marinara sauce.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, everyone!
And thank you Hanyecz and Sturdivant for helping ignite what quickly became a full fledged crypto revolution!
Edited by Lee Rennie
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Also don't tell me Lazlo didn't make plenty of btc donations from being so famous
If I were that guy I'd be going on interviews everyday in a halcyon haze just being so nice to everyone in bitcoin kissing so much ass on TV till I ended up with enough btc to show people that btc takes care of its own
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Thanks for sharing!!
Naomi post on here everyday and I will upvote all your followers!
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It is a memorable day, I think it was a great step to pave the way for the whole world of cryptocurrencies and transactions that we have today. Although if it was my BTC I would be very sad!
After watching I wish I could go to some Papa John’s Pizza restaurant and ...maybe I will. At Bitrefill (
https://www.bitrefill.com/ ) one can use crypto to buy gift cards to many restaurants.
Yeah you can use bitrefill at papajohns I believe!
HIVE!D
nice writing 🤌🤌 🤙
Thanks for watching!
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day
!PIZZA