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Bitcoin Pizza Day
- Prathamesh Kakaria
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min read
a) Every year on 22nd May, Bitcoiners all over the world eat pizza
b) They don't do it because pizza is delicious. They do it because it's a tradition
c) Back on May 22, 2010, one man made history by making the first "real world" purchase with bitcoin
d) A man named Laszlo Hanyecz was an early contributor and miner to Bitcoin's software when it was barely a year old
e) In 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins or roughly about 30 dollars at that time
f) Bitcoin's today value at $60,000 means that famed programmer Laszlo Hanyecz effectively paid $600 million for two pizzas
g) The day, 22nd May, every year is now known as "Bitcoin Pizza Day"
-Prathamesh Kakaria
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