The story of Laszlo Hanyecz, the programmer who bought two pizzas using 10,000 Bitcoin, will be forever talked about. Not least because at $9k per BTC that equates to $90 million in today’s money, and not even due to...
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News ‘Diet’ Laszlo Hanyecz has the honor of conducting the first commercial Bitcoin transaction: trading 10,000 bitcoin for about $30 worth of pizza. Ten years later, those bitcoin would be worth $91 million. He apparently has no regrets. “It...
If you owned a share of an experimental technology, how much of it would you give up to help that technology grow? Startup founders do this calculus whenever they raise capital. Ten years ago today, a developer named Laszlo...
The crypto community is celebrating its tenth ‘Bitcoin Pizza Day’ on May 25, 2020. The day marks the anniversary of the first-ever documented purchase using bitcoin. Laszlo Hanyecz bought two Papa John pizzas worth $30 for 10,000 BTC in...
Domino’s Dominos France has announced a giveaway competition in which one lucky pizza/crypto aficionado will win €100,000. The catch? Prospective winners have to choose between a denomination in bitcoin or fiat … On second thoughts, it’s a pretty easy...
Today marks the nine-year anniversary of the first ever reported transaction using Bitcoin to make a purchase. A Florida-based, early crypto supporter spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas, making history through a mundane meal purchase. Since then Bitcoin price...