It’s Bitcoin Pizza Day, the day when the crypto neighborhood comes collectively to have fun the primary “real-world” bitcoin (BTC) transaction.
Again in 2010, Bitcoin OG Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC (value $1.1 billion at present) on two pizzas from Papa John’s.
In honour of the event, Protos has catalogued the value of BTC on Might 22 yearly since that day.
You’ll be able to view the chart right here.
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For those who saved $41 value of BTC purchased on Might 22 in both 2012, 2013, or 2014, you’d now have $908,000, $36,000, and $9,226, respectively. For those who have been to pay the identical $41 value at present, you’d want to make use of 0.0003703 BTC as an alternative of 10,000 BTC.
BTC’s value has risen by almost 2.8 billion % since that famed pizza buy, and at present it hit an all-time excessive of $111,544.”
The bitcoin buy was additionally huge for Papa John’s, which tried to capitalise on its affiliation with Hanyecz by providing free BTC with pizza orders all through Might 2021 within the UK.
Nevertheless, the UK’s promoting watchdog later banned the commercials, claiming it trivialized the high-risk funding to an viewers “likely to be inexperienced in their understanding of cryptocurrencies.”
Coinbase additionally bought some flak from some diehard bitcoin followers on final 12 months’s Bitcoin Pizza Day when it accepted the stablecoin USDC for pizza as an alternative of BTC. Onlookers with placards selling BTCPay Server denounced the occasion as “shitcoin pizza day” whereas on-line customers described Coinbase as “bad actors” for accepting USDC.
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