Bitcoin Pizza Day: How a hungry Florida man made cryptocurrency history

Bitcoin Pizza Day: How a hungry Florida man made cryptocurrency history
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2019-5-22 16:00

Nine years ago today, the first ever Bitcoin transaction for a consumer product took place after a Florida man spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. Since then, cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe have celebrated ‘Bitcoin Pizza Day,’ not because the man in question paid 10,000 BTC, but because at the time said transaction represented a milestone for Bitcoin adoption.

  So, while buying pizza with Bitcoin today doesn’t seem too far-fetched, I can assure you it was a relatively big deal at the time because no merchant accepted the cryptocurrency as payment. On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid a fellow Bitcoin…

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