Thursday, May 23, 2019

Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day in Iran

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/celebrating-bitcoin-pizza-day-iran-190522104156961.html

"Abdollahi says that 90 percent of crypto payments at his restaurant are made using Ethereum. But on Wednesday, it's the granddaddy of cryptocurrencies - bitcoin - that he and fleets of crypto enthusiasts around the world are celebrating.

Known globally as "Bitcoin Pizza Day", this event marks a milestone in the legitimisation of cryptocurrencies.

On May 22, 2010, a Florida computer programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz confirmed that he had successfully traded 10,000 bitcoins to buy two Papa John's pizzas.

At the time, those coins were worth about $35. Today, 10,000 bitcoins are worth about $80m."


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