Pizza DAO, the decentralized blockchain project seeking to unite the global community of pizza fanatics with the technological potential of Web3, are celebrating Sunday's Bitcoin Pizza Day in authentic style. On Sunday, the project will host commemorative events at 100 pizzerias in over 75 countries around the world, including the United States, Argentina, South Korea, Ethiopia, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, and more. Alongside a nonfungible token (NFT) drop and charitable campaign, the events will attract a number of supporters including 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani, Seth Green, Steve Aoki, the Dogecoin team, and comedians Cheech and Chong, …

Laszlo Hanyecz has cemented himself in the crypto community as the “Bitcoin pizza guy” for spending 10,000 BTC in 2010 to purchase two pizzas, widely acknowledged as the first commercial Bitcoin transaction. At today’s prices, that 10,000 BTC would be worth well over $80 million. Cointelegraph spoke to Hanyecz on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day. We learned that $80 million dollars is nothing — he actually spent a lot more on pizza than had been previously reported. Hanyecz estimates that he mined around 100,000 BTC total, and about half of it went to pizza. If …

Famous entrepreneur and author, Andreas Antonopoulos, said that he paid five Bitcoin (BTC) for one pound coffee in 2012. "I don't rerget it or any other BTC I spent, or gifted," Antonopoulos told Cointelegraph in a May 22 email. "Without spending, BTC wouldn't have become what it is today," he added. "I still use it as a currency and I do a transaction or two every week." Antonopoulos didn't even like the coffee Antonopoulos' tweet came on Bitcoin Pizza Day — a crypto holiday commemorating the first documented commercial purchase using Bitcoin. Approximately 10 years ago, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid …

Bitcoin Pizza Day commemorates a historic event roughly 10 years ago, when coder Laszlo Hanyecz made the first commercial purchase using Bitcoin (BTC). In celebration of this well-loved community holiday, BitFlyer donated pizzas to a number of organizations. "We ordered the pizzas ourselves from a local chain and delivered them to the homeless shelters," BitFlyer COO Joel Edgerton told Cointelegraph on May 22. "We worked closely with the managers of the shelters to ensure they get the appropriate amount and get there on time." BitFlyer sending slices all over "Bitcoin Pizza Day is a very special day for our community," …