Pizza gold and precious stones representing the amount paid in the first physical transaction in cryptocurrencies. Picture Bitso
This Sunday Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated in Argentina, the event commemorating the first transaction in cryptocurrencies. Twelve years later, more than a thousand guests enjoyed a special event in Palermo and thousands more benefited from free shipping to purchase their pizzas. Furthermore, they revealed what its “components” should be that iconic pizza, which in 2010 was worth 10 thousand bitcoins.
Music, games, networking and merchandising, as well as great mozzarella and the other flavor is free, its Bitcoin Pizza Day attractions in the City of Buenos Aires, the venue to join the world movement for the first time. Tickets are free and distributed by invitation: first, by sponsors of the bitcoin ecosystem and with innovative methods.
This is its premiere Token-Gating or Access by tokens: Those who collected certain crypto assets (NFT) in their social wallets at other events were accessible at the meeting, which had Welook and PizzaDAO as the main organizers and with sponsors such as TravelX , Agrotoken, BNB Chain, PintaToken, POAP, CoinEx, DefyEducation and SatoshiMarket.
Bitcoin Pizza Day 2022 in Buenos Aires.
In addition, there are free shipping on the Orders Now app for purchases at pizzerias using a crypto card from Belo, Buenbit and Lemon.
Bitcoin Pizza Day is a special day that already has editions in other major cities, such as San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seoul, Dubai and São Paulo. brings together thousands entrepreneurs, developers and hobbyists which aims to advance the evolution of the decentralized digital economy.
“Today, cryptocurrencies are used around the world to buy cars, planes, houses and even citizenship, and Latin America is no exception“, explained Daniel Vogel, CEO of Bitso, about the current applications.
How Bitcoin Pizza Day was born
The date recalls a major milestone in the ecosystem: the first purchase of goods made using Bitcoin. made it concrete Laszlo Hanyecz, an advance in crypto development. At that time he paid 10,000BTC, then equal to approximately 41 dollars. The story is different now.
Laszlo Hanyecz next to pizzas currently worth more than 300 million dollars.
Twelve years later, according to the Bitcoin Pizza Index, the purchase is worth $ 389 million! Although to measure the growth of Bitcoin, it takes a graphic example: what ingredients should one of those pizzas be equal to the current value of 10,000 BTC.
Gold and diamond pizza that mimics the value of the first physical purchase using bitcoins. Picture Bitso
“Included 24K gold massdiamond encrusted, ring, sapphire toppings and amethysts, funny expensive watches and a gold rocket ”, they described it from Bitso.
the future of crypto
Bitcoin -moving some $ 5 billion a day– It is accepted as a means of exchange by various commercial establishments, delivery apps, international payment platforms and even recognized as the legal currency of El Salvador. In Argentina, it is even possible to pay in that cryptocurrency using special Visa and Mastercard credit cards.
“Each of these use cases places bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies more broadly, as a alternative to traditional fiat currencyequally valid, useful and important, ”Vogel said.
In the latest rise and fall of the price of bitcoin, he said: “The usefulness of cryptocurrencies (their ability to facilitate faster, simpler and more affordable transactions, has helped people who need it most. with agility, facilitate complex global processes and provide integration and finance.freedom to people) is the inevitable lead to billions of people around the world to embrace technology and make a better life out of it. “
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Source: Clarin
