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How is there not a Bitcoin Pizza Day discussion yet??? Please share a link if my searching abilities are simply subpar...

I'm also surprised by the lack of news on the subject... perhaps everyone is simply waiting for Friday???

Especially, given that this will be ten years! I would think a larger celebration might be in the works (to be fair, I failed to realize it was ten years until today... haha).

Here's all a Google News search yields on the subject:

English:
https://decrypt.co/29525/500000-bitcoin-stash-from-satoshi-era-just-moved

Pretty cool that someone from the original month of bitcoin genesis has moved some. Might be Craig Wright, but we'll see.

https://www.forexlive.com/Education/!/simplefx-celebrates-bitcoin-pizza-day-with-50-spread-cashbacks-20200514

Not sure what a 50% Spread Cashbacks is...

https://capital.com/bitcoin-forecast-2020-what-to-expect

gotta love price predictions...

https://www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com/bitcoin-remains-firm-while-transaction-fees-rise/

High fees are a bummer, which is why I'm excited the lightning network is up and running!

One in Spanish came up:
https://cointimes.com.br/10-anos-de-pizza-day-o-que-isso-representa-para-voce/

Anywho, in my local news, I'm excited to share that Scratch Restaurant continues to accept bitcoin and will be accepting lightning network payments as well! I plan to get take out from there, although I think they may even be opening for eat in (at 40% capacity) tomorrow!

One thing that most people don't realize about Laszlo and the Bitcoin pizza ordeal is that he didn't just buy 2 Large Pizzas ( Papa Johns too, the most awful pizza you can buy here in the United States ) for 10,000 bitcoins, he stated here on bitcointalk that he spent at least 30,000 bitcoins on several purchases of pizza.  Not sure if all Papa Johns or not.  Crazy stuff. Some call him an idiot for this, which is simply wrong.  He was the first to use it as a means of exchange and that sure is worth celebrating.

If you're looking for a cool Bitcoin Pizza wallet - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249731.0

There is one here: 1 week until bitcoin pizza day (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5248649.msg54439557#msg54439557).

And I'm pretty sure that there will be more thread once we got closer to the date itself.

We can't really blame him for sure for what he just did. Bitcoin doesn't have that much value way back before, and because of him buying pizza's for tons of bitcoins, it introduces the value of bitcoin to people. But try to do the same thing today, buy items, goods and services through bitcoin as it is the best means to introduce bitcoin to people. By simply asking if they are accepting bitcoin, it will already trigger their mind what bitcoin is. The bitcoin-pizza event was truly historic and worth to commemorate, I hope soon, we'll not going to rely on the dollar value of bitcoin, thus, with it intrinsic value.

Papa Jones is not that aweful bro. We have it here in my country as well and they are certainly better than Dominoz!

I too am sure he is not stupid. Because we need to look at the date of his purchases. That time bitcoin was priced in cents so what he did is OK. Definitely he had missed his chance to become a billionaire but that's probably his destiny. But it surely calls for a celebration because that's the first ever incident where bitcoin used as a medium of exchange.

When I booked my first car 3 years back, I actually spoke to the Nissan sales manager to use bitcoin for the booking amount. But no one actually knew anything about bitcoin at all so my persuasion failed. But at least I tried.

For those people calling him stupid must be out of their mind. Maybe their just jealous that first adopters have a lots of BTC on their early days. Well thats because if their interest, and no one can possibly think of that during that time other than him. This is remarkable event for those truly appreciate the existence of BTC and will continue until the end.

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_{OP just wait, tons of post will probably be spamming this section about pizza, but good thing you already started one. We still have few hours utmost before that and Id like greet everyone a Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!}

Thanks for the reminder. I did one before, I'll do it again.


Blame him? You've missed the mark by some distance, or you're reading seriously misinformed news about him. People celebrate him. And it's why people are misled thinking holding is all that's needed to increase price (just as people think token burning is some hoodoo magic to magically pump price). You gotta spend and use shit to give the shit value.

Man Papa John's is the most dog shit pizza you could possibly eat.  Okay that is of course an objective opinion but I sure as hell can't agree it's better than Dominos.  I'm curious if you don't mind sharing what country you are in?  I live in Chicago, which I would argue is the 3rd pizza capital of the world ( Italy, New York, Chicago) so I don't eat any of that crap.  I'm however quite lucky. 

But agreed, he is legendary for establishing the first transaction using bitcoin as a means of currency exchange.  Though 30k bitcoins is equal to $272,843,056 million right now. Wow.

With that logic everyone in the world is stupid for not buying Bitcoin or not mining together with Satoshi. Or maybe Bitcoin will be worth millions an anyone who spends it today is "stupid". Besides, Laszlo was an early adopter (he even communicated with Satoshi and contributed to Bitcoin development) who like still holds some coins, and no one knows if he rebought the coins that he spend or not.

I just had a nightmare of that special pizza were with pineapples! Famous but with the caveat of commiting a felony in the process!

there is a competition going on bitcointalk discord party regarding bitcoin pizza day. you can also participate in the competition by submitting your own photo of your bitcoin pizza.

Being the First Person to prove how valuable this crypto currency is meaning He can be a Bitcoin Hero as the legacy
 remains until now though His work is too different from what people are doing now in which
uses bitcoin for HOLDING while He uses this for transaction .

He will never be forgotten and you are correct that this is worth celebrating here in crypto community and even
outside for all the people who support crypto and Bitcoin.

This is the most interesting thing,do we have some research what really happen about those bitcoin?if they
 remain in Papa Johns wallet or bought back to Lazz's wallet hope there will be some clarification
 about this very controversial topic bitcoin community ever had.

Legendary.

http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/.t/IMG_0984.thumb.jpg

http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/.t/IMG_0989.thumb.jpg


I'll definitely be ordering pizza for dinner tonight -- and paying with bitcoins, of course. :)

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, everyone!

It's so Ironic how some people call him stupid when the dude is one of the very fundamental why Bitcoin has value today. Besides, he used the technology on how it's supposed to be used instead of hoarding like everybody is doing today.
Isn't it the other way around? We, as hodlers are the ones who's stupid for not using Bitcoin to purchase something from the merchants to further widen the adaption and better circulation of Bitcoin in the cryptocurrency market.

Nevertheless, pizza day should always be remembered and celebrated.

There is a thread in Meta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247383.msg54477851#msg54477851) and a channel contest on Discord just for Bitcointalk, in case anybody really wants to talk about Bitcoin Pizza. I do not know why it is in Other though, for me this is absolutely a Bitcoin discussion, no question. Just the same as we would commemorate the first block, we should commemorate the first real world use purchase!

Perhaps it was shadowed by the (1) halving or post-halving (2) that 50 BTC movement.

I think there's more discussion last year as compare to today. I agree that it's going to be part of bitcoin's history and Laszlo's name one of the most recognisable.

And for the record, he also bought Pizza using Lightning Network: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-February/001044.html.

" Happy #BitcoinPizzaDay

"Don't try this at home" - July 2003

https://youtu.be/tNjoo9TuCHY?t=530

- bitcoin.org FAQ snapshot Jan 14th 2010 ..

https://twitter.com/BitcoinFX_BTC/status/1263410125827702785

Laszlo - bitcointalk.org May 18th 2010 ..

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

#BitcoinPizza #Bitcoin = #BTC "

- https://twitter.com/BitcoinFX_BTC/status/1263777457649397762

I think it would be wrong to say he was stupid considering the value of Bitcoin at that time. In my opinion he was the one who started the first Bitcoin adoption initiative. There might be others who might have done the same thing but he became famous because of the quantity of Bitcoin he used to buy those pizzas.

This issue is repeated every year. Sad but yes, somebody was deprived of having a great fortune today thanks to what they did years ago.

But how many people really hold the Bitcoins they bought in those years? So, is it different from buying pizza and selling those BTCs? Laszlo might have bought their pizza that day with BTC and then bought more BTC at the same price.

He gave us good material to talk and be surprised, but I think it's not that bad. I don't think anyone predicted that Bitcoin would be worth 20K someday in those years. (maybe McAfee :P)

There were some articles that were published earlier and that's just a few days ago. I've seen only few of them but now, if you'll look to the news with the keyword of Bitcoin Pizza day, you'll see them published just few hours ago. Here are those early articles that remembered this legendary day and published their articles few days ago.
SimpleFX celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day with 50% spread cashbacks] (https://www.forexlive.com/Education/!/simplefx-celebrates-bitcoin-pizza-day-with-50-spread-cashbacks-20200514) published May 14,2020.
ProBit Exchange Features Mukbang AMA on Its Very First Online Meetup on Bitcoin Pizza Day (https://btcmanager.com/probit-exchange-mukbang-ama-first-online-meetup-bitcoin-pizza-day/) - published yesterday.

it is an important event in the BTC history, but people should be aware that buying pizza with BTC was not that streamlined, it was an exchange between two persons, one provided BTC, and other bought pizza for fiat, and exchanged for BTC
fact that this happened on this forum is historical for the forum, that is for sure, and will stay as a milestone

Sorry I seem to forget the bitcoin pizza day this year, maybe because we are in a situation where there is a global crisis, some of us struggles, and only if the world is in normal order now, we might discuss more about this commemoration if this is what we call it.

Bitcoin pizza day always reminds me that I should not spend my bitcoin, instead save it as it's very scarce that in the long run it could give us some fortune, we might miss digging real gold in our life but we have the digital gold that will value like gold or even more in the future.

Relevant tweet:

I know you guys already know, but providing here if someone trolls you:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D68MVevXYAM-HKO?format=jpg&name=medium
https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1130152285978464257

https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1130152285978464257?s=20

He can be considered as idiot if he is spending that same amount of Bitcoin today for some pizza. At that time, nobody can be able to predict that someday BTC can be so valuable...there was no Nostradamus at their side. Anyway, this was a good story and will forever remain as one of the most famous and amazing stories relative to Bitcoin. It is always good to be reminded with the Bitcoin Pizza Day every year.

I would very much like to buy a 🍕pizza and pay with BTC, but unfortunately no one in my city offers such an option, so I will order a pizza and pay in the classic way💰.

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I wouldn’t call anyone an idiot if he pays something more than it’s really worth, it’s a matter of personal choice or in some cases bad information. If we look from today’s perspective, many people might be considered idiots because they were paying with BTC at a time when it was worth tens or hundreds of dollars per BTC, but such comparisons do not make sense if we are talking about something that is essentially a currency/means of payment.

This event that many people waited for bitcoin pizza day is also a bad day for market. The whales already took their shares in pizza - a pun that describe the current condition of bitcoin right now.. However, let us all be happy because this pizza day was the time  that bitcoin was appreciated.

For the bitcoin folks that has been in the community for about a year or two are already aware of that event. It's one of the greatest events that we can remember yearly which the value of bitcoin started. Don't forget the name of the guy that's involved in this historical pizza.
Thanks to Laszlo. If it's not because of this purchase, we don't know how long will bitcoin start to have value back then but forget about that if's. Let's all be happy on this bitcoin pizza day, who got their pizzas?

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day everyone!

Just ordered a pizza online to celebrate!

I made this meme for the occasion:

https://i.imgur.com/7H0e1Kr.jpg

It feel silly to criticize someone for past actions that he had no way of knowing the repercutions in the future. He was invested into crypto way before most of us, and we only got here because of people like him using bitcoin in the first place, so I'd cut him a bit more slack. I agree with you in that we can't blame him for not knowing, nobody knew..

That's right, we need to spend bitcoin and tell the world that we should not underestimate the value of bitcoin as a currency. In order for us to achieve mass adoption, we should use it and do more transaction that includes the use of cryptocurrency. It is just unique to imagine using bitcoin in buying Pizza, that was an outstanding and smooth move.

He deserved the celebration, the first Bitcoin transaction way back May 22, 2010, where he paid for 2 pizzas using bitcoin in Papa John's Pizza. If we still continue using bitcoin in our transaction even once a month, so that we can contribute to the promotion of bitcoin in our country. People just need to have some proof that bitcoin is legit and can be a mode of payment for a faster and less hassle transactions.

he feels bad obviously but we cant blame him at all because even our selve's we does that too. we also use our btc and other cryptos to buy food and something else because we dont have an idea that their value can grow in the future  and besides cryptos are really meant for spending , not for hodling primarily  . people doesnt share his bad moments or make fun of him but they only do it to remember what the guy did or in short to give honour to him because the guy just promotes btc that it can be really used for buying stuffs

Anyone who is criticising would have done the same or worse, this was a time when lots of people where ignorant and have zero knowledge about btc and its possible potential, I don't blame him, he is not a time traveller or fortune teller, he did what he felt was the right thing to do at that time,
We are all saying this now because btc was able to increase in value, assuming the reverse was the case, nobody will be talking about this, don't forget back in that time btc was tagged as scam, but now people see things differently.

I think what he did is purely favoring Bitcoin as that time the popularity of bitcoin is not been known outside IT community because i believ
 that year and so is that majority of people who knew bitcoin is IT student or graduate as one of my cousin have idea
about Bitcoin wayback 2010 but of course because of
scamming idea he never enter or even bought a price on this one.
Imagine Buying Pizza using thousands of Bitcoin that time,comparing today?you can have thousand of pizza in just 1 bitcoin
 so the situation is reversed lol.

and i believe following that is KFC buying thru bitcoin

and Starbucks also .