[Discussion] Bitcoin Pizza Day on Bitcointalk 🍕

[icopress]

Every year on May 22, the Bitcoin community celebrates Bitcoin Pizza Day. The day when a forum user under the nickname Laszlo paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas (in reality, according to Laszlo himself, he spent about 50,000 Bitcoins on buying pizzas). Therefore, this contest is a great opportunity to test your culinary skills and become part of the established tradition when Bitcoiners delight themselves and their loved ones with delicious pizza. 🍕

       What about prizes?

This year's sponsors were BC.Game, BitcoinGirl and Theymos (if anyone feels that they also want to be on this list please let me know). Please note that Bitcointalk Pizza Day 2024 is not an official event and is a community event. There will be 5 winners who will share a prize fund of $2,500 in Bitcoin.

	🥈 2/3rd place		🥇 1st place		🥉 4/5th place
	Prize of $500		Prize of $1000		Prize of $250

      How it works?

From the time the thread is published until June 1st, you will have the opportunity to post photos of your pizza (read the rules below). After the designated date, a voting thread will be created where, through joint efforts, we will determine 5 winners (the voting system will be identical to that used in the BCA).

• Post at least 2 photos: [1] Photo of Pizza + username and date [2] Photo of Pizza in the making ➥ Note
• Pizza should be Bitcoin pizza (Bitcointalk style is allowed).
• Pizza must be made by yourself / Only one pizza per user ➥ Note.
• I reserve the right to decide at my own discretion whether your baked goods are pizza or not.

Let me give advice ... while preparing Bitcoin pizza with my family for the third year in a row, I came to the conclusion that it is better to add Bitcoin symbols after the pizza has been in the oven for 7/10 minutes. If you add BTC symbols right away, they start to bake heavily long before the pizza is ready.

Discussion allowed!

[icopress]

Reserved

[paid2]

Happy to see this contest running again! Very nice prize btw!

I will participate this year, I have been training myself for a long time now to do nice pizzas with the assistance of my Italian wife Good luck everyone, cannot wait to see your creations!


Edit 20.05: it's time for pizza guys  

Everything is homemade, the dough of course, as well as the tomato sauce.  

The ingredients for the dough are always the same: water, olive oil, wheat flour, baking powder and salt, of course.



For the tomato sauce base, I used tomatoes, garlic, onion, oregano and other aromatic herbs, and spices (chilli, salt, pepper, herbes de Provence).




The sauce is cooked and the pastry rests under a light drizzle of olive oil (Some ingredients, such as chorizo, are for another pizza):



For the garnish, I chose Parma ham, mozzarella, red peppers, onion strips and spices.

The BTC is made from pizza dough. I precooked it so that it was solid, then added it to the pizza a few minutes before the end of cooking.







The pizza was very good, and I had a lot of fun making it for the contest! Good luck to all!  

[Lida93]

Am excited to participate in this pizza contest. For me, it's a privilege.

The ingredients used includes:
1. Irish potatoes
2. Eggs
3. Fresh tomatoes
4. Fresh red pepper
5. Green-ball pepper
6. White onions
7. Vegetable oil
8. Salt.

Procedure for preparation of my bitcoin pizza:
Started by peeling and slicing the Irish potatoes in small sizes, fried for it to get softened then followed with mashing it a beat. Removed it from the pan into a bowl (allowed it to cool off a bit) then I added my eggs, onion, red pepper, tomatoes, a pinch of salt then  steer till it all get mixed.

Poured it back to the pan to bake for a few minutes after which I had to slice some tomatoes and green-ball pepper for decoration of the surface. The BTC logo design was done using green-ball pepper.
It was really fascinating for me throughout the process.

Stage 1.


Stage 2.


Stage 3.


Stage 4.

[Rikafip]

Great to see bitcointalk pizza bake-off moving from Discord to forum!

Last time I had to miss the contest but this year I'll try to make one of the Italian mafia bitcointalk members win a little bit harder.  

Let me give advice ... while preparing Bitcoin pizza with my family for the third year in a row, I came to the conclusion that it is better to add Bitcoin symbols after the pizza has been in the oven for 7/10 minutes. If you add BTC symbols right away, they start to bake heavily long before the pizza is ready.[/i]

+1. I would also recommend to use some type of low fat percentage cheese like for example Milner that can withstand ~5 minutes in the oven as 250-275 celsius while still tasting good on pizza.

[Bd officer]

Happy Pizza Day celebration.

I don't have that much experience, but I tried my best and managed to make a pizza. Everyone in my family ate pizza, my pizza was delicious. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Celebration.

Ingredients used to make pizza:
1. Capsicum.
2. Flour.
3. onion.
4. Cheese.
5. sauce.
6. Baking powder.
7. Egg.
8. Meat.
9. Oil.
10. salt. etc

[dkbit98]

Happy to see another Pizza Day competition is now in Bitcointalk forum.
I am not using discord much these days, and this should reduce chances for cheating if we exclude brand new accounts and inactive newbies.

+1. I would also recommend to use some type of low fat percentage cheese like for example Milner that can withstand ~5 minutes in the oven as 250-275 celsius while still tasting good on pizza.

But I love my cheeses to be high fat and super stretchy  
There must be some compromise and recommended cheese brand-type for that.

[Rikafip]

But I love my cheeses to be high fat and super stretchy  

Me too, but unfortunately high fat % equals to cheese that melts way too easily for it to keep the shape you created.

There must be some compromise and recommended cheese brand-type for that.

The only compromise I can think of is to put cheese like mozarella (which is imho the best cheese for pizza) at the end, with only 1 or two minutes left but that means cheese won't be properly cooked. Tough choice.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Once we have winners, please tag me with the list of the winners and the amount to send [total up to $500]. Hopefully everyone will be enjoying their baking and don't forget to deliver a slice for me and my girl 😘

[SatoPrincess]

It’s great to see bitcointalk pizza baking contest on the forum. I’m a big fan of these contests. The pie baking contest was exploited a lot by alt accounts and cheaters, most of them were later caught due to similarities in their work and background. Is there a rule for those who can participate?

Also, not everyone visits meta, I think you should send Theymos a pm about putting the topic link on the home page so everyone can see it.

[GazetaBitcoin]

I am finally able to upload the images of my pizza... yay!

Now, I have to thank to my brilliant wife for her devotion, ingenuousness and capability of thinking out of the box... hence my our pizza (n.b. -- please smile when you'll read these words... ) is shaped like a Bitcoin So far I see that nobody had such idea during the contest, so the pizza is unique <3

Ingredients & preparation: tomato paste, mozzarella, smoked prosciutto, salami, smoked provola, cheese

• Print of bitcoin template and cut out
• Make pizza dough and roll out
• Cut out template in Dough and roll the outer pizza circle
• Add tomato paste
• Add mozzarella (it’s now officially a pizza according to Google)😂
• Add other ingredients
• Bake
• Recut out Bitcoin shape

The dough looks like this:

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Now an intermediary step...

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And... [...drums...] la pièce de résistance:

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[BlackHatCoiner]

First time making a Bitcoin pizza. Family ate it within 3 confirmations. The Bitcoin symbol was a delicious bread mixture. First time eating a Bitcoin as well.

Thank you, Laszlo!
No Gods or kings. Only Bitcoin.

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Backstage / Preparation

[cryptofrka]

I can't boil an egg but when my wife heard she could get 1000$ by baking a pizza, her eyes tripled in size.

Not sure she'll get anything as the competition is fierce, but at least I'll be getting a pizza

EDIT: pizza is done, you can see more of it here:

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[GazetaBitcoin]

Hey icopress, first of all, I'd like to thank you for organizing the contest this year! Also, organizing it on the forum instead of another platform makes things easier for some forum users which, perhaps, did not want to create accounts on other platforms in order to participate.

Second of all, I'd like to thank to the sponsors. The prizes are extremely attractive and I believe there will be many participants.

Third of all, I proposed this topic for being translated inside AOBT group, for giving a hand of help in making it more popular. In any case, no matter of my proposal will be accepted or not, I will translate it in Romanian.

Good luck to all participants!

[acroman08]

thanks for organizing this event for the community icopress. also, those are some very generous rewards for this year's Bitcoin Pizza contest, thanks for this year's sponsors.

I would have loved to showcase the improvements I made baking pizza this year after I joined the last year's contest but alas my lower back is currently fucked and I can't do much of anything. good luck to the participants, I can't wait to see what guys make.

[Agbe]

Happy Home made pizza to celebrate the day.

[PX-Z]

I can't boil an egg but when my wife heard she could get 1000$ by baking a pizza, her eyes tripled in size.

Not sure she'll get anything as the competition is fierce, but at least I'll be getting a pizza

That's unfair, not everyone has a wife who could bake, you should be the one who will make it, not your wife 

Well, at least no one will know if i do it or someone else, since i didn't mention it. 

[LDL]

Reserved for Submission..

[Ale88]

Last time I had to miss the contest but this year I'll try to make one of the Italian mafia bitcointalk members win a little bit harder.  

I suggest you to double check your oven, you know, sometimes accidents happen, maybe your oven won't work until the end of the contest... It's just a friendly advice



Of course I'm joking, I'm sure no Italian users will try to sabotage you



But I can't promise it

[lovesmayfamilis]

I already foresee how our participants will significantly increase their weight while they bake the best pizza. After all, we all want to show the best option, and this requires good practice. Now there is time to train and, accordingly, eat all failed attempts. Watch your weight, friends.