By : Nine years ago today, Laszlo Hanyecz, an early adopter of , offered 10,000 for two pizzas. He was taken up on that offer and recently told Magazine that he spent as much as .
5 Million Pizzas for the Price of Two
A single would buy you a year’s supply of pizza today, depending on where you buy it. For a standard $30 pizza order today, you’ll only shell out around 0.0038 . Effectively, Hanyecz could have purchased over 5 million pizzas if he had waited.
He’s been in the recently, as always, as the rises. Featured in the following last weekend, he said “It’s not good for me to think like that,” when Anderson Cooper asked him how he feels about having lost a fortune on pizza.
To celebrate Pizza day, Huobi essentially gave a massive discount on a significant amount of . About $1.5 million worth of were sold at a discount today. 50% was sold half-off, while the remainder was sold 12% off. This was a huge opportunity for traders that achieved massive success, , who wrote to CCN:
“Our Pizza Day Prime also took place over the course of two rounds. In the first, 38 was offered to users on a first-come, first-served basis for 1538.46 HT each – a discount of 50% off market price. In the second, 150 was distributed to 11,456 users via adjusted system matching for 2707.69 HT each – a discount of 12% off market price.”
HT . Huobi did the in conjunction with an initial exchange offering of RSR, the stablecoin’s backer .
How to Buy Pizza with Crypto
That was one way you might have celebrated, if you already had a qualified Huobi account. But you can also celebrate by buying pizza. Doing so directly isn’t widely supported, but there are numerous other ways to buy pizza online.
For example, you can use , as this reporter has historically done. You just use the crypto checkout option and buy a Domino’s or Pizza Hut or Papa John’s gift card in the amount you’re looking to spend.
There is also , which has similar functionality.
In honor of pizza day I’ll be ordering two pizzas and eating them both in one sitting.
— Digital McSmiley 🐃👀 (@digipleb)
Then, there is , an age-old website which enables you to buy pizza for .
If you happen to live in Iran, you can – if you choose to spend crypto.
Yes, 10,000 will go a long way these days. Laszlo Hanyecz is a for having conducted the first real-world transaction using the fledgling currency. Looking back, he’d have been better off not to spend it. But everyone who’s held a significant amount of crypto feels that way these days.
Published at Wed, 22 May 2019 22:02:13 +0000
