Saturday Is Bitcoin Pizza Day: Here's How to Take Part
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Saturday Is Bitcoin Pizza Day: Here's How to Take Part

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Saturday, May 22 marks the eleventh ceremony of Bitcoin Pizza Day. Here’s how to booty allotment in the celebration.

What Is Pizza Day?

In 2010, aboriginal Bitcoin adopter Laszlo Hanyecz ordered two pizzas for 10,000 BTC, an bulk that was account aloof $25 at the time.

“I’ll pay 10,000 BTC for a brace of pizzas,” Hanyecz acquaint to the BitcoinTalk forums. “Like maybe 2 ample ones so I accept some larboard over for the abutting day….You can accomplish the pizza yourself and accompany it to my abode or adjustment it for me from a commitment place.”

Soon, addition BitcoinTalk user accustomed the action and ordered two pizzas from Papa John’s to Hanyecz’s address.

Eleven years later, 10,000 BTC is account added than $350 million, and the date is now an annually acclaimed accident as it marks the aboriginal time Bitcoin was spent on a artefact or service.

Get Free Pizza or Free Bitcoin

Several companies are commemorating the accident this year. Slice is giving away added than 2,500 pizzas beyond the U.S. in affiliation with PizzaDAO. Meanwhile, Papa John’s is giving U.K. barter £10 of chargeless Bitcoin back they abode an adjustment of at atomic £20.

Elsewhere, several exchanges are active trading contests. Binance is acceptance traders to aggregate basic pizza “ingredients” for a adventitious to win Bitcoin, and Gate.io is active a agnate contest.

Additionally, crypto companies are advantageous assurance on amusing media. Paxful, BZ Africa, and Beldex will accord users who call or architecture their ideal pizza a adventitious to win crypto. Huobi, OceanEX, CoinTiger, and Sesterce are giving abroad chargeless cryptocurrency to those who retweet or allotment challenge announcements.

Gemini UK and OKCoin are giving abroad chargeless pizza vouchers, while BitBuy is giving abroad UberEats allowance cards to users.

Other Related Events

The offers do not end there: YouHodler is giving abroad a chargeless Tesla to admire Pizza Day; users who put added than $1,000 into the accommodation account will be entered in the draw. Ballet is giving abroad pizza keychains to barter who buy a metal wallet.

Collectors of non-fungible tokens can additionally buy crypto NFTs from assorted projects, such as RarePizzas and CryptoPizza.

Finally, some companies are altruistic to accommodating causes. Fidelity Digital Assets will accord to Global Food Banking, while Anthony Pompliano’s afresh launched Bitcoin Pizza cast will accord to the Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund.

Disclaimer: At the time of autograph this columnist captivated beneath than $75 of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.