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✨Let's learn a bit more about this day of celebration for BINANCE!!!🎉
🍕Why do we celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day? 🎉
🔸Reasons👇✨
▫️Main Bitcoin Pizza Day celebrates the first real Bitcoin transaction, made 13 years ago.
▫️A programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC from another user on the BitcoinTalk forum on May 22, 2010.
▫️For this year's Bitcoin Pizza Day, on May 22, Binance will celebrate in style with online and in-person events around the world.
▫️Nowadays, when Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have an incredible number of use cases, we celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day to remind ourselves of the humble beginnings of cryptocurrencies.
🍕What is Bitcoin Pizza Day? 🔸✨
First, let's clarify some facts. Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated annually on May 22 and commemorates the anniversary of the first real Bitcoin transaction. On that same day in 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. At that time, they were worth only about $30. And today? That value has skyrocketed to approximately $260,000,000.
🍕Why is Bitcoin Pizza Day important? 🔸✨
This transaction is considered a crucial moment in Bitcoin's history, as it demonstrated that cryptocurrency could be used for real-world transactions and sparked great interest in the potential of blockchain technology.
Bitcoin Pizza Day is important for the cryptocurrency community because it serves as a reminder of Bitcoin's beginnings and the progress we have made since then.
It highlights the evolution of technology and the growth of the community that has developed around it.
It also serves as a reminder of the need to continue innovating and improving technology to make it more accessible, user-friendly, and widely adopted.
In summary, Bitcoin Pizza Day celebrates the potential of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to transform the way we think and interact with money.
🍕How does Binance celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day? 🔸✨
Over the years, Bitcoin Pizza Day has become a tradition at Binance.
In 2021, Binancians collected ingredients to win a share of $52,200 in BTC. In 2022, CZ, our CEO, was baking pizza in our temporary store in Cannes, France, where a lucky winner who bought or made a Hawaiian pizza (CZ's favorite) won a year's supply of this classic Italian dish!