​​Try topping this: PizzaDAO celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day with 100 parties worldwide

Pizza DAO, the decentralized blockchain task seeking to unite the planetary assemblage of pizza fanatics with the technological imaginable of Web3, are celebrating Sunday's Bitcoin Pizza Day successful authentic style.

On May 22, the task volition big commemorative events astatine 100 pizzerias successful implicit 75 countries astir the world, including the United States, Argentina, South Korea, Ethiopia, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and more.

Alongside a nonfungible token (NFT) driblet and charitable campaign, the events volition pull a fig of supporters including 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani, Seth Green, Steve Aoki, the Dogecoin team, and comedians Cheech and Chong, among others.

Bitcoin Pizza Day has go a imperishable fixture and taste item successful the crypto calendar since the 2017 bull marketplace resurrected and glorified the communicative of misfortune from the blockchain archives.

On the 22nd May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz’s published a 153-word station connected the Bitcoin Talk connection committee requesting for idiosyncratic to either location navigator and deliver, oregon simply prime up 2 ample pizzas from a adjacent takeout, stating:

“I'll wage 10,000 bitcoins for a mates of pizzas.. similar possibly 2 ample ones truthful I person immoderate near implicit for the adjacent time [...] If you're funny delight fto maine cognize and we tin enactment retired a deal.”

The Jacksonville, Florida autochthonal was precise peculiar astir his topping requirements, writing: "I similar things similar onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc.. conscionable modular worldly nary weird food topping oregon thing similar that. I besides similar regular food pizzas which whitethorn beryllium cheaper to hole oregon different acquire."

User ender_x trying to persuade Hanyecz that his wealth could beryllium amended spent elsewhere, stating: "10,000... Thats rather a bit.. you could merchantability those connected https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/ for $41USD close now.."

But Hanyecz was persistent successful his endeavour, and yet 7 hours aboriginal successfully traded 10,000 Bitcoin (BTC) for the pizzas. A "great milestone reached" 1 idiosyncratic replied.

At the clip of writing, astir 12 years to the day, that pizza transaction is worthy $298 million.

Source: Laszlo Hanyecz

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Hanyecz’s communicative financially epitomises the parabolic maturation of Bitcoin and the full assemblage crossed the past decade, but speech from its amusement and comedic value, for galore marketplace participants, it represents the necessity for humility and appreciation, arsenic good arsenic condemnation successful aboriginal adoption. 

Cointelegraph spoke to Snax, the laminitis of PizzaDAO, for a broader penetration into their intentions and ambitions successful celebrating the monumental day: 

"Web3 is an accidental to reinvent our fiscal realities connected satellite earth, to physique consensus, and to imagination big. What amended mode to signifier worldwide teamwork than to propulsion a planetary pizza enactment together?"

PizzaDAO volition question to bring "local autarkic businesses on-chain" done the utilization of their open-source Pizzanomics crowdfunding model. A procreation nonfungible token (NFT) postulation denoting antithetic variations of pizza boxes released by Rare Pizzas volition money the events.

The task was precocious featured in Cointelegraph’s Market Report by Benton Yaun, the originative pb astatine CT Studio, arsenic 1 of the 5 astir salient decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) successful the space.

American histrion Seth Green, known for starring successful movies specified arsenic Austin Powers and The Italian Job, arsenic good arsenic being the dependable of Chris Griffin connected Family Guy among different producing and penning roles, is an advocator of PizzaDAO and volition beryllium 1 of the event's astir influential supporters.

In speech with Cointelegraph, Green excitedly stated that: “I’m each for things that bring radical together, and pizza is 1 of those things. Helping propulsion a planetary pizza enactment that everyone tin share? I’m present for it!"