Bitcoin Pizza Day Is Now a $1.1B Celebration

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Bitcoin (BTC) Pizza Day is here and it just got its most fitting tribute yet: a new all-time high. Bitcoin surged past $111,800 early Thursday, setting a fresh record. 15 years ago on this day developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas, then worth roughly $40. The May 22, 2010, purchase marked the first recorded commercial transaction using BTC, a turning point that took the asset from cypherpunk code to actual currency. That same 10,000 BTC can buy over 70 million pizza...