CHART: The price of BTC on every Bitcoin Pizza Day
It’s Bitcoin Pizza Day, the day when the crypto community comes together to celebrate the first “real-world” bitcoin (BTC) transaction. Back in 2010, Bitcoin OG Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC (worth $1.1 billion today) on two pizzas from Papa John’s. In honour of the occasion, Protos has catalogued the price of BTC on May 22 every year since that day. You can view the chart here . Bitcoin price at all-time high while other metrics at lows Read more: The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development If you saved $41 worth of BTC bought on May 22 in either 2012, 2013, or 2014, you’d now have $908,000, $36,000, and $9,226, respectively. If you were to pay the same $41 price today, you’d need to use 0.0003703 BTC instead of 10,000 BTC. BTC’s price has risen by nearly 2.8 billion percent since that famed pizza purchase, and today it hit an all-time high of $111,544.” The bitcoin purchase was also big for Papa John’s, which tried to ...