First purchase with Bitcoin turns eight years

Last Tuesday marked the eighth anniversary of the first purchase made with bitcoins: two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. At the time of the first purchase of pizza, the most important cryptocurrency was worth only a few cents.

Laszlo Hanyecz, the first buyer of the pizzas, became a legend among the early Bitcoin miners. Today, he is known as the man who squandered a number of assets that are currently valued at $ 82 million.

At that same price around 6.5 million pizzas of $ 12.50 each could be brought.

According to the ElFinanciero.com, Bitcoin Pizza Day has become a celebration of how much the price of cryptocurrency has soared, even after falling from its record earlier this year.

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