Where Can You Buy Pizza With Bitcoin?

Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated annually by the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community - marking an important, yet comical milestone for the virtual currency.

The moment is immortalized online in a Bitcointalk.org forum, where a programmer called Laszlo Hanyecz confirmed that he'd bought two pizza for 10,000 BTC from Papa John's Pizza in America.

Eventually a teenager named Jeremy Sturdivant, nicknamed Jercos, accepted the Bitcoin and sent Hanyecz two pizzas from Papa John's.

At the time, as pointed out by another user in the thread, 1 Bitcoin was worth around 0.0041 meaning Hanyecz' 10,000 BTC were worth a lowly $41. Today, the original value of a single Bitcoin pizza, $20.5, would cost you 0.0025 BTC, a staggering display of how much the value of the cryptocurrency has grown in the space of 8 years.

Can I buy pizza with Bitcoin today?Services like PizzaForCoins, which was founded in 2013, accept various cryptocurrencies as payment, and then place orders on behalf of customers online.

Egifter also offer customers an gift card that can be bought with Bitcoin - allowing users to then order pizza online through Domino's Pizza and Papa John's.

A website called Bitcoinrestaurants has a database of 83 locations where you can settle your bill using Bitcoin.

Yes, it's a big dealOn the surface, Bitcoin Pizza Day seems like a fun, quirky day for the crypto community to celebrate.

Once again, Hanyecz's pizza purchase is hailed as the first ever Bitcoin transaction for real-world goods, paving the way for the use of the cryptocurrency by users around the world.

Hanyecz statement is reminiscent of his 2010 experiment - where he was simply wanted to "Say that I paid for a pizza in Bitcoins".