3 piping hot Pizza Day facts for Bitcoin connoisseurs

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Bitcoin Pizza season is back.

This Sunday will mark 15 years since early adopter Laszlo Hanyecz first posted his historic, cheesy request to Bitcointalk: Pizza for bitcoins?

Hanyecz boldly offered to pay 10,000 BTC to anyone who could deliver two large pizzas — two, “so I have some left over for the next day. I like having leftover pizza to nibble on later.” 

Those coins were worth about $42 at the time and more than $2 billion today, enough to make your stomach grumble! 

In many ways it was the most important transaction in Bitcoin’s history, even to this day. As Laszlo…

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