Fun Crypto Facts
Cryptocurrencies aren’t all serious and money-making machines. There are 100s of crypto memes, fun facts, and odd parts to the cryptocurrency sphere. Some of the things you read today may be something you’ve seen before and some things will come up making you think “No way!! Did this really happen?” So let’s get started with this list of top 7 crypto fun facts.
Fun Fact 1 — The Half a Billion Dollar Pizza
In May 2011 Laszlo Hanyecz purchased his Papa John’s pizza using BTC as the currency. It was one of the first real-world transactions to occur where bitcoin was swapped for a back then great-tasting pizza. Today that pizza is a bittersweet memory. The pizza cost a whopping 10,000 Bitcoin back in 2011. However, that didn’t cost bitcoin’s price was extremely low and very much unknown as a currency during those times.
In today’s market if you wanted to buy a $20 Papa John’s pizza you’d pay around 0.000041 BTC. If you were to spend how much Laszlo Hanyecz on his pizza in 2021 you’d have paid 490 million on 12 slices of bread and cheese. With the Bitcoin bull run in full steam expect that number to go even higher.
So the moral of this fun crypto fact is to hodl your cryptocurrencies that are worth nothing because one day they could make you a multi-millionaire because you don’t want to be listed on all the best crypto memes and fun facts about Bitcoin pages one day in the distant future.
Fun Fact 2 — Bitcoin’s Creator is Unknown
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