The Forgotten Side of Bitcoin Pizza Day

When I picked up my order at a pizza place today, the girl behind the counter asked me whether my order had anything to do with Bitcoin Pizza Day.

At first, I thought she guessed because of the number of pizzas I ordered - there were two of them. But it turned out that earlier that day, three different customers had already told her the story about "that unlucky guy" who paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas 16 years ago. She wanted me to know she could actually keep up a conversation about it because she already knew the story.

And honestly, that surprised me.

Ever since I read Ross Ulbricht's essay "Bitcoin Equals Freedom" (see the screenshot), I've seen the seller, not the buyer, as the real hero of that story. To me, Bitcoin Pizza Day is about the fact that someone once got incredibly lucky and received 10,000 bitcoins in exchange for two pizzas. I never expected that so many people celebrating this day would see it more like some kind of "fool's day."

It's a shame how often people focus only on the negative side of things.

Anything that has a downside usually has an upside too. And the Bitcoin pizza story actually has two of them. The first is that someone received 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. The second is that Bitcoin was used as money for the very first time.

And if today you exchange something for bitcoin on rabbit.io, then maybe 16 years from now I'll be happy for you too - not just for the guy who once gave two pizzas for 10,000 BTC.