It's Bitcoin Pizza Day
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day to all who celebrate. Celebrate what, you might ask?
Hanyecz has said in interviews since that fateful day that he has no regrets, the
Sun
reports.
I wanted to do the pizza thing because to me it was free pizza," he once explained,
that he wrote a program allowing him to mine Bitcoin using a computer graphics card
"I mean, I coded this thing and mined Bitcoin and I felt like I was winning the internet that day.
I got pizza for contributing to an open-source project. Usually hobbies are a time sink and money sink
my hobby bought me dinner." He also once said, "I think if it wasn't me, somebody else would have come along.
It was the first documented purchase made using the then-nascent cryptocurrency.
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