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From $41 to $1.1B: Bitcoin Pizza Day Now a Billion-Dollar Meme

From $41 to $1.1B: Bitcoin Pizza Day Now a Billion-Dollar Meme

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Coindesk
Published:
2025-05-22 07:16:57
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Bitcoin ‘Pizza’ Day is Now a $1.1B Celebration

What started as a joke—10,000 BTC for two pizzas—now marks crypto’s most delicious irony. The original $41 splurge would be worth over $1.1 billion today.


Hodl the pepperoni

Early adopters who ’wasted’ BTC on real-world goods now watch their hypothetical fortunes soar—while Wall Street still scrambles to tokenize lunch receipts.


A slice of perspective

Fifteen years later, that pizza purchase clocks a 26,829,150% return. Even Goldman Sachs can’t spin that as ’volatility’—just pure, unfiltered FOMO fuel.

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