It's quite famous that the world's first Bitcoin payment is two pizzas, right?
On May 18, 2010, a programmer who was a Bitcoin forum user,
He posted that if you send him two pizzas, he'll give you 10,000 Bitcoin.
Four days later, the deal is successful and you will receive this pizza right away.
It was recorded as the first bitcoin-to-kind transaction.
At that time, 10,000 Bitcoin was about $41, and now it's about $890 million, and it's well over a trillion won in our money.
At that time, the price of two pizzas was around $30.
Starting at this time, the virtual asset industry is celebrating May 22 by calling it "Pizza Day."
Bitcoin, I should have bought it in advance! There are so many people who regret it these days.
Attention is also being paid to countries that have implemented cryptocurrency-friendly policies since early
.
Latin America's El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as the world's first fiat currency in 2021.
President Bukele, who pushed for a pro-cryptocurrency policy, said, "Thank you for selling it cheaply even when the price of Bitcoin fell to $15,000 in 2022.
I will buy 1 bitcoin every day in the future," he said, adding,
As a result, after two years of losses from 64%, earnings are now around 90%.
"We expect Bitcoin to top $100,000 by the end of the year," some experts said.
On the other hand, there is caution that the honeymoon between Trump and the mayor will not last very long.
[Lee In-cheol/Economist commentator (NewsNow): If you look at former President Trump's pledge, most of them are going to make a warm iced Americano. Can you get rid of the price while releasing money? It is impossible to control prices while lowering interest rates. Because if immigrants are expelled, labor costs will inevitably rise due to a lack of labor. In addition, imposing a tariff bomb globally will inevitably cause relatively greater prices and inflation for U.S. consumers, but if it becomes a reality, these asset bubbles will be extinguished.]
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