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To: FLT-bird

I don’t think a single merchant I trade with would accept crypto. They’re all old coots like me.


7 posted on 07/05/2026 4:41:28 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy

On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made history by paying 10,000 Bitcoin for two large Papa John’s pizzas, marking the first commercial transaction ever made using cryptocurrency. At the time, those 10,000 coins were valued at roughly $41, but today they are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Some of those merchants would have been a lot better off today if they had accepted payment in Bitcoin 16 years ago.


12 posted on 07/05/2026 5:49:57 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: ComputerGuy

“ I don’t think a single merchant I trade with would accept crypto. They’re all old coots like me.”

Maybe not old coots , just common sense!


23 posted on 07/05/2026 10:17:43 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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