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Bitcoin Pizza Day: The $1.2 Billion Meal That Remade Money

Bitcoin Pizza Day: The $1.2 Billion Meal That Remade Money

NM team May 21, 2026

A $41 pizza order in 2010 morphed into the most expensive lunch in human history. That single transaction now haunts markets and defines the very soul of Bitcoin. This is not just a quirky origin story, it is a brutal lesson in vision, patience, and the punishing pace of digital scarcity.