PizzaDAO partners with local pizzerias to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza

PizzaDAO is sponsoring more than 100 local pizzerias from 75 countries to give away free pizza to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22.

PizzaDAO will use the revenue from its Rare Pizzas project to fund the event. The Rare Pizzas collection contains 10,000 generative baked pizza NFTs created by more than 300 topping artists around the world.

The biggest supporters of PizzaDAO are Cheech and Chong, Seth Green, Steve Aoki and 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani, and many others who also join and promote the event. The event will raise funds for several charities.

Gemignani commented on the event and said:

It has been a great collaboration with PizzaDAO and we are looking forward to helping to pizza the planet on 522-22! I love that pizza can help so many people charity, hospitals, firefighters, or just your neighbour. Everyone loves pizza and we are happy to be involved. The world's largest pizza party will take place in popular spots in London, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, the streets of New York in Little Italy, the San Francisco Temple Nightclub and the 99th floor of Willis Tower.

PizzaDAO was founded in February 2021 with the idea that pizza should be free and accessible to all. The project leverages Web 3 tools that bring capital and allow inclusion to support independent businesses, especially local pizzerias, to scale up.

Snax, the founder of PizzaDAO, said:

The project has more than 400 pizzerias in its network and has spent more than $400 thousand providing free pizza since its establishment.

On May 22, Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated every year to remember Laszlo Hanyecz, who paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two large pizzas in 2010.

Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, was an early Bitcoins miner. On May 18, he posted on a forum and offered 10,000 Bitcoins in exchange for two large pizzas. Even though 10,000 Bitcoins were worth $41, which was too much for two large pizzas, Hanyecz still followed up with his offer and bought two large pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoins.

Even though Hanyecz issued the first Bitcoin payment in history, the amount he paid is around $290 million, even after the recent market fall.