Primordial NFT? Someone tried to sell a JPEG for BTC months before Bitcoin Pizza Day
The seller even got help from Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, though it's still up in the air whether the artist actually made the "sale." Crypto Twitter was briefly set ablaze on May 14 with a suggestion that the world’s first real-world purchase made by Bitcoin may have been for a JPEG, not pizza. In a tweet from independent developer Udi Wertheimer, the Bitcoin advocate shared a screenshot showing what could have been the first-ever purchase using Bitcoin — even predating the infamous Bitcoin Pizza. This Twitter Space was FIRE We discovered that: the first purchase EVER with bitcoin was buying a JPEG for 500 BTC in Feb 2010 it pre-dates the the famous 10,000 BTC pizza satoshi himself helped facilitate the JPEG sale laser-eye cult in absolute SHAMBLES pic.twitter.com/b6ESOkbf0i — Udi Wertheimer ️ (@udiWertheimer) May 14, 2023 The posted screenshot is dated Jan. 24, 2010, a full four month s before Bitcoin Pizza Day — where Bitcoin developer Laszlo Hanyecz ...