
Bitcoin Pizza Day was supposed to be a celebration of crypto utility, but instead it was dampened by a flurry of new pizza-themed memecoins that swindled thousands of dollars from investors.
Every May 22, many crypto and Bitcoin faithful celebrate the anniversary of when, in 2010, a computer developer named Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin, a sum now worth more than $260 million.