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Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC, block 57043, four days nobody took it

September 17, 2026 by Nakta

Cover image for an article on Bitcoin Pizza Day. Under the line that two pizzas cost ten thousand coins and that nobody wanted the deal for four days, a diagram shows the payment as recorded in the ledger: a block of 131 inputs drawn from one address, including a dense cluster of very small pieces, an arrow, and a single output of ten thousand coins with a thin sliver marked as the fee left behind. Beside it the block number and date are given with notes that the record is still in the ledger, that anyone can open it, and that the coins left again ten minutes later split in two - Cryptonakta

Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC, block 57043, four days nobody took it Two pizzas, ten thousand coins, and four days when nobody wanted the deal. The payment is still in the ledger, so this article reads it directly instead of retelling the story. Read from the public ledger and an archived copy of the original … Read more