Bitcoin Pizza Day 2025, Keene, NH
Thanks to the Shire Free Church Bitcoin Pizza Day 2025 Keene edition was a roaring success despite the rain and we’re doing it again for 2026! Last year we got our Little Zoe’s Pizza to go with most paying in one form of cryptocurrency or another. Our plans for May 22, 2026 Bitcoin Pizza Day Keene edition will be the same. If it rains the Shire Free Church has agreed to host our backup location at: 73 Leverett Street in Keene, New Hampshire (go around to the back of the building as there is a large room for events).
If the weather is good we’ll be outside Little Zoe’s at their outdoor tables:
Location: 149 Emerald St #5, Keene, NH 03431
Date & Time: Friday, May 22nd, 2026 @ 4:20 PM
Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrated annually on May 22, commemorates the first real-world commercial transaction using Bitcoin, which occurred on May 22, 2010. Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz posted an offer on the Bitcointalk forum to pay 10,000 BTC for two large Papa John’s pizzas, a sum worth only about $41 at the time but valued in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars today. The order was fulfilled by fellow user Jeremy Sturdivant, who accepted the cryptocurrency payment and delivered the food, marking a pivotal moment that proved Bitcoin could function as a medium of exchange for tangible goods.
Crypto users gathered at Little Zoe’s Pizza in Keene for Bitcoin Pizza Day 2019.
For libertarians this isn’t about “value go up”, like it became for some percentage of those who came later. No, it’s about the principles and morals. It represents and enables: Freedom, control, privacy. The later of which Bitcoin isn’t, but unlike fiat currencies (government money and the associated systems of banking, money transmission, etc) it does retain a pseudonymous property compared to fiat in a bank account in that a user does not need to register their identity to merely utilize it. However it enabled the people to gain real control of the money in their pocket, that is something government couldn’t easily step in and steal, was always just the first step. Later came cryptocurrencies like Monero that added stronger privacy mechanisms.
