Punxsy Pizza provides pizza parties for local organizations World Pizza Day

PUNXSUTAWNEY — Punxsy Pizza provided local area organizations with pizza parties last Thursday in honor of World Pizza Day, also known as Bitcoin Pizza Day. According to information provided by Sandy Rothman, of Pizza DAO, Laszlo Hanyecz made the very first transaction with Bitcoin, trading 10,000 Bitcoin for two large pizzas. Ever since, the

Bitcoin community marks the occasion, sharing a few slices of pizza on the day. According to Rothman, now that Bitcoin is reaching widespread adoption, they wanted to share the day with the public at large.

“Because pizza is a public good, not to mention the best food in the known universe. We believe there’s a pizza distribution problem, not a pizza scarcity problem!” Rothman said.

She said they sell rare digital pizza art to raise money to throw a global pizza party. To date, they have raised over $1 million for the cause. Using the proceeds from their art sale, Rare Pizzas purchased more than $300,000 worth of real, edible pizza that was given away by pizzerias around the world last Bitcoin Pizza Day in 2021.

Pizza DAO reached out to the World Pizza Champions to help promote the day. Rothman said Punxsy Pizza owner Scott Anthony was excited to participate, as the community was coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Punxsy Pizza donated their entire allotment of pizza to the Punxsutawney Area Community Center to help them as they opened their doors back up to various activities. Anthony, treasurer for World Pizza Champions, distributed funds from Pizza DAO to 79 pizzerias across North America and Spain

in 2021.

In 2022, Anthony distributed funds to participating team members, and hosted several pizza parties for community organizations including: WPXZ, the Allegheny chapter of Trout Unlimited, Team Stello of the U8 Soccer League, CNB Bank, Perry Township Volunteer Fire Company, Troop 245 Boy Scouts, and at the Punxsutawney Spirit. According to Rothman, Punxsy Pizza served up over 400 slices of pizza for free for World Pizza Day, courtesy of Pizza DAO/ www.rarepizzas.com.

Anthony said he was glad to participate.

“This is such an exciting event to participate in and I am so glad to bring this to our community,” Anthony said.

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