Miami (EFE) ” (1,000 million dollars), the Argentine Silvina Moschini.
To the creators of bitcoin, “my deep respects, because they really did something with a huge impact that is going to change the entire industry,” said Moschini, founder of another cryptocurrency, unicoin, which is backed by assets, in a statement to EFE on the occasion of the “Bitcoin Pizza Day”.
bitcoin and celebration
One of the biggest festivities on the “crypto” calendar and remember that on May 22, 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz, a Florida-based programmer who mined bitcoin as a hobby, decided to transfer 10,000 units to a forum participant to buy him two pizzas.
Until then, bitcoin was an experiment known to techies that had almost no value.
The first known cryptocurrency trading page exchanged 1,309 bitcoins for one dollar in 2010, but over the course of the next two years, the first cryptocurrency became recognized as a means of payment and by 2013 it was already trading at $350 per unit, Moschini remembers.
Today a bitcoin is exchanged for just over $26,000, which is less than half its maximum value, which until now has been $69,000, due to the crisis that broke out in the crypto market in 2022 due to various frauds and scandals.
Even so, the 10,000 bitcoins that Hanyecz paid for his pizzas today means 260 million dollars, says Moschini, co-founder of the startup TransparentBusiness, created in 2008 to facilitate remote work, which went from being worth 100 million dollars in 2019 to reach one billion dollars in 2020.
The lesson of “Bitcoin Pizza Day” is, for the Argentine entrepreneur, that, as in 2010, investing early in cryptocurrencies can give extraordinary long-term benefits, but now you have to look for some security.
Moschini points out that cryptocurrencies are gaining ground at a time when inflation is causing fiat currency to fall in value and are an option against gold whose inventory is limited.
A paradigm shift
“Bitcoin Pizza Day” takes place shortly after the Bitcoin 2023 conference, a three-day conclave that brought together some 13,000 people in Miami Beach, including industry leaders, investors and politicians, to discuss the developments of this digital token, the most widespread.
“I think bitcoin is an incredible tool for political change, and that it’s not just going to change the United States but every country,” with positive effects for ordinary people, David Bailey, executive director of BTC Inc., organizer of the rally, told EFE. conference.
Despite the ups and downs of cryptocurrencies, especially after the fall of the FTX platform in 2022, Bailey is optimistic to the point of ensuring that “bitcoin is the earthquake that changes the paradigm of the trajectory of humanity in the future” and that will reach a price of “billions of dollars” in the coming decades.
Moschini warns that the industry “is not going to be just bitcoin”, that in addition to being decentralized and unrelated to government regulatory bodies, it is faithful to its own principles. “There will be for different risk profiles and different areas,” he added.
“We believe that the trend is going massively towards regulated cryptocurrency models, which have a containment framework so that there are no scams,” said Moschini, whose Unicoin, he said, takes “the best of the traditional financial world.”
In its little more than a first year Unicoin has sold more than 475 million dollars to individual and corporate investors in more than 100 countries. The figure corresponds to the pre-sale of Unicoin, since it has not yet been tokenized, something that is expected towards the end of this year.
“Imagine what an illusion, to be Latin American and that we can create a product like this,” said the Argentine. The same illusion of Hanyecz for being part of the history of cryptocurrencies, as the young programmer has pointed out in past interviews.
