The history of digital assets is famously topped with pepperoni. On May 22, 2010, a developer named Laszlo Hanyecz made the first commercial Bitcoin transaction by trading 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas. At the time, those coins were worth about $41. Today, as Bitcoin hits record highs, those same pizzas would be worth a staggering $739 million, approximately. In a refreshing nod to this legacy, Mastercard recently took to the streets to show that while the prices have changed, the process is getting much simpler. In a video shared on X, Ben Fox Rubin and Sebastian Oddo of Mastercard visited a small business ... (full story)