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Bitcoin Pizza Day Highlights Rise of Meme Cryptocurrencies and Suspected Fraudulent Activity

On Bitcoin Pizza Day, suspected fraudulent developers were able to make tens of thousands of dollars by taking advantage of the interest of gullible members of the cryptocurrency community in meme cryptocurrencies.
The largest tokens created in the last four days, BTCPizza, BPizza, PizzaDay and EthPizza, have accumulated a market capitalization of more than $300,000.

The team behind memcoin BPizza quickly changed the sales tax to 100% in one day on May 22, which meant: investors would not be able to sell it.

EthPizza simply disabled the sale and transfer of the token shortly after reaching a market capitalization of $38,000.

The BTCPizza token was still trading on May 24 with a market capitalization of nearly $200,000. The price of the token is down 16% from its high of May 23.

On May 22, 2010, Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz became the first bitcoin holder to risk using the cryptocurrency to buy a real item: two pizzas at Papa John’s.

Enthusiast paid for the purchase of 10,000 BTC, which then equaled $40. After 13 years, the value of these BTCs reaches $268 million.

PEPE meme token became popular in early May.

However, the rate of this “HYIP meme-coin” collapsed by 47% a few days after the token rate increased by 45% and its capitalization exceeded $1 billion.

The owners of another meme token, Milady got rich by $20 million after Ilon Musk s tweet;

The Romanian crypto-enthusiast and investor celebrated the 13th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day in an unusual way – he bought ten thousand pizzas for 1.01 BTC (approximately $27400).