On May 14, Crypto Twitter was briefly ignited by suggesting that the world’s first real-world purchase made with Bitcoin might be a JPEG rather than a pizza.
In a tweet from indie developer Udi Wertheimer, the bitcoin advocate shared a screenshot showing what may be the first-ever purchase made with bitcoin even before the infamous bitcoin pizza. The posted screenshot is dated January 24, 2010, a full four months before Bitcoin Pizza Day when Bitcoin developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas, widely considered the first Real-world purchases made with Bitcoin.
The screenshot shows a user named Sabunir trying to sell an image for 500 bitcoins (worth about $1 at the time) on the bitcoin forum Bitcointalk. It even highlighted that the pseudonymous Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto was trying to get involved to help close the sale.
However, that claim has been called into question, with a tweet from professional poker player turned cryptocurrency investor Mike McDonald pointing to a screenshot suggesting the Bitcoin transaction may have been a donation, meaning JPEG never actually "Sold" too.In a subsequent tweet, Wertheimer acknowledged that his original tweet may have been inaccurate, saying that while Sabunir did list the JPEG for sale at 500 BTC and they received the same amount a month later, “it’s possible that 500 BTC was used as a donation for different interactions” and the JPEG sale never actually took place.
It’s unclear what the 500 BTC was for without Sabunir’s own confirmation, Wertheimer said. The rumors come on the heels of the Bitcoin Ordinals phenomenon, which at the time of publication had seen more than 6.1 million images, videos and even tokens via the BRC-20 token standard minted on the Bitcoin blockchain. Wertheimer has been a leading advocate for Bitcoin NFTs since Casey Rodamor created the Ordinals protocol on January 21 of this year, which allows users to “write” new data on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Since then, Wertheimer has been working to bring a new wave of NFT enthusiasts to Bitcoin with a project called Taproot Wizards for Ordinals, named after the Taproot soft fork that first implemented the Ordinals protocol. create.
