A famous U.S.-based pizza chain has begun accepting cryptocurrency payments in all its stores in Venezuela.

According to a Nov. 27 tweet from crypto services house CryptoBuyer, Pizza Hut stores in the Due south American nation now take crypto equally a grade of payment for food and drinks. The motility follows the crypto firm partnering with Mega Soft to bulldoze adoption in Venezuela by facilitating crypto payments at more 20,000 shops and businesses.

"Pizza Hut nowadays cannot be detached from these technological advances and all those incorporating new approaches for daily necessities," said Richard ElKhouri, General Director for Venezuelan operations of the pizza concatenation, in an interview with local news outlet ElAxioma. "It is important that we adjust young people, modern adults, and people technologically knowledgeable."

Using CryptoBuyer, customers can buy pizza at the restaurant chain with Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Dash (DASH), Binance Coin (BNB), Binance USD (BUSD), Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT), Dai (DAI), and its native token XPT. Pizza Hut has locations in the capital, Caracas, as well in the cities of Maracay, Maracaibo and Barquisimeto.

Based in Panama, Cryptobuyer is a cryptocurrency merchant gateway startup that besides runs Bitcoin ATMs across Central and South America. The business firm has already opened popular companies for crypto payments, including U.South.-based fast food bondage like Burger Rex, the Tamanaco Intercontinental Hotel in Caracas, and Traki, the largest chain of retail stores in the country.

Bitcoin's beginnings get hand-in-hand with the American staple dish, as the first documented commercial purchase using the cryptocurrency was an order for ii pizzas. On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz completed the get-go documented commercial Bitcoin purchase, paying 10,000 BTC — now worth roughly $181 meg — for a Bitcoin Talk forum user to ship him two pies from a Papa John'south store in the United States.