Austin, Texas – May 20, 2026 – In celebration of Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22, Unrestricteda Bitcoin-based financial services company founded in 2016 by Joe Kelly and Dhruv Bansaland Bitcoin Park They host special screenings for “New rules for bitcoin,“A short film produced in partnership with brand studio The Atlantic Atlantic Re: ThinkIn ten major American cities. The film highlights three key ideas: Bitcoin is not what you think it is, Bitcoin is long-term thinking, and Bitcoin is real property. These ideas lay the foundation for setting Bitcoin apart from other cryptocurrencies, with its unique combination of long-term wealth preservation and direct, collaborative custody.
On May 22, 2010, a programmer paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two large pizzas to be delivered to his home in the first documented real Bitcoin transaction. That’s worth around $760 million today, highlighting Bitcoin’s astonishing rise to become a mainstream global asset.
Shows will be running this week on Fort WorthKansas City on Friday, 5/22, at 7 p.m Buffalo State Pizza Company, chicago, Washington, DC, Portland, nashville, Austin, Tampa BayLexington, KY on Friday, 5/22, at 6 p.m Goodfellas Pizza. With the new rules of the Bitcoin Roadshow, Unchained and Bitcoin Park are outfitting local meetups with a free demo deck, discussion primer, and pizza sponsorship for the first 100 meetups — bringing the Bitcoin story to communities face-to-face, just like the original Pizza Day.
“Bitcoin Pizza Day is a reminder that adoption happens peer-to-peer,” he said. Jonathan SextonCommercial Director at Unchained. “Every new Bitcoin user has been brought, at some point, by another Bitcoin trader. We made this film with The Atlantic to give the community a tool to share Bitcoin with a new audience, and to help people who are still unsure about Bitcoin to give it another look. The roadshow is a platform to help bring in the next wave of adopters.”
“Since 2022, we’ve seen in-person meetups bringing new people into the Bitcoin ecosystem, one meetup after another,” he said. Rudy Rudyco-founder of Bitcoin Park. “Bitcoin education is at the heart of most of the meetups, and this time it’s backed by a really great new film. Grassroots word of mouth is how Bitcoin spread in the first place, and it’s how it will continue to spread.”
This Pizza Day, Unchained is waiving the first trading fee on all new retirement accounts created before June 1st that transfer from any cryptocurrency competitor. To learn more, book a consultation with one of Unchained’s US Bitcoin experts here.
About unrestrained
Unchained is a Bitcoin financial services company, founded in 2016 by Joe Kelly and Dhruv Bansal, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company has built its services around collaborative custody, a multi-signature architecture in which customers hold their private keys while Unchained provides the financial infrastructure around them. Since its first Bitcoin-backed loan in 2017, Unchained has originated over $1 billion in loans, raised over 100,000 BTC on its platform, and reported no capital losses.
The company offers treasury, IRA accounts, business office, business loans, inheritance planning, and premium consulting service to individuals and businesses. Its Bitcoin IRA is the only retirement account on the market that gives customers direct control of the keys. In 2025, Unchained acquired a Wyoming Trust charter through its subsidiary Gannett Trust, expanding its fiduciary and wealth advisory capabilities.
Unchained’s open source Caravan wallet remains publicly available as an independent tool, independent of any commercial relationship with the company. To learn more, visit unchained.com.
About Bitcoin Park
Bitcoin Park is a community-supported campus founded in 2022 with locations in Nashville, Tennessee and Austin, Texas. Its mission is to support and accelerate the grassroots freedom technology movement by creating a home for mission-driven bitcoiners, builders, and freedom fighters to work, learn, collaborate, and build.
Programming runs on three Freedom Technology tracks—AI, Energy, and Bitcoin—across meetings, workshops, and summits spanning custody and treasury, energy and mining, grassroots adoption, healthcare, payments, policy, and more.
AI Freedom Lab anchors the AI trail – a Bitcoin Park initiative that develops sovereign, collaborative, and decentralized infrastructure so anyone can build on their own terms.
Imagine IF, a summit of summits, is held in Nashville the first week of October each year – a call to action for dreamers, builders and believers to shape the world we want to live in, where artificial intelligence and energy converge in service of human flourishing and creative optimism. Each “Imagine If…” talk plants a seed for what is possible when bold imagination meets human action. To learn more, visit imagineifnashville.com
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