The team behind Bitcoinplay.net has made an outstanding infographic that illustrates 62 interesting facts about Bitcoin covering 9 years of history. It all started after Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper on October 31, 2008, called: “Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system“. Much has happened since then.
Did you know for example...
- Did you know two pizzas were sold for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010?
- Did you know $100 dollar invested in July 2010 is now worth over 6 million US dollar?
- Did you know the FBI owns 1.5% of the world's bitcoins?
- Did you know the top 1000 bitcoin addresses control 34% of total BTC in circulation?
- Did you know the cold wallet of Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex contains 143,234 BTC (over 1 billion USD)
- Did you know in the USA only 802 citizens have filed taxes on Bitcoin income in 2015?
- Did you know Chinese mining pool Antpool mined around 20% of all blocks between 2016-2017?
- Did you know the number of Bitcoins rewarded for mining halves every 4 years?
- Did you know the 21 million Bitcoin limit is expected to be reached in the year 2140?
- Did you know there are 1,402 Bitcoin ATM's worldwide in 55 countries?
Infographic via BitcoinPlay.net.
