bitcoin, n.Trivia

The figure known as Satoshi Nakamoto had 980,000 Bitcoin in his wallet when he disappeared, making him one of the richest people on the planet.

Bitcoin was invented in a white paper published in 2009 by an unknown figure, Satoshi Nakamoto who vanished off the internet in 2010.

Losing your Bitcoin address means losing all the Bitcoins in your wallet.

Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador

Around 20% of Bitcoin (3.8 million BTC) has been lost forever; either lost or stuck in wallets that can't be accessed.

A $41 Papa John's pizza order was the first commercial Bitcoin transaction. It was for the now-ungodly large sum of 10,000BTC.

If Bitcoin miners were a country, they would rank 61st in the world in terms of electricity consumption.

Bitcoin is deflationary by in its very structure. Around 8 million bitcoin have been lost. When someone loses their password, thus locking up the coins forever, they make the coins still in circulation more scarce and thus more valuable.

The FBI owns one the largest Bitcoin wallets, which it took from the Silk Road, black market website; around 1.5% of all world's Bitcoin.

The smallest unit of Bitcoin is a 'Satoshi' (in honor of the Bitcoin founder). 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 Satoshis

There are more than 7,300 cryptocurrencies as of November 2021

The last Bitcoin will be mined in 2140. Only 21 million Bitcoin can ever be produced, as the number of Bitcoins that can be mined gets halved every four years.