5 Most Interesting Bitcoin Facts

5 Most Interesting Bitcoin Facts

1- Bitcoin Creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is Still a Mystery Figure

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the person who designed bitcoin but there’s still doubt about the real identity. Satoshi Nakamoto, is the world's most elusive billionaire. When it reached a high of $19,771, Bitcoin made the creator of the cryptocurrency the 44th richest person on the planet – if you go by Forbes’ list

2- Pizza was the First Thing (good) Purchased Using Bitcoin

After the first bitcoin transaction took place between Satoshi and Hal Finney in 2009, the first recorded purchase was made for buying pizza worth $25. To do so, 10,000 bitcoins were spent. Because of that May 22 is Bitcoin Pizza Day

3-Bitcoin network is much powerful than supercomputers

According to the experts, Bitcoin networks has a computing power of 2,046,364 Pflop/s. This is my personal favorite fact about bitcoin. If you go ahead and combine the computing power of the 500 most powerful supercomputers, you’ll get a combined fever of 274 Pflop/s.

4-The FBI has one of the world’s largest bitcoin wallets

When the FBI shut down the operations of the Silk Road, it also seized the owner’s assets. In that process, the FBI also became one of the world’s wealthiest bitcoin owners, A report from the Wired magazine claims that the FBI controls as much as $120 million.

5-Bitcoin has been sent into outer space

In 2016, Genesis Mining, a bitcoin cloud mining provider, set bitcoin to space. This was done using a 3D bitcoin model and a bitcoin paper wallet, which were tied to a weather balloon. The whole journey was recorded using a GoPro focused on the model and wallet. Once the weather balloon reached a height of 20 kilometers, the ground team made the transaction to paper wallet. Another transfer was made to the wallet once it achieved the maximum possible altitude of 34 kms.

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