Thread by @esatoshiclub

Happy 14th birthday, #Bitcoin!🥳

1/11 In honor of this milestone, here are 10 interesting facts about the world's first and most well-known cryptocurrency:

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2/11 #BTC has been profitable for 3,750 days, or 83% of its existence

Relative to today's price, if you bought before November 2020 you're likely in profit, as per this chart:

3/11 A total of 19,248,459.375 BTC entered in circulation

This is roughly 91.66% of the entire supply ever, which is 21 million coins

4/11 More than 259,912 #BTC have been paid as transaction fees

The chart of transaction fees is below. As one can see, the fees were ever high during 2017's run.

5/11 The average transaction time has been 7.39 minutes!

The transaction times were higher, as expected, in the bull runs.

6/11 #Miners had revenue of roughly $47,671,422,165

The revenue chart is plotted below and, once more, we see the peaks coincided with the runs!

7/11 The average cost per transaction has been $38.66

This is dividing the miner's revenue by the number of transactions. It is not the cost of the user sending a transaction, but rather the cost of the transaction in the network:

8/11 #BTC reached over $1T in market capitalization

On Oct 2021, the market capitalization reached its peak of roughly $1.25 trillion USD dollars. This is more than half of #Apple's current capitalization and more than the whole #crypto scene's current one:

9/11 The #blockchain started growing exponentially somewhere in 2015 and currently has roughly 450 GB

It was in 2015 that the inflection point of the exponential growth of the blockchain happened. Its growth has been almost like a straight curve ever since:

10/11 In 2010 there was a #Bitcoin exploit that shortly increased its supply to 184 billion coins

This happened on block 74,638. The culprit is still unknown!

11/11 #Bitcoin has inspired the development of many other #cryptocurrencies, known as #altcoins, but it remains the most well-known and widely used.