Happy Birthday Bitcoin!
Fun Facts For Bitcoin’s 12th Birthday
It was 12 years ago today, January 3, 2009, that the first cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – was “born,” the result of the very first block being mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Here is the price of Bitcoin on its birthday every year, going back to the beginning:
2009 $0
2010 $0.01
2011 $0.29
2012 $5
2013 $13
2014 $797
2015 $302
2016 $429
2017 $1,021
2018 $14,944
2019 $3,827
2020 $7,238
2021 $34,200
Next year Bitcoin enters its “terrible teens” attaining teenager status by reaching the ripe old age of 13. Will Bitcoin be acting up like a typical teenager?
Time will tell…
12 Facts For Bitcoin’s 12th Birthday
1. Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, is still a mystery figure.
2. The late Hal Finney, a software engineer and one of the first PGP coders, was the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction.
3. Pizza was the first thing (good) purchased using 10,000 Bitcoin (worth more than $330 million today!).
4. May 22 is known as “Bitcoin Pizza Day.”
5. Bitcoin has been sent into outer space.
6. A bitcoin transfer is irreversible.
7. The domain name “Bitcoin.org” was registered on August 8, 2008.
8. A man named James Howells threw away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins, now worth more than $247 million dollars.
9. Roughly 10% of Bitcoin’s supply has been untouched for over a decade.
10. The first Bitcoin faucet was created by Gavin Andresen in June of 2010, and visitors to that faucet were given 5 full Bitcoins each (worth more than $165,000 today).
11. The gold bug Peter Schiff predicts that Bitcoin will never top $50,000.
12. We think he’s wrong.
