10 Curiosities about Bitcoin that you did not know

In this article I will show you 10 curious facts about the queen of all the cryptocurrencies that you probably did not know.

Cover of the Times03/01/2009 ------ Fuente

1. In January 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto launches the Bitcoin network creating the "Genesis Block", the first entry in the Bitcoin distributed accounting registry. The code includes the following text: "The Times 03 / Jan / 2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.", Making reference to the headline of the Times newspaper of that day, ironically also recalls the crisis of the world banking system to which Bitcoin intends to replace.

2. The first bitcoin address used is 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa which was used by Satoshi Nakamoto on 09-01-2009 in the Genesis block, many users have continued to send funds to that address (1,160 transactions) and currently have a total of 66.75613049 BTC ($ 775,156.83).

3. The first transaction sent by Bitcoin (not counting the mining rewards) was made in block 170, the person who received the funds was Hal Finney on 01/12/2009 just a few days after the creation of the Genesis block.

4. According to a study by ChainAnalysis between 17% and 23% of all Bitcoin are lost, totally inaccessible to having lost or forgotten their private key (approximately 39.610 million dollars).

5. The first purchase using Bitcoin was made in May 2010, a user paid 10 thousand Bitcoins (currently $ 117 million) to buy two pizzas.

6. Many users have used the private key corresponding to number 1, in hexadecimal 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 And have sent funds to that address to both the compressed address 1BgGZ9tcN4rm9KBzDn7KprQz87SZ26SAMH (24 transactions) as when uncompresed 1EHNa6Q4Jz2uvNExL497mE43ikXhwF6kZm (1200 transactions) , most of the time they are users performing tests but the hackers empty them in a matter of seconds.

7. The following numbers 2,3 and 4 (compressed and uncompressed) have also been used; 5,6 (uncompressed), 7,8 (compressed and uncompressed), 9 (compressed), 10 (uncompressed), 11 (compressed and uncompressed), 12 (uncompressed), 13 (compressed), 14,15,16 (uncompressed).

8. The number 17 is the first number whose compressed or uncompressed address has not yet been used.

9. The private key corresponding to the number 1,000,000 generates the uncompressed address 1KrVYJezsECzuYCcNpoa6hMuvEDsjx9mtH which has already been used (4 transactions), the uncompressed addresses corresponding to 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000,000 have also been used.

10. The private key corresponding to the number 666 (the number of the beast) generates the uncompressed address 178PowSuDGk6NTzgsoFbeXQH5w6Gn4d2Xm which has already been used (4 transactions), some Satanist wanted to make his mark on the bitcoin blockchain.

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