Very interesting facts about bitcoin

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym of the creator Bitcoin. The whole world is lost in riddles about his real personality. Satoshi created Bitcoin in the 2008th year. Every day there are about 3,600 new bitcoins. Coins appear as a result of a process called "mining." The first Bitcoin transaction took place on January 21, 2009. Satoshi transferred 100 BTC to another dialer and a cryptographer named Hal Finney. A lot of attempts were made to reveal the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, but so far without results. The last version caused a lot of excitement, but was quickly disproved. For 5 years, the price of bitcoin increased from $ 0 to $ 1000. The very first million bitcoins were produced personally by Satoshi and, apparently, still belongs to him. Researchers are still trying to find Nakamoto's wallets to get out on his trail, but Satoshi remains calm. In 2140, the last Bitcoin will be mined.21 million - this is the maximum number of bitcoins that will ever be mined. To date, about 12 million have been extracted. The extraction algorithm reduces the number of found coins by 2 times every few years, so the process is uneven. Attempts were made to create the physical equivalent of Bitcoin (in the form of a coin). In fact, Casascius is nothing but "cold wallets" with a holographic access key code printed on them, only cast in the coin form factor. It is Casascius coins that we see on all these beautiful photos with "coins" Bitcoin. The island island jurisdiction Alderney also announced its plans for coining the physical equivalents Bitcoin. Only 36% of the volume of coins that were extracted were seen in any transactions. The remaining 64% after its appearance so far have not been used. In contrast to physical money, the entire history of moving any sums from one account to another is permanently sealed inside Blockchain - a global distributed and absolutely open database containing data about all Bitcoin-purses of the world. In the current code Bitcoin 77 thousand lines of code, 70 thousand of them are written in the programming language C ++. And in the very first working version behind the number 0.1.0 was just 14 thousand lines of code in C ++. This is a very small project by modern standards. For example, there are more than 15 million lines of code in the Linux kernel code. The Bloomberg journalist, who is not familiar with Bitcoin's security rules, inadvertently showed the private key (in the form of a QR code) of his Bitcoin purse on the air. For which he immediately paid - his funds were stolen by one of the spectators, but then, according to rumors, the money was returned to the journalist. A UK resident named James Howells, inadvertently, threw out a hard disk with a key from the purse on which (and, apparently, Still is) 7500 bitcoins. This is approximately $ 5 million at the current rate. When the WikiLeaks states were cut off from donations by bank transfers under the pressure of the states, the site instantly switched to receiving donations in bitcoins. A guy from Norway named Christopher Koch, in 2009 bought bitcoins for $ 27 and forgot About them, and when he remembered, his investment went up to 886 thousand dollars. The first bitcoin-ATM was installed in the Canadian city of Vancouver. The University of Cyprus became the first university in the world to accept payment for Bitcoin. In our country, this can be considered the highest school of directors and scriptwriters in St. Petersburg. Thailand became the first country in the world to ban Bitcoin (but already allowed back). The biggest drop in the Bitcoin rate by 80% in 24 hours occurred in April 2013. In September 2013, someone mixed up the input fields for the amount and encouragement for the transfer and as a result sent 0.01 BTC, paying 80.99 BTC per transaction (about $ 50 thousand) .After information about the sharp increase in inflation, the popularity of Bitcoin sharply increased in Argentina. Any games of central banks with national currency rates promote growthPopulation in the savings of means using crypto-currency. For example, the Kazakhs were even asked to be patriots and not to rule in Bitcoin. In November 2013, Bitcoin's price exceeded the price of gold for the first time. A year after the Bitcoin project was launched, 1 BTC could be bought for 4 cents. The first commercial success of Bitcoin can be considered Silk Road. On this site, working in the network TOR, you could buy various prohibited goods, drugs and weapons. Bitcoin, thanks to its anonymous nature, was the only means of payment inside the Silk Road. Russ Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, existed under the network alias Pirate Roberts. At one time, this pirate was famous for having been inconsistent for a long time. About 5% of all the bitcoins that existed at that time were rotating inside the Silk Road business. It is believed that the authorities managed to confiscate only 20% of all the bitcoins in purses controlled by Ulbricht. The keys to access to the remaining 80% of the funds appear to be in a safe place. After arresting Ulbricht, and confiscating the funds, the FBI became the owner of the largest purse in the world. 927 people own 50% of all bitcoins. Lamborghini became the first automobile company in the world , The dealers began to take Bitcoin. Sycycraft Airplanes became the first to sell the aircraft for bitcoins. The person bought in 2010 for bitcoins, according to today's rate would cost $ 5 million. Mel B from the group Spice Girls became the first star of show business, taking bitcoins for the show Lenie. And our stars, meanwhile, do not even know everything about e-mail. Beetles will soon be able to fly into space. More than 200 million dollars - that's the amount of money used in Bitcoin's transactions every day. The turnover of the network Bitcoin recently exceeded the turnover of Western Union. At the current capitalization of 8 billion dollars, Bitcoin is only slightly inferior to the annual GDP of a country like Estonia. In addition to Bitcoin, there are already more than 150 different crypto-currencies. Everyone can now create their own crypto currency. Bitcoin can be earned simply by playing Counter Strike. The largest prize fund in the history of Starcraft 2 was also collected thanks to Bitcoin. The largest number of active nodes in the network Bitcoin is in the US, which is by far ahead of its closest competitors - Canada, Europe and China.