10 Fun Facts About Bitcoin:
⚡1. Bitcoin was released on January 3, 2009, by a person using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, and it has been 15 years since.
⚡2. The total supply of Bitcoin is capped at 21 million coins, and it will never increase; over 19 million coins have already been mined.
⚡3. On May 22, 2010, a programmer bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins, a transaction now known as 'Bitcoin Pizza Day'.
⚡4. Bitcoin reached its all-time high price in November 2021, with a single coin exceeding $68,000.
⚡5. Bitcoin's price is highly volatile, with increases or decreases of over 10% within a day not being uncommon.
⚡6. The electricity consumed by Bitcoin mining each year is roughly equivalent to the total electricity consumption of Argentina.
⚡7. It is estimated that about 20% of bitcoins are permanently unusable due to lost private keys or other reasons, amounting to 4.2 million coins.
⚡8. The smallest unit of Bitcoin is called a 'Satoshi', with 1 Bitcoin equal to 100 million Satoshis.
⚡9. Although Bitcoin transactions are anonymous, all transaction records are publicly stored on the blockchain and can be traced.
⚡10. There are approximately over 100 million people worldwide who hold Bitcoin, spanning multiple countries and regions.
