Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff

Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff – Yup Folks – Ever since I started to get inquiries on Personal Branding through Bitcoin Miners & Bitcoin Holders, I started to wonder – what in the world is this Bitcoin Thingy? So given that I have no idea what Bitcoin is – I decided to do some research myself and find out what exactly is a Bitcoin. So here is my research. Let me know if I am right, not right or if I need to change any information.

Loy Machedo

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Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff
Bitcoin Timeline

2008 – Bitcoin was founded by Satoshi Nakamoto
2010 – Two Pizzas were purchased for cost 10,000 Bitcoins.
2011 – A physical Bitcoin was being marketed by a company in USA. Got shut down by the US Treasury.
2013 – SatoshiDice was the 1st Bitcoin acquisition with 126,315 Bitcoins
2013 – Nakowa won 11,000 BTC on a gambling site.
2013 – James Howell lost 7,500 Bitcoins because he destroyed his Hard Disk.
2013, More than 200 Businesses held a Bitcoin “Black Friday” sale event
2013, A man in New York put up his house for sale for Bitcoins
2014 – Mt. Gox got hacked of its Bitcoins
2013, Thailand banned Bitcoin
2013, China banned banks from trading in Bitcoins
2013 – A journalist from Bloomberg was given a Bitcoin on live TV by one viewer and it was promptly stolen by another viewer.
2014, FPS, Switzerland, Belgium & CBT Findland exempts Bitcoin transactions from VAT
2016, Bank of Thailand suggested it is not illegal
2015 to 2017 – Bitcoin Transaction fees went up by 1300%
2015 – only 800 citizens filed taxes on Bitcoin income
2016 – Mt. Gox lost $2.4 Trillion of its creditors money
2016 – a Bitcoiner accidentally sent $137,000 instead of $5. He never got it back.
2017 – CryptoCompare Yen accounts for 45% of Bitcoin Buying
2017 – The Bitcoin Market Cap is 15 Billion
2017 – Bithumb gets hacked of its Bitcoins
2017 – Japan officially recognized Bitcoins
2017 – There are 1,450 Bitcoin ATM’s in 55 countries
2017 – Argentina & Zimbabwe sees flood of bitcoins
2017 – Arrests in Russia, Nepal, Bolivia & Greece over Bitcoin Fraud
2018 – Chiasso, Switzerland will accept taxes in Bitcoins
2140 – The 21 Million Bitcoin limit will expire

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Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff

Money Facts of Bitcoin

4,000 times is the energy consumed to mine one Bitcoin versus one single credit card transaction
10,000 USD is the value of a bitcoin as of 30th November 2017
200,000 is the lowest amount of Bitcoin Transaction which have been used per day
300,000 stores in Japan accept Bitcoin.
$1 Million was made by Alphabay Phispher and Phishkingz by stealing Bitcoins
16.5 Million Bitcoins are in circulation.
40 Million USD was raised from Google & Richard Branson by Blockchain – a Bitcoin wallet
$75.88 Billion value of Bitcoin market share today

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Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff

Percentage Statistics of Bitcoin

1.5% is the total number of all the World’s Bitcoins by the FBI
19.74% is General bytes Bitcoin ATM producers market share making it the 2nd largest ATM producer
35% of the total Bitcoin is held by the top 1,000 Top Bitcoin Holders
48.5% Genesis Coin is Bitcoin ATM producers market share making it the largest ATM producer
with and with are the biggest Bitcoin ATM producers
65% of the Bitcoins may never be used.
70% of banks have participated in experimenting with Bitcoins
75% is the amount of the World’s Bitcoin ATM’s North America has

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Shocking Bitcoin Facts, Timeline, Statistics & Shocking Stuff

Companies that accept Bitcoins