Some Fun Crypto Facts!!

in #bitcoin7 years ago

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  • In January 2017 Bitcoin accounted for 80% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. In January 2018, it accounts for only 35% of the cryptocurrency market cap

  • Chir Larsen, the cofounder of Ripple (XRP), became the world’s fifth wealthiest person as the price of Ripple soared past the 3$ mark earlier this week.

  • There are about 1500 cryptocurrencies with 43 of them having a market cap over $1billion.

  • Bitcoin’s finite supply of 21 million is expected to be reached around the year 2140, with 12.5 new Bitcoin’s mined every about 10 minutes.

  • If you bought 1$ worth of Bitcoin in April of 2013, when one Bitcoin went for $0.001USD you would have $1.7million by now.

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Really mindblowing how far cryptocurrencies have come! Awesome post!

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bitcoin was not .001 in 2013. But is was back in 2009/10.

I zoomed into the graph that they show on tradingview for poloniex and its what it was selling for on poloniex i am not sure about other exchanges but thanks for the information

Ah. Must be an error on their graph. I can guarantee poloniex was not trading Btc at .001 in 2013.

Cool info! I like learning trivia like this! Keep it coming!

Nice facts, waiting for the next ones!

thanks your post! have a nice day

Cool facts! keep it up

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