Seven things You might not know about Bitcoin

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* The first commodity bought with BTC was pizza. It happened on May 22, 2010, and one user of a cryptocurrency forum paid another to order him two pizzas. 10 thousand BTC.

* Transactions in Bitcoin are not fully anonymous, the public address of the buyer's cryptocurrency wallet is visible.

* There will be only 21 million Bitcoins in total.

* The creator of Bitcoin is one big puzzle. Known to everyone under the code name Satoshi Nakamoto, his true identity remains undisclosed.

* The FBI has the thickest bitcoin wallet.

In September 2013, the FBI closed the online drug "silk route", seizing more than 144,000 bitcoins owned by the operator of the illegal internet market. At the current market value of bitcoin against the US dollar, the FBI's bitcoin wallet would be worth up to $ 502,533,020.95.

* The biggest deal ever. In 2013, a transaction for 194,993 bitcoins was made, which was then equal to 1.6% of the total amount of units of this cryptocurrency available on the market. The value of the transaction, converted into the US dollar currency, was $ 147 million.

* Bitcoins could be obtained for free.

At the beginning of their existence, Bitcoin was known only in a small group. Those who were the first to mine virtual coins gave them away as part of the promotion. Gavin Andresen even created a site where you could pick up free Bitcoins. Anyone who wanted could get 5 BTC. If he lasted 10 years, he had half a million zlotys for a few clicks.

 

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