TOP 5 curiosities about CRYPTOCURRENCIES
The Bitcoin "halvings": Every four years, the number of new bitcoins generated by miners (and as a reward for validating transactions) is reduced by half. This event is called a "halving" and impacts the price and supply of the currency.
There are "lost coins": It is estimated that a large amount of Bitcoin has been permanently lost due to people forgetting their private keys or accidentally destroying their digital wallets.
Ethereum can "program" smart contracts: Unlike Bitcoin, which is just a digital currency, Ethereum allows for the creation of smart contracts, which are self-executing programs that do not rely on intermediaries.
The Bitcoin "White Paper": The document that describes Bitcoin was published in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. It is considered the theoretical foundation of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
Bitcoin had a famous "first purchase": In 2010, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, in what is known as the first recorded purchase with the cryptocurrency.
