Best mental reset I’ve learned: If your mind is loud — Write. If your mind is empty — Read. If your mind is racing — Walk. If your mind is tired — Sleep. If your mind is sharp — Build. Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
One man wants to excavate a landfill to get his digital wallet back 😇😇😇😇
In 2013, James Howells, who lives in Wales, U.K., threw out a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins on it. When he realized how much the value of Bitcoin had shot up in recent years, he went looking for the drive. Now, he's trying to get his local city council to allow him to excavate the landfill in an attempt to find the drive. He's claiming to offer a portion of the proceeds if the city allows him to look through the trash.
The first commercial bitcoin transaction was for pizza: 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕💥💥💥
👉👉On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 bitcoins (BTC) for two pizzas. This is generally recognized as the first bitcoin transaction for a commercial purpose. At the time, 10,000 bitcoins were worth about $40, making one bitcoin worth a little less than half a cent. If you had that number of bitcoins in September 2022, you'd be a bitcoin millionaire. 10,000 bitcoins have a market value of more than $190 million.
👉The mining of Bitcoin has proved a lucrative industry for many – and, as such, is vastly competitive. And while various state regulations have hit the industry, as well as environmental concerns, the number of Bitcoins in circulation continues to grow. Current estimates place the number of new Bitcoins created every day at 900. This is based upon the amount of time taken for the complex algorithmic puzzles that underpin the mining process to be solved. We’ll talk more about the time taken to mine a Bitcoin below.