Created fifteen years ago today, this website gave out 5 entire bitcoin for free to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
The ‘Bitcoin Faucet’ only required a user to complete CAPTCHA verifying you were not a bot and distributed 19,700 bitcoin in total worth $2 billion today.
Billionaire @RichardBranson, founder of 400+ companies across industries like telecommunications, travel, hospitality and spaceflight, reads Bitcoin books.
Bitcoin successfully achieved its 900,000th block mined in an unbroken cryptographic chain of every payment since the first. Each new block locks fresh pages of data to all that came before, backed by gigawatt-scale proof-of-work that drives the cost of any rewrite ever higher.
Greenpeace and Ripple commissioned the ‘Skull of Satoshi’ a few years ago as part of a campaign against Bitcoin mining. To their surprise, Bitcoin users liked the sculpture and today it is now displayed and promotes the world’s largest Bitcoin conference.
The day Steak n’ Shake began accepting bitcoin payments, one in every 500 bitcoin blockchain transactions happened at a Steak n’ Shake location, estimates the company’s Chief Operating Officer.