Crypto Fact of the Day: Lost bitcoins are permanently locked. It is estimated that up to 20% of BTC are irretrievably lost due to forgotten passwords and lost wallets. This makes the remaining coins even more valuable.
Crypto Fact of the Day: The Bitcoin blockchain weighs over 600 GB. Each block is a new page in the history book of BTC, and this entire "novel" now weighs more than a laptop's hard drive.
Crypto fact of the day: The first cryptocurrency was not Bitcoin. In 1998, programmer Wei Dai proposed the concept of "b-money" — a decentralized digital currency. However, it was never implemented. Bitcoin emerged 10 years later.
Crypto Fact of the Day: In 2010, two pizzas were bought for 10,000 BTC. Today, 10,000 BTC ≈ 990,000,000 dollars. This makes that pizza the most expensive in history — almost a billion!
The date of the transaction — May 22 — is now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day in the crypto community. Who knew lunch could cost a future yacht?