Over the years since it's release, Bitcoin has been the first and most successful as well as promising crypto currency.starting from the year 2009 of it's creation by Satoshi NAKAMOTO it has been the king of the crypto verse.below are a couple of milestones achieved by the Bitcoin network as well as some facts.
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First Bitcoin transaction receivedThe first ever Bitcoin received was received by
Hal Finney whom was one of the earliest adopter and supporter of the Bitcoin network.
He received about 10 Bitcoins from Satoshi NAKAMOTO on the 12th of January 2009.This transaction was included in block 170.with the hash ID;
f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16 .It is also regarded as the first P2P transaction on the Bitcoin network.
First block minedThe first ever mined block is known as the GENESIS BLOCK it was mined by Satoshi NAKAMOTO on the 3rd of January 2009
HERE are details about the hash .It is also referred to as the starting block.
First hodlerUsing the definition of hodling which means to have Bitcoins in your wallet, the first ever Bitcoin hodler was Satoshi NAKAMOTO.However it was shortly after the lunch of Bitcoin the term
HODLING came into play.The word Hodl was first used by
GameKyuubi in
THIS POST which was actually a mis spelling of HOLD , however since then HODL has been used uniquely for Bitcoin to describe having Bitcoin in your wallet.
First miner everSatoshi NAKAMOTO was the first miner on the Bitcoin network since he mined the first block ever( The Genesis block )his mining reward was 50 Bitcoins for the first block.
Largest block ever minedThe largest Bitcoin block( block
#774,628)ever mined had a size of about
3.96Mb which was very close to the Bitcoin block limit of
4Mb which is achieveable by using SEGWIT.The block contained the Ordinal "Taproot wizard".
First Bitcoin purchaseThe first ever recorded purchase made with Bitcoin was done by
laszlo on the 22nd of may 2010.In this post
Pizza for bitcoins? laszlo requested to purchase some pizza in exchange for 10,000 Bitcoins of which he did for 2 Pizzas making it one of the most expensive purchases in Bitcoin currently although at that time 1 Bitcoin was only valued at about $0.003.
Highest price attained by Bitcoin (ATH)As at November 8 2021, Bitcoin reached a peak value of about
$67,567 making it's market cap hit a value of about
$1.29 trillion . During this period there was about 18.9 million Bitcoins in circulation.since then Bitcoin has attained other large values like according to statista;
- Oct 2021 ---> $61,837
- Mar 2021 ---> $58,668
- Nov 2021 ---> $57,848
- Jul 2021 ---> $41,936
How ever none has exceeded $67,567 so it is regarded as its ATH.
First Bitcoin addressThe first ever Bitcoin address is known as the GENESIS ADDRESS. It is owned by the creator of Bitcoin Satoshi NAKAMOTO it contains about 50 Bitcoins which was mined from the very first block ever on the Bitcoin network known as genesis block.the legendary address is 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa. However Satoshi is said to have about 1.1 million Bitcoins in over 22,000 addresses this he accomplished by using a new address for every block he mined to keep his anonymity.
