Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day.
Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Baudriallard used to say: Let’s add the milk of data to the cereal of understanding!
Bitcoin Price
We closed the day, October 5 2019, at a price of $8,151. That’s a minor 0.71 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$58.64. It was the lowest closing price in five days.
We’re still 59 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017).
Bitcoin market cap
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Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $146,529,229,668. It now commands 67 percent of the total crypto market.
Bitcoin volume
Yesterday’s volume of $12,200,497,197 was the lowest in nineteen days, 21 percent below the year’s average, and 72 percent below the year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 252 tons of gold.
Bitcoin transactions
A total of 326,525 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 2 percent below the year’s average and 27 percent below the year’s high.
Bitcoin transaction fee
Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $0.12. That’s $3.59 below the year’s high of $3.71.
Bitcoin distribution by address
As of now, there are 11,893 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin.
Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 5.6 percent of the total supply, the top 100 14.5 percent, and the top 1000 34.3 percent.
Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin
With a market capitalization of $147 Billion, HSBC has a market capitalization most similar to that of Bitcoin at the moment.
Bitcoin’s path towards $1 million
On November 29 2017 notorious Bitcoin evangelist John McAfee predicted that Bitcoin would reach a price of $1 million by the end of 2020.
He even promised to eat his own dick if it doesn’t. Unfortunately for him it’s 92.7 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin’s price should have been $112,178 by now, according to dickline.info.
Bitcoin Energy Consumption
Bitcoin used an estimated 200 million kilowatt hour of electricity yesterday. On a yearly basis that would amount to 73 terawatt hour. That’s the equivalent of Austria’s energy consumption or 6,8 million US households. Bitcoin’s energy consumption now represents 0.3% of the whole world’s electricity use.
Bitcoin on Twitter
Yesterday 13,536 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 28.1 percent below the year’s average. The maximum amount of tweets per day this year about Bitcoin was 41,687.
Most popular posts about Bitcoin
This was yesterday’s most engaged tweet about Bitcoin:
SEC: “we disagree with your conclusion that bitcoin is a security. We think that conclusion is incorrect under both the reasoning of SEC v. Howey and the framework that the staff applies in analyzing digital assets.” https://t.co/nRtwHnUM0c
— The Block (@TheBlock__) October 5, 2019
This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:
I love when I see one of These bad boys. Bitcoin ATMs pretty much everywhere I go nowadays in the Detroit Area. Gas stations and fast food restaurants are all joining in. from r/Bitcoin
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