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 Pasteur used to say: Yolo!
Bitcoin price
We closed the day, August 16 2020, at a price of $11,892. That’s a minor 0.22 percent increase in 24 hours, or $26. It was the highest closing price in three hundred and seventy-three days.
We’re still 40 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017).
Bitcoin market cap
Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $219,576,092,170. It now commands 60 percent of the total crypto market.
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Bitcoin volume
Yesterday’s volume of $20,583,375,490 was the lowest in six days, 9 percent below last year’s average, and 72 percent below last year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 328 tons of gold.
Bitcoin transactions
A total of 284,917 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 10 percent below last year’s average and 37 percent below last year’s high.
Bitcoin transaction fee
Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $1.04. That’s $2.87 below last year’s high of $3.91.
Bitcoin distribution by address
As of now, there are 18,950 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin.
Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 4.9 percent of the total supply, the top 100 14.2 percent, and the top 1000 34.8 percent.
Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin
With a market capitalization of $224 billion, PayPal 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 97.7 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin’s price should have been $516,019 by now, according to dickline.info.
Bitcoin energy consumption
On a yearly basis Bitcoin now uses an estimated 65 terawatt hour of electricity. That’s the equivalent of Czech Republic’s energy consumption.
Bitcoin on Twitter
Yesterday 29,007 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 42.8 percent above last year’s average. The maximum amount of tweets per day last year about Bitcoin was 82,838.
Most popular posts about Bitcoin
This was yesterday’s most engaged tweet about Bitcoin:
4 of South Korea’s Largest Banks to Provide Cryptocurrency Services https://t.co/V1CNQvP9Gr pic.twitter.com/C54lmPmlRN
— Bitcoin News (@BTCTN) August 16, 2020
This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:
Max Keiser taunts Warren Buffet, saying he will buy bitcoin at $50,000 as the Berkshire Hathaway billionaire offloads banking stocks to buy Gold from r/Bitcoin
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