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: Shop ’till you drop!
Bitcoin price
We closed the day, March 19 2020, at a price of $6,191. That’s a major 18.03 percent increase in 24 hours, or $945. It was the highest closing price in seven days.
We’re still 69 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017).
Bitcoin market cap
Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $113,162,079,956. It now commands 66 percent of the total crypto market.
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Bitcoin volume
Yesterday’s volume of $51,000,731,797 was the highest in five days, 153 percent above last year’s average, and 31 percent below last year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 1053 tons of gold.
Bitcoin transactions
A total of 265,582 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 18 percent below last year’s average and 41 percent below last year’s high.
Bitcoin transaction fee
Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $0.86. That’s $2.84 below last year’s high of $3.71.
Bitcoin distribution by address
As of now, there are 9,973 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin.
Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 5.7 percent of the total supply, the top 100 15.0 percent, and the top 1000 34.9 percent.
Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin
With a market capitalization of $112 Billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific 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 97.5 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin’s price should have been $250,073 by now, according to dickline.info.
Bitcoin Energy Consumption
Bitcoin used an estimated 186 million kilowatt hour of electricity yesterday. On a yearly basis that would amount to 68 terawatt hour. That’s the equivalent of Czech Republic’s energy consumption or 6,3 million US households. Bitcoin’s energy consumption now represents 0.3% of the whole world’s electricity use.
Bitcoin on Twitter
Yesterday 29,033 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 56.4 percent above last year’s average. The maximum amount of tweets per day last year about Bitcoin was 75,543.
Most popular posts about Bitcoin
This was one of yesterday’s most engaged tweets about Bitcoin:
If historical correlation data is a reliable indicator, #Bitcoin's recent positive correlation with the S&P 500 may be temporary: https://t.co/2A1IV0eT3Y
— Coinbase (@coinbase) March 19, 2020
This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:
Bitcoin advocate and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey just had his application to launch Square Financial Services Inc. approved by the FDIC. from r/CryptoMarkets
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