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 Machiavelli used to say: Do what you love and you’ll never work another day!
Bitcoin price
We closed the day, January 08 2020, at a price of $8,079. That’s a minor 1.00 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$82.07. It was the lowest closing price in one day.
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 $146,645,162,431. It now commands 69 percent of the total crypto market.
Bitcoin volume
Yesterday’s volume of $31,672,559,265 was the highest in twenty days, 87 percent above the year’s average, and 29 percent below the year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 637 tons of gold.
Bitcoin transactions
A total of 317,877 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 2 percent below the year’s average and 29 percent below the year’s high.
Bitcoin transaction fee
Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $0.35. That’s $3.36 below the year’s high of $3.71.
Bitcoin distribution by address
As of now, there are 11,897 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin.
Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 5.8 percent of the total supply, the top 100 15.2 percent, and the top 1000 34.9 percent.
Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin
With a market capitalization of $147 Billion, NVIDIA 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 95.4 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin’s price should have been $177,482 by now, according to dickline.info.
Bitcoin on Twitter
Yesterday 20,820 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 14.5 percent above 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 one of last day’s most engaged tweets about Bitcoin:
Bitcoin fans are getting very excited about the prospect of fewer Bitcoins https://t.co/snIbDzgh1l
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) January 8, 2020
This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:
Australian Bushfires: Bitcoin exchange donates $1 million to the cause – Decrypt from r/CryptoCurrency
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