Bitcoin
The OG Cryptocurrency
Random Facts
- If you bought $100 of gold and $100 btc in December of 2011, the gold would be worth $102, the bitcoin would be worth $1.7 Million (December 2021, Messari)
- bitcoint does 300k settlements/day vs 800k/day for Fedwire, but bitcoin settlements are often batched so bitcoin network is already probably clearing more transactions (December 2021, Messari)
- In the US we falir the equivielnt of 150TWh/day, that is over 8x as much energy as the BTC network uses in a year (December 2021, Messari)