On this day in history, 16 years ago, a developer created a website giving away 5 bitcoin for free to anyone, anywhere. The ‘faucet’ only required a user to complete CAPTCHA, verifying you were not a bot, and distributed 19,700 bitcoin in total, worth more than $1 billion today.
This year globally, computers mining for Bitcoin calculated the SHA-256 math algorithm the same amount of times it would take to count every single grain of sand on Earth four billion times.
Total Estimated Bitcoin Network Hashes in 2025:
28,382,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x
This is a map of the public Bitcoin network. Each dot represents a computer (node) that holds a complete copy of the blockchain and verifies transactions.
A never before seen full visual timeline of Bitcoin’s blockchain, mapping every transaction and event. Because Bitcoin’s ledger is public and open source, every moment shown here is drawn directly from data anyone on the internet can independently verify.
BREAKING: U.S. interest payments on outstanding public debt are going parabolic, exceeding spending on national defence.
They will fix this with the money printer. It may make sense to get some #Bitcoin, just in case Bro
Only 5% of Bitcoin’s total supply left to be mined
That’s 1.05M BTC spread across the next 114 years for 8 BILLION people
Greatest asymmetric bet in history 🔥🟧
#Bitcoin Adoption:
2010 - Only computer geeks
2013 - Only drug dealers
2014 - Only money launderers
2017 - Only gamblers
2020 - Only one business
2021 - Only one country
2024 - Only ETFs
2024 - Only U.S. Presidents
2025 - Only one Central Bank
Can you spot the pattern?
In the Colombian League Final, 39 year old Hugo Rodallega was in tears after he could barely walk during the final 10 minutes of the game.
Play then resumed and he only went and scored the winner for Santa Fe…👏
bitcoin is bearer censorship-resistant money. no one likes spam, nor wants to see illegal content. however there are inherent fundamentals all internet protocols and programming languages are governed by.
THE SIGNAL EVERYONE IS IGNORING:
BITCOIN HAS NOW CLOSED 206 DAYS STRAIGHT ABOVE $100K.
THE LONG-TERM TREND IS LOCKED IN.
ACCUMULATION NEVER LOOKED THIS OBVIOUS.
THE FLOOR IS RISING.
THE DAY “BUY BITCOIN” WENT MAINSTREAM
On July 12, 2017, $BTC traded at just $2,330 -- and someone held up a “BUY BITCOIN” sign right behind Fed Chair Janet Yellen during her live testimony before Congress.
He was escorted out. Bitcoin never looked back. 🔥