9 important facts about bitcoin

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Bitcoin cryptocurrency recently on everyone's lips. Investments in this currency were the most profitable in recent years, its growth is measured in thousands of percent. Bitcoin is not under the control of any government, and you can get it yourself if you use powerful computers. Magazine Entrepreneur gathered 11 facts you probably don’t know about this cryptocurrency.

1. Bitcoin will soon be 10 years old

The idea of ​​creating bitcoins belongs to a person under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto (it is possible that this is a group of people). It was first published in the 2008 year. Bitcoins are considered to be 3 January 2008 of the year. Then 50 coins were first created. Satoshi left the project in 2010 and disappeared.

2. The creator of cryptocurrency is still unknown

Journalists are wondering who is behind the personality of Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2014, the magazine Newsweek suggested that this is a resident of California Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, but he strongly denied it. In 2015, the Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright said that he was the author of bitcoin, but could not prove it. In 2017, a former employee SpaceX suggested that cryptocurrency came up with Ilon Musk. But he also disowned Bitcoin. But whoever is the creator of the currency, he is now very rich with high probability.

3. The first purchase for bitcoins was pizza

The first transaction using Bitcoin was performed on 22 on May 2010. Then programmer Laszlo Haniec bought pizza for 10 000 bitcoins. On 7 December 2017, this amount is equivalent to 8,6 billion rubles.

4. You can already buy goods and services on bitcoins.

You can buy some things on Bitcoins, for example: apartments, islands, airline tickets, pizza and much more.

5. The US government is very unprofitable sold their bitcoins

In 2013, the US government temporarily became one of the largest Bitcoin holders. FBI Officers Access Site Silk Roadwhere people could buy drugs and other prohibited substances and services. The site owned 144 000 bitcoins (124,1 trillion rubles). Most of this amount was sold to private investors.

6. Bitcoin can crash dramatically

Cryptocurrency not only grows rapidly, but can seriously collapse in a few hours. For example, in 2013, the rate dropped from 1112 to 727 dollars, in November of 2017, it collapsed from 7442 to 5637 dollars.

7. Billionaires against bitcoin

According to the largest private investor, Warren Buffett, it is better to stay away from Bitcoin. At the executive director JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimona such an opinion: “Business is not built on currency out of thin air. All this will end badly. ” Businessman Mark Kyuban also believes that the cost of bitcoin is too high. But at the same time, he invested part of the money in a fund that supports cryptocurrency.

8. Even teens buy bitcoins

Twin businessmen Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (known by the court with Mark Zuckerberg) bought 2013% of existing bitcoins for 1 million dollars in 11 in the year. As soon as the price of cryptocurrency exceeded 11 000 dollars per unit, they were announced the first billionaires who earned on bitcoins.

Also interesting is the story of a teenager, Eric Finaman, who in 14 years bought bitcoins on 1 000 dollars. Now he is a millionaire.

9. Bitcoins support large financial structures

From December 10, 2017 will begin trading in futures (future contracts) for Bitcoin. The trading floor will be the Chicago Commodity Exchange. CME Group. Probably others will follow.

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