‘Republican congressman says Facebook should embrace Bitcoin and drop Libra’

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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 Schopenhauer used to say: Yolo!

Bitcoin Price

We closed the day, October 17 2019, at a price of $8,103. That’s a minor 0.69 percent increase in 24 hours, or $56. It was the highest 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

Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $145,853,994,298. It now commands 67 percent of the total crypto market.

Bitcoin volume

Yesterday’s volume of $14,313,052,244 was the lowest in three days, 7 percent below the year’s average, and 68 percent below the year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 299 tons of gold.

Bitcoin transactions

A total of 333,955 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 0 percent below the year’s average and 26 percent below the year’s high.

Bitcoin transaction fee

Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $0.24. That’s $3.47 below the year’s high of $3.71.

Bitcoin distribution by address

As of now, there are 11,783 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin.

Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 5.6 percent of the total supply, the top 100 14.5 percent, and the top 1000 34.4 percent.

Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin

With a market capitalization of $145 billion, Medtronic 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 93.2 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin‘s price should have been $118,871 by now, according to dickline.info.

Bitcoin Energy Consumption

Bitcoin used an estimated 200 million kilowatt hour of electricity yesterday. On a yearly basis that would amount to 73 terawatt hour. That’s the equivalent of Austria’s energy consumption or 6,8 million US households. Bitcoin’s energy consumption now represents 0.3% of the whole world’s electricity use.

Bitcoin on Twitter

Yesterday 16,806 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 9.9 percent below 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 yesterday’s most engaged tweet about Bitcoin:

US Congressman: Facebook Should Adopt Bitcoin, Drop Libra Project via @forbes https://t.co/CDRB6l20tA

— Pierre Rochard (@pierre_rochard) October 17, 2019

This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:

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