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 Stephen Hawking used to say: Success is just a product of your motivation!
Bitcoin Price
We closed the day, August 26 2019, at a price of $10,370. That’s a respectable 2.41 percent increase in 24 hours, or $244. It was the highest closing price in two days. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017).
Bitcoin market cap
Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $185,625,235,889. It now commands 69 percent of the total crypto market.
Bitcoin volume
Yesterday’s volume of $18,438,654,080 was the highest in four days, 20 percent above the year’s average, and 59 percent below the year’s high.
Bitcoin transactions
A total of 318,082 transactions were conducted yesterday, which is 5 percent below the year’s average and 29 percent below the year’s high.
Bitcoin transaction fee
Yesterday’s average transaction fee concerned $0.44. That’s $3.27 below the year’s high of $3.71.
Bitcoin distribution by address
As of now, there are 17,135 Bitcoin millionaires, or addresses containing more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin. Furthermore, the top 10 Bitcoin addresses house 5.4 percent of the total supply, the top 100 14.7 percent, and the top 1000 34.6 percent.
Company with a market cap closest to Bitcoin
With a market capitalization of $184 Billion, Anheuser-Busch InBev 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 88.8 percent behind being on track. Bitcoin’s price should have been $92,473 by now, according to dickline.info.
Bitcoin on Twitter
Yesterday 16,826 fresh tweets about Bitcoin were sent out into the world. That’s 12.4 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:
— CCN Markets (@CCNMarkets) August 26, 2019 This was yesterday’s most upvoted Reddit post about Bitcoin:
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