Oct 31, 2008: a pseudonym, a 9-page PDF, a mailing list. 18 years later:
- 1.47B transactions in 973,981 blocks; record day 927k (Apr 2024)
- 9.29B BTC moved: $176T gross, ~$61T net of change; biggest tx 550,000 BTC (2011)
- 1.59B addresses have held coins; 164M UTXOs; longest coin chain 4.63M hops
- 7 MH/s on one CPU to 1.2 ZH/s, ~21 GW, about 20 nuclear reactors' output
- 20.1M of 21M BTC issued; 3.6M untouched 10+ yrs, Satoshi's ~1.1M never moved
- $0.09 to $77k
Still nobody's in charge.