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On this day in history, 15 years ago, the price of a bitcoin crashed from $17 down to literally $0.01 per coin in a matter of minutes. A hacker gained access to the Mt.Gox exchange website database and placed massive fake sell orders. This YouTuber streamed it happening live:
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄289,980 views • 1 month ago
A school employee got caught secretly mining bitcoin in a crawl space under a Massachusetts high school, using the school’s electricity. Police found coolers filled with computers and estimate they used about $17,500 in power before it was unplugged.
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄2,492,479 views • 7 months ago
This new open-source software lets your bitcoin mining machines automatically use the extra energy from your solar panels. It adjusts in seconds, from about 1–3 kW per miner, so excess electricity can be converted into bitcoin instead of sold back to the grid cheaply.
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄52,866 views • 10 days ago
A California engineer named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto was reported as being the inventor of Bitcoin in 2014 because his name matched the online username. The bold claim was later proven false. Dorian denied any involvement, and Bitcoin’s creator remains a mystery.
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄789,378 views • 6 months ago
On this day in history, 12 years ago, the Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper won all 29,657 bitcoin seized from the illegal Silk Road marketplace in a US Marshals Service government auction, paying approximately $19 million. The same bitcoins are now worth $1,785,256,201 today.
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄81,191 views • 21 days ago
₿REAKING: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says, “Bitcoin mining is taking excess energy and storing it into a new form. It's called currency. And you take that currency wherever you like. So you took energy from one place and now you've transported it everywhere.”
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Jimmy Carr is the United Kingdom’s most popular comedian and celebrity. Carr says, “I would not mind it if our government mines for bitcoins. Our power stations don’t do anything at night, so we’re going to mine for bitcoins. Great. New gold standard. Fine.”
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄622,015 views • 7 months ago
