Pizza for 10,000 BTC, huge commission and purchase of cryptocurrency from the US government - remember the famous Bitcoin transactions for 13 years
On January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, made the first transaction. 13 years have passed since then, and we propose to recall the five main Bitcoin transactions that have been carried out during this time.
Actually, let's start with the transaction described above. The developer of the first and most expensive cryptocurrency sent 50 digital coins to cryptographer Hal Finney. In addition to the fact that the transaction was the first in the Bitcoin network, it has another feature - zero commission.
If the debut BTC transfer was made at the beginning of 2009, then the first purchase of cryptocurrency for fiat money had to wait almost another year. On October 12, 2009, Marty Malmi purchased over 5,000 BTC, spending only $ 5 on them. Now 5,000 BTC is valued at almost $ 220,000,000.
At the dawn of the digital currency market, Bitcoin was worth a little, as you understand. If now a couple of tokens are enough to buy an apartment, then in the spring of 2010 a simple pizza cost several thousand coins. American programmer Laszlo Hanich spent 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas. At that time, he paid $ 25. Now 10,000 BTC is worth about $ 44,000,000.
There are situations when the commission exceeds the transfer amount. Moreover, it is essential. For example, in the spring of 2016, an unknown person sent the ten thousandth part of Bitcoin, for which a commission of 291 BTC or $ 125,000 was charged.
The last transaction in our material is the purchase of Bitcoin from the US government. In the summer of 2014, the Marshall Service organized an auction in which 30,000 BTC were sold for $ 18 million. For 7.5 years, the cost has grown by almost 10,000% and now amounts to $ 1,200,000,000. By the way, BTC was seized from the SilkRoad darknet marketplace.
