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Mind blowing facts about Bitcoin

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In March 2010, user "SmokeTooMuch" auctioned 10,000 BTC for $50 (cumulatively), but no buyer was found. No exchanges or market, users were mainly cryptography fans who were sending bitcoins for hobby purposes representing low or no value.
On 17 Mar 2010, the now-defunct http://BitcoinMarket.com exchange is the first one that starts operating.
In five days, the price grew 1000%, rising from 0.008to0.008 to0.08 for 1 bitcoin.
On 22 May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first real-world transaction by buying two pizzas in Jacksonville, Florida for 10,000 BTC.
In October, Peter Saddington cashed out 45 bitcoins to buy a 2015 Lamborghini Huracán, for the equivalent of about 238,000.Heandthesellermadethetransactioninbitcoin,withoutusingatraditionalbank.Thetransactionfeestotaled238,000. He and the seller made the transaction in bitcoin, without using a traditional bank. The transaction fees totaled7.50.(Peter Saddington of Atlanta first read about bitcoin in 2011, and bought some for less than 3percoin.Withbitcoinnowtradingataround3 per coin. With bitcoin now trading at around7,500, the return on those early investments is around 250,000%.)

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