Bitcoin has transferred $11 trillion in wealth since its blockchain first went live in 2009, according to the fresh calculations.
Bitcoin "Going strong" at $9.6 billion per day.
Uploaded to social media by analyst PlanB on Oct. 24, the latest buoyant statistics for Bitcoin show the largest cryptocurrency is still beating out fiat competitors.
At that rate, Bitcoin passes PayPal's annual transaction volume - $578 billion for 2018 - in just two months.
PlanB used his Bitcoin full node to verify the transaction data.
The numbers underscore the continued interest in Bitcoin, coming despite the bearish price action in the second half of 2019.Can BTC overtake Visa and Mastercard in ten years?
As Cointelegraph reported, in April, new research even suggested that Bitcoin could overtake the fiat payment heavyweights by 2029.
"In just 10 years, Bitcoin has managed to compete with the leaders of the payment system industry. Bitcoin's development is occurring exponentially," analysis firm DataLight concluded at the time.
In the future, as the development of off-chain scaling solutions such as the Lightning Network brings new advances, less and less activity in Bitcoin will occur on the blockchain.
Earlier this month, Samson Mow, CSO of Bitcoin technology company Blockstream, suggested that there is already more than enough spare capacity in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Transferred a Giant $11 Trillion Since 2009, New Data Reveals
Published on Oct 25, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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