Interesting facts about crypto

Bitcoin has never been hacked, however people who have stored their Bitcoin in an unsecured way has gotten their Bitcoin hacked

Bitcoin, unlike Fiat currencies, is finite. There can only ever be 21.000.000 Bitcoin in existence, this is a limit coded directly into the infrastructure of Bi...

The creator of Bitcoin remains unknown. The creator went under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto and mysteriously stopped communication in 2011, only 3 years after...

No one can stop you from creating a wallet or interacting with the Blockchain, it is available for everyone to use, and no government or entity can prevent you...

On May 10, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 Bitcoin for 2 Papa John’s pizzas in Florida. This was the first recorded Bitcoin payment for goods valued at about...

El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender alongside the US dollar, which the Central American country adopted in 2001 to replace its own...

According to coinatmradar there are more than 38,825 cryptocurrency ATMs which makes it possible to withdraw and buy Bitcoin and other assets directly through a...

James Howells, who lives in Wales, U.K., threw out a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins back in 2013. When he realized how much the value of Bitcoin had risen in re...

Bitcoin solved a problem that had never before been achieved. The problem is called 'The Double Spend Problem'. It was a problem for digital money to ensure tha...

Bitcoin solved a problem that had never before been achieved. The problem is called 'The Reversibility Problem'. It was a problem for humanity's freedom to inte...

Around year 2140 is the last Bitcoin is predicted to be mined. Unlike FIAT currencies, Bitcoin is limited, and there can't ever be more than 21,000,000

Banks are now starting to issue their own digital currencies called CBDC, which stands for Central Bank Digital Currencies. The central banks will utilize the s...

Cryptocurrencies provide individuals in unbanked or underbanked regions with access to financial services and participation in the global economy. By leveraging...

Stablecoins are pegged to stable assets like fiat currencies or commodities, offering stability and facilitating transactions in the crypto space. By maintainin...

The energy-intensive processes of mining and transaction verification in cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin, have raised concerns about their environmental...

Cryptocurrencies have spurred the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, enabling activities such as lending, borrowing, and trading without...

Cryptocurrencies are increasingly being accepted as a form of payment in diverse industries such as e-commerce, gaming, travel, and charity. Companies and merch...

Cryptocurrency exchanges serve as platforms for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies, providing liquidity and accessibility for market participants. Th...

Cryptocurrencies offer a potential solution for faster, more secure, and cost-effective cross-border remittances, benefiting individuals and families worldwide....

The emergence of cryptocurrencies has prompted central banks to explore digital currencies and evaluate their potential impact on monetary policies and financia...

Cryptocurrencies have paved the way for decentralized applications (dApps), enabling innovative and transparent solutions in areas such as finance, gaming, gove...

Blockchain technology has applications beyond cryptocurrencies, with potential uses in supply chain management, healthcare, voting systems, identity verificatio...

Satoshi Nakamoto released the whitepaper 'Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' on October 31, 2008, posting it to the Cryptography Mailing List hoste...

Block 0, the genesis block, was created by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, marking the launch of the Bitcoin network with its first 50 BTC reward.

The coinbase of Bitcoin's genesis block contains the text 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks', referencing that day's front-...

Because of how the genesis block is handled in Bitcoin's code, its 50 BTC coinbase reward is excluded from the spendable transaction database and cannot be move...

On January 12, 2009, Satoshi sent 10 BTC to developer and cryptographer Hal Finney in block 170, recorded as the first Bitcoin transaction between two people.

The 'Patoshi pattern' identified by researcher Sergio Demian Lerner estimates that a single early miner, presumed to be Satoshi, mined roughly 1 to 1.1 million...

Satoshi's documented communications consist almost entirely of mailing-list messages, BitcoinTalk forum posts, and private emails. No known photographs, voice r...

Researchers have noted Satoshi frequently used British English spellings and phrases such as 'bloody hard', fueling speculation about geographic origin.

A March 2014 Newsweek cover story identified California resident Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin's creator.

After being cut off by major payment processors, WikiLeaks started accepting Bitcoin donations in June 2011.

In 2010, Gavin Andresen launched the Bitcoin Faucet, a website that gave 5 BTC to anyone who visited and solved a captcha.

The crypto term 'HODL' originated on December 18, 2013, when a user named GameKyuubi published a Bitcoin Talk forum post titled 'I AM HODLING', misspelling 'hol...

Laszlo Hanyecz, who on May 22, 2010 paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John's pizzas in the first known real-world Bitcoin purchase, is also credited as one of the fi...

Bitcoin Magazine, one of the oldest publications dedicated to Bitcoin, launched in 2012 with Vitalik Buterin as a co-founder and writer before he created Ethere...

Hal Finney, an early Bitcoin contributor, suffered from ALS and was cryonically preserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation after his death in 2014. His ea...

Vitalik Buterin, born in 1994 in Kolomna, Russia, was around 19 years old when he wrote the Ethereum whitepaper in 2013, proposing a blockchain that could run p...

The concept of smart contracts predates Ethereum; computer scientist and legal scholar Nick Szabo described self-executing contractual clauses in writings durin...

On June 17, 2016, an attacker exploited a reentrancy bug in the smart contract of The DAO, an Ethereum-based venture fund, siphoning roughly 3.6 million ether w...

After the June 2016 hack of The DAO drained about 3.6 million ether, the Ethereum network executed a controversial hard fork on July 20, 2016, at block 1,920,00...

The July 2016 Ethereum hard fork that reversed the DAO hack split the blockchain in two. Anyone holding ether before block 1,920,000 ended up with coins on both...

In a Section 21(a) report issued July 25, 2017, the U.S. SEC concluded that tokens from The DAO, an Ethereum-based crowdfunded venture fund, were securities sub...

During the June 2016 hack of The DAO, an Ethereum venture fund, volunteers known as the Robin Hood Group used the same reentrancy exploit defensively. They move...

The Merge, Ethereum's September 2022 transition from proof-of-work mining to proof-of-stake, reduced the network's energy consumption by an estimated 99.95%, ac...

Filecoin's 2017 sale reportedly raised over $200 million, while the year-long EOS sale reportedly raised around $4 billion. These figures highlighted both the s...

Software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer launched Dogecoin on December 6, 2013, as a lighthearted parody of the cryptocurrency boom. Neither founder e...

Dogecoin takes its name and mascot from the 2013 'Doge' internet meme, which paired a wide-eyed Shiba Inu with broken-English captions set in Comic Sans font.

The dog in the 2013 'Doge' meme that inspired Dogecoin was a rescued Shiba Inu named Kabosu, owned by Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato, who first poste...

Kabosu, the Shiba Inu whose face became the Doge meme and Dogecoin's mascot, died on May 24, 2024, at roughly 18 years old.

In 2014, the Dogecoin community raised roughly $30,000 to help the already-qualified Jamaican bobsled team reach the Sochi Winter Olympics after a funding short...

The Dogecoin community crowdfunded around $55,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver Josh Wise, whose car was wrapped in the Doge meme at Talladega in 2014.

Through the 2014 'Doge4Water' campaign with the nonprofit Charity: Water, the Dogecoin community raised roughly $30,000 to build clean-water wells in Kenya.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk repeatedly promoted Dogecoin on social media and called himself the 'Dogefather' while hosting Saturday Night Live in 2021.

In 2021, SpaceX agreed to launch the 'DOGE-1' satellite to the Moon, with the payload paid for in Dogecoin by Geometric Energy Corporation.

Launched in August 2020 by an anonymous founder known as Ryoshi, Shiba Inu (SHIB) marketed itself as a 'Dogecoin killer' and runs as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum...

Fans and the Dogecoin community funded a bronze statue of Kabosu in Sakura, Japan, honoring the Shiba Inu behind the world's most famous dog meme.

The Mimblewimble protocol's name comes from a tongue-tying jinx in the Harry Potter series, fitting its goal of preventing the ledger from 'speaking' about tran...

A February 2022 exploit of the Wormhole bridge connecting Solana and Ethereum let an attacker mint 120,000 wrapped ETH without backing collateral, worth roughly...

In August 2022, a flawed upgrade to the Nomad bridge let many people copy a single working exploit transaction, draining nearly $190 million in a crowd-sourced...

In late August 2020, an anonymous developer known as Chef Nomi launched SushiSwap as a fork of Uniswap, using a 'vampire attack' that lured away Uniswap's liqui...

In September 2020, Uniswap retroactively airdropped 400 UNI governance tokens to every wallet that had ever used the protocol, one of the most famous airdrops i...

CryptoKitties, a 2017 game of collectible breedable cat NFTs built on the ERC-721 standard, became so popular it congested the Ethereum network and spiked gas f...

Digital artist Kevin McCoy created 'Quantum,' a pulsating octagon animation, on the Namecoin blockchain in May 2014, with technology co-developed by Anil Dash....

Kevin McCoy's 'Quantum,' often called the first NFT, was auctioned at Sotheby's in June 2021 for about $1.47 million during the NFT boom.

When Larva Labs launched the 10,000 CryptoPunks in June 2017, anyone with an Ethereum wallet could claim them for free, paying only the gas fee. All 10,000 were...

'Everydays: The First 5000 Days' is a single JPEG mosaic of 5,000 individual images Beeple created and posted one per day. He began the daily practice on May 1,...

Beeple's 'Everydays: The First 5000 Days' sold for about $69 million at Christie's in March 2021, the most expensive NFT sale at the time. The buyer, known as M...

In December 2021, the NFT artwork 'The Merge' by anonymous artist Pak sold for about $91.8 million on Nifty Gateway. The piece was split among roughly 28,000 bu...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his first-ever tweet ('just setting up my twttr') for about $2.9 million in March 2021. A later attempt to resell...

Zoe Roth, the subject of the viral 'Disaster Girl' meme, sold the original photo as an NFT in April 2021 for 180 ETH (roughly $500,000 at the time) while retain...

In March 2021, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose minted one of his columns as an NFT and auctioned it for charity on Foundation, with the winning bid reachin...

In November 2021, ConstitutionDAO crowdfunded about $47 million in ETH to bid on a rare first-printing copy of the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby's, but lost to b...

PleasrDAO emerged in 2021 as a collector DAO that pooled funds to acquire culturally significant digital assets, including the unique Wu-Tang Clan album 'Once U...

In May 2022 the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) lost its dollar peg and entered a 'death spiral' with its sister token LUNA, wiping out roughly $40 billio...

The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index has placed Bitcoin's annualized electricity draw in the range of roughly 100-150 terawatt-hours, comparable...

Because mining ASICs are single-purpose and quickly outdated by more efficient models, research led by Alex de Vries has estimated Bitcoin produces on the order...

Oil drilling often releases associated natural gas that would otherwise be flared (burned off) or vented. Companies like Crusoe Energy have captured this strand...

Following China's 2021 mining ban, the United States emerged with the largest share of global Bitcoin hashrate, according to the Cambridge mining map. States li...

Because mining rigs can be switched off almost instantly, miners in regions like Texas participate in demand-response programs, powering down during peak demand...

Some operations capture the waste heat from ASICs to warm greenhouses, dry timber, heat swimming pools, or provide residential heating. Projects in countries li...

The core idea behind Proof-of-Work originated with Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor in 1992 as a way to deter spam and junk mail, and Adam Back proposed a similar sc...

Before its 2014 failure, Mt. Gox was the dominant Bitcoin exchange, reportedly processing about 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide. Its collapse sent sho...

In January 2018, Japanese exchange Coincheck was hacked for roughly 523 million NEM (XEM) tokens, valued at around $530 million at the time. It ranked among the...

In August 2016, Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex was breached and roughly 119,756 BTC were stolen. It was one of the largest Bitcoin thefts of that era.

In February 2022, U.S. authorities arrested Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan in connection with laundering proceeds of the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The case invo...

Heather Morgan, charged in connection with laundering the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, was also a self-styled rapper performing as 'Razzlekhan.' The unusual det...

In September 2020, exchange KuCoin suffered a breach of its hot wallets, with stolen assets estimated at around $280 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum and numero...

In March 2022, the Ronin Network bridge supporting the Axie Infinity game was drained of about 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC, worth over $600 million at the...

Investigators reported that the March 2022 hack of the Ronin Network bridge, which supported the Axie Infinity game and lost over $600 million, began with a spe...

In August 2021, the cross-chain protocol Poly Network was exploited for roughly $610 million across the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Polygon networks. It w...

After the August 2021 exploit that drained roughly $610 million from the cross-chain DeFi protocol Poly Network, the company publicly addressed the attacker as...

OneCoin, launched in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova, marketed itself as a cryptocurrency but ran no genuine public blockchain. Investigators found its 'coins' lived on a...

Prosecutors estimated OneCoin raised over 4 billion euros (more than $4 billion) from investors worldwide between 2014 and 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice...

Ruja Ignatova, the self-styled 'Cryptoqueen' behind the multi-billion-dollar OneCoin fraud, boarded a flight from Sofia, Bulgaria to Athens, Greece on October 2...

In June 2022 the FBI added Ruja Ignatova to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list over the OneCoin fraud. She was one of only a handful of women ever placed on the...

The BBC investigative podcast 'The Missing Cryptoqueen,' first released in 2019 and hosted by Jamie Bartlett, brought global attention to the OneCoin fraud and...

BitConnect, active from roughly 2016 to 2018, lured investors with a 'lending program' promising returns of about 1% per day, implying gains over 3,000% per yea...

BitConnect abruptly shut down its lending and exchange platform on January 16, 2018, after receiving cease-and-desist letters from securities regulators in Texa...

Promoter Carlos Matos delivered a frenzied speech at a 2017 BitConnect event, shouting 'BitConneeeeect!' and 'Hey hey hey!', which became an enduring internet m...

PlusToken, operating mainly out of China and South Korea from around 2018 to 2019, defrauded investors of billions of dollars in bitcoin, ether and other crypto...

After Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed in 2019 following the reported December 2018 death of founder Gerald Cotten, investigators examined its supposed co...

Investigators found that Gerald Cotten, founder of the failed Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX, used aliases to create accounts on his own platform, crediting them...

FTX, once one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, spiraled into bankruptcy in November 2022 after a wave of customer withdrawals it could not meet. The com...

In March 2024 Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the FTX fraud. The judge also ordered him to forfeit billions of dollars.

John J. Ray III, who previously oversaw the wind-down of Enron, was appointed to lead FTX through bankruptcy. He wrote that he had never seen 'such a complete f...

The Trezor One, made by Czech company SatoshiLabs, shipped in 2014 as the first dedicated hardware wallet for Bitcoin. It isolates private keys on an offline de...

To support adoption, El Salvador rolled out a government digital wallet called Chivo, which offered $30 in Bitcoin to citizens who downloaded and registered wit...

In November 2021, President Bukele announced plans for a tax-friendly 'Bitcoin City' near the Conchagua volcano, intended to be powered by geothermal energy and...

El Salvador announced Bitcoin-backed bonds, nicknamed 'Volcano Bonds,' aiming to raise around $1 billion, with proceeds split between buying more Bitcoin and bu...

In April 2022, the Central African Republic (CAR) became the second country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender, after its National Assembly passed a law...

In September 2021, ten Chinese government agencies, including the People's Bank of China, jointly declared all cryptocurrency-related transactions illegal, incl...

Bhutan's sovereign Bitcoin mining and holdings were largely kept private until reporting and court filings around 2023 revealed the kingdom had been accumulatin...

In August 2020, business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, led by Michael Saylor, announced it had purchased 21,454 BTC for about $250 million, becoming the firs...

Tesla reported in its Q2 2022 results that it had converted roughly 75% of its Bitcoin holdings back into fiat, which the company said added about $936 million...

On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the listing of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products, and the first funds began tradin...

SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. was a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision about Florida orange grove investment contracts. Its four-part test for an 'investment contract' is...

The Central Bank of The Bahamas launched the Sand Dollar nationwide in October 2020, making it the world's first fully deployed, country-wide central bank digit...

In June 2011, a security breach at Mt. Gox led to a flood of sell orders that drove the displayed price down to as low as $0.01 before trading was halted and th...

On March 12, 2020, amid the COVID-19 market panic, Bitcoin lost roughly half its value in a single day, an event often called Black Thursday.

Launched in March 2010 by a user known as 'dwdollar', BitcoinMarket.com is widely regarded as the first real Bitcoin exchange, letting users trade BTC for fiat...

Mt. Gox stood for 'Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange', originally created by Jed McCaleb in 2007 to trade fantasy card-game cards, before he repurposed it as...

In February 2014 Mt. Gox suspended trading and filed for bankruptcy, revealing the loss of around 850,000 bitcoins belonging to customers and the company, rough...

In November 2023 Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, agreed to pay over $4 billion to U.S. authorities to settle anti-money-laundering and sanctions v...

The Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee began distributing recovered Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash to creditors in 2024, roughly ten years after the exchange's 2014 bankr...

In November 2021, the Los Angeles arena formerly known as Staples Center was renamed Crypto.com Arena after the exchange signed a 20-year naming-rights deal rep...

In 2021 FTX signed a 19-year deal reportedly worth around $135 million to rename the Miami Heat's home FTX Arena. After FTX collapsed, Miami-Dade County termina...

Coinbase's 2022 Super Bowl ad was a minimalist 60-second spot showing only a color-changing QR code bouncing around the screen. So many people scanned it that C...

FTX's Super Bowl LVI commercial featured comedian Larry David as a skeptic dismissing world-changing inventions throughout history, ending with him doubting cry...

In an October 2021 Crypto.com ad, actor Matt Damon delivered the line 'Fortune favors the brave' while comparing crypto investing to historic feats of explorati...

In October 2022 the U.S. SEC charged Kim Kardashian for promoting the EthereumMax (EMAX) token on Instagram without disclosing she was paid $250,000. She agreed...

In 2018 the SEC settled charges against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Khaled Khaled (DJ Khaled) for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting initial...

The CBS sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory' aired a 2017 episode titled 'The Bitcoin Entanglement,' in which the characters try to recover bitcoins they mined years ea...

NFL quarterback Tom Brady and model Gisele Bündchen became FTX brand ambassadors in 2021, reportedly receiving equity, and were later named in lawsuits followin...

Filmmaker Spike Lee directed and starred in a 2021 advertising campaign for Bitcoin ATM operator Coin Cloud, framing digital currency with the message 'old mone...

Rapper Snoop Dogg became a prominent advocate of NFTs and digital collectibles, revealing himself as the pseudonymous NFT collector 'Cozomo de' Medici' in 2021.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, launched by Yuga Labs in April 2021, was bought by celebrities including Jimmy Fallon, Eminem and Paris Hilton, who dis...

The NBA launched 'NBA Top Shot' in 2020, selling officially licensed video-highlight NFTs, while leagues like the NFL and UFC followed with their own blockchain...

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, known from the Facebook lawsuit dramatized in 'The Social Network,' invested heavily in Bitcoin in 2013 and founded the Gemini exc...

Netflix's 2022 documentary 'Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King' examined the collapse of Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX and the mysterious death of its fo...

Eric Hughes's 1993 essay 'A Cypherpunk's Manifesto' famously stated 'Cypherpunks write code,' arguing that privacy must be defended by building cryptographic to...

Timothy C. May, a former Intel physicist, authored 'The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto' around 1988, predicting that cryptography would let people transact and comm...

Phil Zimmermann released Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in 1991, bringing strong public-key encryption to ordinary users and becoming a cornerstone tool of the cyphe...

To protest U.S. export restrictions that treated strong cryptography as a munition, activists famously printed encryption algorithms like RSA on t-shirts, argui...

In a 2018 pilot using IBM's Hyperledger Fabric-based Food Trust, Walmart cut the time to trace a package of mangoes back to its source farm from roughly 7 days...

In 2018, a stake in a roughly $30 million luxury condominium in Manhattan's East Village was tokenised on the Ethereum blockchain by firms Fluidity and Propellr...

The DAO was an Ethereum-based venture fund governed by on-chain token-holder voting that raised more than $150 million in ether in 2016. A reentrancy exploit dr...

Institutions including MIT have issued digital diplomas anchored to a blockchain using the open Blockcerts standard, beginning around 2017. Graduates can share...

The number of possible 256-bit private keys (around 10^77) is on the same astronomical order as common estimates for the number of atoms in the observable unive...

Even if every computer on Earth checked billions of keys per second, searching a meaningful fraction of the 2^256 keyspace would take vastly longer than the rou...

A famous cryptography result notes that merely incrementing a 256-bit counter through all its states, at the thermodynamic minimum energy per bit-flip, would re...

The world's first Bitcoin ATM was installed at Waves Coffee House in Vancouver, Canada, on October 29, 2013. Built by Robocoin, it let customers exchange cash f...

Cryptographer Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on January 11, 2009, becoming one of the earliest public adopters. He was the first person besides Satoshi kno...

Launched in 2011 and shut down by the FBI in 2013, Silk Road was an online marketplace that used Bitcoin for anonymous transactions. Its founder, Ross Ulbricht,...

Launched in 2017 by Blockstream, the Blockstream Satellite network broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain to most of the planet over leased satellite bandwidth. It l...

Blockstream's satellite service includes an API that lets users broadcast arbitrary messages alongside blockchain data. Early users beamed greetings and other t...

In November 2013, Richard Branson announced Virgin Galactic would accept Bitcoin for its suborbital spaceflights, and a flight attendant from Hawaii became the...

In promotional stunts, people have tattooed a funded Bitcoin QR code on their body and dared the public to scan and sweep it. Such loaded tattoos are typically...

For years a PDF of the Bitcoin whitepaper was quietly bundled in macOS as a sample document for the Image Capture 'Virtual Scanner II' device. Users brought it...

Starting in 2011, Mike Caldwell minted 'Casascius' physical coins and bars, each loaded with real bitcoin behind a private key hidden under a tamper-evident hol...

The Ordinals protocol, launched in January 2023 by Casey Rodarmor, lets users inscribe data such as images and text directly onto individual satoshis. It set of...

In 2016 attackers used the SWIFT network to try to steal nearly $1 billion from Bangladesh Bank's account at the New York Fed. A misspelling of 'foundation' as...

When the FTX exchange imploded in November 2022, customer funds had been misappropriated, leaving a shortfall estimated around $8 billion. Founder Sam Bankman-F...

Telegram raised about $1.7 billion in 2018 for its TON blockchain and Gram token in one of the largest token sales ever. The U.S. SEC sued, and in 2020 Telegram...

In February 2022, the alien-trait CryptoPunk #5822 sold for 8,000 ETH, roughly $23.7 million at the time, a record for a single CryptoPunk. CryptoPunks were ori...

In 2023, a wallet holding 50 BTC mined in 2009, during Bitcoin's first months, suddenly transferred its coins after sitting untouched for over a decade. Such 'S...

In November 2020, U.S. authorities seized roughly 69,370 BTC tied to the defunct Silk Road darknet marketplace, after the coins had sat dormant for years. It wa...

In November 2017, a user accidentally triggered a bug in Parity's multisignature wallet library and then self-destructed it, freezing roughly 513,000 ETH across...

Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed in 2019 after founder Gerald Cotten died, allegedly taking sole knowledge of the cold-wallet keys. Around C$190 million i...

When Yuga Labs launched the 10,000-piece Bored Ape Yacht Club collection in April 2021, each ape minted for 0.08 ETH. Some individual apes later sold for millio...

In 2021 and 2022, auction houses including Sotheby's and Christie's sold CryptoPunks and Bored Apes for millions, bringing NFTs into the traditional fine-art ma...

On August 15, 2010, a transaction in block 74638 exploited an integer-overflow bug to create 184,467,440,737.09551616 BTC across two outputs, far exceeding the...