Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘18 million of the 21 million Bitcoins have now been mined’

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Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day.Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Sloterdijk used to say: Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder!Bitcoin PriceWe closed the day, October 18 2019, at a price of $7,973. That’s a minor 1.57 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$127.72. It was the lowest closing price in one hundred and twenty-eight days.We’re still 60 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017).Bitcoin market capBitcoin’s market cap ended the day at $143,517,630,376. It now commands 66 percent of the total crypto market.Bitcoin volumeYesterday’s volume of $15,651,592,610 was the highest in one day, 1 percent above the year’s average, and 65 percent below the year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 327 tons of gold.Bitcoin transactionsA total of 339,230 transactions…