This Week In Bitcoin History

Hi bitcoiner. This is your weekly snapshot looking back at Bitcoin years ago.

📊 Bitcoin Metrics in Historical Perspective#

Take a look at fresh Bitcoin metrics and see how much the network has evolved over the years.

Metric	Today	1 Year Ago	3 Years Ago
Price	$86,216.00	$96,389.00	$16,837.30
Hashrate	1093.66 EH/s	832.40 EH/s	279.63 EH/s
Bitcoin Nodes	24,160	19,362	13,802
LN Nodes	17,500	14,883	13,589
LN Capacity	5,395.31 BTC	5,272.29 BTC	5,101.67 BTC

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📅 Bitcoin History - Dec 02-08#

Explore the upcoming Bitcoin history milestones and holidays:

Monday, Dec 01#

• 📑 First Bitcoin Report (2013)

Wednesday, Dec 03#

• 😇 Acton Institute Begins Accepting Bitcoin Donations (2013)

Thursday, Dec 04#

• ⚡️ Henry Ford Proposes Money Based on Energy (1921)

Friday, Dec 05#

• 🗣️ Satoshi on the Use of Bitcoin by Wikileaks (2010)

Sunday, Dec 07#

• 📞 Bitcoind Compiled for Nokia N900 (2010)

📚 Timeless Reads#

Read these timeless classics this week:

• 📚 Bitcoin Dissidents: Those Who Need It Most (2020)

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Sources

• Browse hundreds of historical Bitcoin milestones by visiting bitcoin-calendar.org

• Historical events sourced from Bitcoin Calendar open database

• Price, hashrate and LN data provided by mempool.space

• Bitcoin nodes data by Bitnodes