- Bitcoin has blown its 14th candle! January 3, 2009 creates its first "genesis" block of 50 BTC. In 2022, the value of transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain exceeded $8 trillion.
- Citizens of the city of Lugano in Switzerland can now do most of their day-to-day purchases using only Bitcoin, "hundreds" of merchants accept BTC.
- Despite a bear market, more than 4000 cryptocurrency distributors were installed in 2022. Australia becomes 4th largest crypto ATM hub with 225 ATMs behind United States, Canada and Spain. But the most prepared countries, that is to say active in the adoption of cryptocurrency (the most cryptofriendly) are Hong Kong in 1st place followed by the United States and Switzerland.
- Coinbase was fined $50 million for letting people register on the platform without completing the necessary background checks.
- Binance has added the option to purchase vindle!a Apple Pay and Google Pay.
- The Iranian government returns the seized equipment (150,000 units) to the miners.
- According to the "National Blockchain Whitepaper", about 1400 Chinese companies are involved in the Blockchain industry.
