Crypto Moves Fast: New Milestones, Setbacks and Surprises

The cryptocurrency movement plays it fast and loose, with milestones, setbacks, surprises and achievements in many different shapes, sizes and quantities. The stats show that people with blockchain brains aren’t afraid to take chances, innovate, adopt, retreat, succeed, fail and explore.

 The List

1 in 5 US college students are using student loan money to buy cryptos
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1 in 5 South Korean millennials are invested in cryptos
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$800 will buy you a new ASIC Bitmain Ethereum mining rig
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50% price cut marks Bitcoin’s first quarter of 2018
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6 in 10 Americans have heard of Bitcoin
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12 Bitcoin ATMs are in Slovenia
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3 Bitcoin ATMs are in Mexico City
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209 Bitcoin ATMs are in Los Angeles
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$2.4 billion+ raised in ICOs so far this year
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$1.7 billion raised by Telegram’s 2018 ICO, the biggest ever
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$5.6 billion raised in ICOs last year
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46% of last year’s ICOs flopped
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5,484 cryptocurrency Meetups around the world
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1,302,566 cryptocurrency Meetup members around the world
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3 reasons Abra chose Litecoin: Bitcoin compatibility, scalability and mining fees
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£50,000 in Bitcoin seized by police in Britain intercepting IT scheme
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4,494 Class of 2017 undergrads at MIT were offered $100 worth of Bitcoin for free in 2014
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50% of the undergrads were still hodling their Bitcoin by July 2017
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$3.1 trillion is estimated impact of future blockchain enterprises on the global economy
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9 countries across 3 continents joined the Bitcoin Airdrop for students, powered by BitJob
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2020 is Dubai’s target year to phase out government paperwork in favor of blockchain smart contracts
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$6.9 million in Bitcoin, Tron, Ethereum or Odyssey buys 12730 W. Sunset Blvd.
in Los Angeles, California
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