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Silvergate Bank Announces Liquidation And Winding Down Of Operations

Once a major banking partner for various cryptocurrency firms, Silvergate will end its operations in line with regulatory requirements.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-shares-drop-64-in-pre-market-as-vc-funds-tell-firms-to-withdraw-funds

Count of published peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, and other scholarly literature mentioning Bitcoin: 2009: 83 2010: 136 2011: 218 2012: 424 2013: 868 2014: 2,070 2015: 2,820 2016: 3,380 2017: 6,460 2018: 11,500 2019: 20,300 2020: 24,000 2021: 25,600 2022: 26,100 2023: 🤔 #NGU Data from Google Scholar, curated by #[0]

Satoshi Nakamoto posted this 13 years ago today: "Eventually at most only 21 million coins for 6.8 billion people in the world if it really gets huge. But don't worry, there are (...) 8 decimal places internally." ∞ / 2.1 quadrillion And on Lightning there are even 3 more decimal places, with the unit called "Millisat" facilitating an exchange rate of 1 billion USD per 1 bitcoin for msat/cent parity.