Some facts and numbers about the blockchain and bitcoin. you might be surprised.

1. Blockchain and Bitcoin by
the Numbers

2. •BITCOIN
•Blockchain
•ICO

3. Bitcoin

4. Failure
Ecash
• ‘1983-1998’
• Failure
E-gold
‘1996- 2007’
• Failure
Bitcoin isn’t the first virtual currency but the first cryptocurrency
Success
Bit Gold
Success
Bitcoin
‘Since 2008’
Designed in 98
Liberty Reserve
‘2006-2013’

6. January 3, 2009 :
The Genesis Block is mined

7. 17K

9. ~ 300.000.000 $
Total Market Cap
=

11. Total currency in circulation
• $1,424.92 United States
• $1,210.42 Euro area
• $856.55 Japan
• Bitcoin $300
• $250.80 India (rupee)
• $117.05 Russia (rouble)
• $103.09 United Kingdom (pound)

13. One study estimates bitcoin
to use between 0.8 and 4.4
TWh per year. Compare this
with the 138TWh per year
spent on mining and recycling
gold or the 650TWh
expended by the global
banking system annually

15. The computing power of the Bitcoin network is
7468 times higher than the one of the cumulative
500 world supercomputers.
Bitcoin
X7500

16. 200 000$ per week

18. It was on May 22 that he
reported successfully trading
10,000 BTC for two pizzas, The
bitcoins were quoted at $41 at
the time of the offer.
10,000 * 17000 =170 000 000 $

20. La Bulle
A dollar now is worth 4.8 percent of what it was 100 years
ago, or about 5 cents in end-of-1916 dollars
Increasing US Monetary Base Skyrocketed from 2007
to Now

24. "Maybeinthenewworld,somethinggetsbackedbyconsensus...Ifwewentintothefutureand
bitcoinsweresuccessful,Iwouldbeabletoexplainhowit'sanaturalevolutionofmoney."

25. 60% of today’s crude oil price

26. Bubble?
In 2000, we had the dot-com bubble.
In 2007, we had the housing bubble.
In 2017, we have the everything bubble (real estate, stock
market,..).

27. • Venezuela
• Zimbabwe
• Bolivia
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lebanon
• Nepal
• Bangladesh
• Algeria
• Morocco

28. Blockchain
Technology behind Bitcoin

29. THE TRUST
MACHINE
WHAT IS THE BLOCKCHAIN?

30. By 2027, 10% of global GDP is likely to be
stored on blockchain platforms.
”
Blockchain technologies could
reduce banks' infrastructural costs
by $15-20bn a year by 2022.
Santander
”
”
Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic
Technology Trends for 2017
”
”
By 2025 :
Tax collected for the first time by a
government via a blockchain
WEF
Blockchain has potential to
save global financial industry
up to $110bn,
McKinsey ”
”

31. The Chinese Government has just announced that it will
be using Blockchain Technology to collect taxes and for
electronic invoices in 2019.
Dubai work on a national blockchain to provide a series of
services for both government entities and private
companies. Expected to go live in 2018.

32. National currencies

34. 25 Central Bank

36. TUNISIA
2015, Tunisian poste adopted an
internal blockchain system with
cryptocurrency (E-dinar)
SENEGAL
Introduce a Blockchain-Based National Digital
Currency eCFA. Announced in 2016, the digital
currency will be legal tender just as the current
currency, CFA Franc. It will be introduced in all
West Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA :
Barclays Africa and its UK parent company
Barclays plc completed the world’s first trade
finance transaction using blockchain technology.
South African Reserve Bank (SARB) plans to
launch a blockchain-based digital version of the
South African Rand
KENYA :
Kenyan Government is implementing
Blockchain-based education
management system that would
make it hard to forge academic
certificate
NIGERIA :
Nigerian government offers
support to blockchain
development group

37. ICO: initial coin offering

38. • Ethereum Based BAT ICO Raises $36 Million in 30 Seconds
• The Bancor ICO raised $153 million on ethereum in three hours
• Aragon Token Sale/ICO raises $25M in 15 minutes
• Just over 30 minutes into the sale, the Filecoin team announced that it
had garneredraised a total of $252 million in investments.