The document discusses cryptocurrency and Ruby. It describes how the creator wrote Ruby wrappers for the Bitcoin and Ethereum APIs to allow interaction with cryptocurrency nodes from Ruby. It also details a project to import over 236 million Bitcoin transactions from blocks 1 to 500,000+ into a SQL database. The document concludes by listing the highest value Bitcoin transactions by year, with the highest of all time occurring on August 2, 2017 when 50,000 BTC were transferred worth approximately $135 million.
83. ● Within 2009 - 6000 BTC on Jul 21, 2009
● Within 2010 - 90,000 BTC on Nov 09, 2010
● Within 2011 - 499,720.7 BTC on Nov 16, 2011
● Within 2012 - 125,000 BTC on Sep 02, 2012
● Within 2013 - 194,993 BTC on Nov 23, 2013
● Within 2014 - 212,517 BTC on Dec 10, 2014
● Within 2015 - 94,772 BTC on Jan 09, 2015
● Within 2016 - 50,490 BTC on Mar 27, 2016
● Within 2017 - 50,000 BTC on Aug 02, 2017