PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Bitcoin’s Key Stats

Bitcoin has been making a few more waves in the mainstream news cycle and it’s all because of a little event that’s happening next week: bitcoin’s reward for mining is being halved from 25 to 12.5 bitcoins.

What that means for bitcoin? Its price will likely go up. At least that’s what’s being predicted. But before the big halving event occurs, catch up with today’s 5-in-1 Daily Data Dive on bitcoin’s key facts:

15,717,057 | The number of bitcoins in circulation

21,000,000 | The total number of bitcoins that can be produced (under its current structure)

$10.5B | Bitcoin’s estimated market cap

3,600 | Number of bitcoins generated daily

$676.12 | Bitcoin’s price on July 1