Jack Dorsey, part-time Twitter CEO and full-time Bitcoin maximalist, cryptically tweeted yesterday: „705742.”
Was it the salary of his meditation guru? The number of hairs in his ever-expanding beard? Perhaps it was a butt-tweet.
But when Dorsey responded early this morning to his own tweet by commenting „off by 117,” it became clearer-ish that the Twitter honcho was probably referring to Bitcoin block numbers. More specifically, Dorsey was predicting which block would include the new all-time high. The actual block, according to Dorsey and half of Crypto Twitter, would be 705,859.
705742
— jack (@jack) October 19, 2021
The all-time high price of Bitcoin is now $67,276.79, according to CoinGecko. As of last night, the record from April 14 of this year still stood: $64,804.72.
New blocks are added to Bitcoin about every 10 minutes, meaning Dorsey’s apparent prediction missed by 1,170 minutes, or 19.5 hours. (The actual time between blocks ended up being a few hours shorter thanks to
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