For its 2023 edition, the Guinness World Records welcomes Bitcoin (BTC) and non-fungible tokens (NFT) under a new category called “Cryptomania”. The emblematic book of records thus retraces the history of Bitcoin and explains its various mechanisms while presenting the key events of the ecosystem, a new marker of the general public’s interest in these assets.
Bitcoin enters the Guinness World Records
For the first time in history, the iconic Guinness World Records added Bitcoin (BTC), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as well as various blockchain milestones to its list of official records for its 2023 edition. These appear through a category specially created for the occasion, dubbed “Cryptomania”.
This new edition, available for sale since last month, testifies to the preponderant place now occupied by Bitcoin and the world of blockchain in the contemporary world. The event is all the more notorious as it appears in the middle of the crypto winter, which also seems set to last.
Regarding Bitcoin, the king of cryptocurrencies ranks as ” First decentralized cryptocurrency », and is accompanied by the history of its creation, since its genesis with the evocation of the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, to the top spot it now holds in the digital asset space. Its intrinsic mechanism, proof of work (PoW)also benefits from an explanation for readers of the reference book of international records.
For example, we can read there:
“The Bitcoin network solves the problem of double-spending through a ‘trustless’ mechanism, which does not require verification of transactions by a third party (e.g. banks), and it does so through validators (i.e. i.e. miners, in PoW). »
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We will also notice the presence of NFTs in the Guinness World Records, a rather logical appearance given the considerable growth experienced by this type of asset particularly in 2021, both for the leading collections that have been talked about, such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and for the different use cases of the technology and its inherent metadata.
The CryptoPunks were notably mentioned in the book of records as the “most expensive collection”, due to the sale of CryptoPunk #5822 for the pharaonic sum of 8,000 Ethers, or $23.7 million when purchased last February by businessman Deepak Thapliyal.
We will also note the presence of fan tokensthese digital tokens designed for sports fans and introduced by the blockchain company Socios.com. Manchester City club token has for example been cited as the most expensive token in this category, printing a market cap of over $47 million as of March 24, 2022.
In an interview with our colleagues at Cointelegraph, a spokesperson for Guiness World Records said that these different subjects were now in tune with the times and likely to be of interest to readers. He adds :
“We will watch this space with interest over the next few years as the technologies that underpin crypto develop and find a wider range of applications. »
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Source: Guinness World Records
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