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On this day, 13 years ago, the first bitcoin crane was launched, which gave away 5 BTC per day for entering a captcha.

A total of 19,700 BTC were given away by the creator of that crane, Gavin Andresen. As of today, at the rate of BTC $26,000, that is $510mn.

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