Claims ledger / Bitcoin
SatoshiDice accounted for half (or 60%) of all Bitcoin transactions.
unresolved
Unresolved in this edition: the retrieved sources do not yet establish a sufficiently narrow, independently checked assessment. The previous editorial interpretation is retained in the audit data, not promoted as a new verified finding.
- Attribution
- attributed-paraphrase
- Publisher
- Federal Reserve Board working paper (Badev and Chen); UCSD "A Fistful of Bitcoins"
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- Read the attributed source
- Original excerpt
- No verbatim original excerpt established in this record.
Verification record
Evidence availability and provenance inspected; factual resolution withheld.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.698Z · External expert review not claimed.
Inspect source retrievals
- https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2014/files/2014104pap.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:11.587Z · SHA-256 0edf31a9ddea38d3cd1cf59867882fd2b9d3f407a0613e039638c70bb54b0b3d - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:08.635Z · SHA-256 b76ba4d71be7879463609160fc0b2ad9a933804eb2b5e70c63981f23d18aa97d
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | The figures vary by source, metric and window: the Fed paper says more than half within weeks and over 40% for most of its life; UCSD says about 60% of overall activity. Both count transactions, not economic value, and are not directly comparable. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | unresolved | Unresolved in this edition: the retrieved sources do not yet establish a sufficiently narrow, independently checked assessment. The previous editorial interpretation is retained in the audit data, not promoted as a new verified finding. |
This selected corpus cannot establish the prevalence of inaccurate reporting across all Bitcoin media.