SR044: Fourteenth CryptoSuper500 List

With 16 years of history behind it, and increasing acceptance globally, Bitcoin is now a two trillion-dollar asset, available for sale through various exchanges, as well as Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) from traditional financial institutions. The fourth halving of the block reward was in April 2024, and 19.87 million bitcoins have now been issued out of the 21 million maximum supply. Bitcoin’s hash rate and price have both increased by a factor of more than 16 since the first CryptoSuper500 report in November 2018.  Hash rate per second is the standard metric for the computational power of bitcoin miners, just as floating point operations per second (flops) are the metric in the HPC/AI world.