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<p>While the Bitcoin (BTC) price stabilizes near $64,000, the Bitcoin blockchain achieves significant milestones. According to data from <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/" target="_blank">Clark Moody</a>, the Bitcoin blockchain network surpassed one billion transactions on Sunday, May 5th.</p> 
<h3 id="bitcoin-blockchain-hits-significant-milestone">Bitcoin Blockchain Hits Significant Milestone</h3> 
<p>The Bitcoin community has come forward to celebrate this milestone highlighting the Bitcoin network’s ability to seamlessly process transactions with utmost security.</p> 
<p>This marks a significant milestone for the ecosystem as Bitcoin, the world’s first decentralized blockchain, achieves a substantial number of transactions. As a store of value network, this accomplishment instills greater trust in Bitcoin as an asset</p> 
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 <p lang="en" dir="ltr">What's amazing is not that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> network has now processed 1B transactions, but that it has done so flawlessly, securely, and without any centralised intermediary. <a href="https://t.co/XC09H5bO6u">https://t.co/XC09H5bO6u</a></p> 
 <p>— Tarik Sammour (@tarik_sammour) <a href="https://twitter.com/tarik_sammour/status/1787306356481155298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></p>
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<p>Several market analysts are pointing out a comparison of how the Bitcoin blockchain has emerged as a formidable platform against payment giants like VISA and Mastercard. Founder of the Orange Pill App Matteo Pallegrini said that Bitcoin achieved its first 1 billion transactions in just 15 years, contrasting it with Visa’s 25-year timeline to reach the same milestone. This achievement underscores Bitcoin’s rapid growth and adoption in the payments space.</p> 
<p>Pallegrini also emphasized the competitive landscape <a href="https://coingape.com/bitcoin-price-will-btc-drop-to-60k-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitcoin</a> faces, pointing out that it contends with numerous payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Venmo, and Alipay, among others. Despite competing against entities with billions of dollars in marketing spend and thousands of employees and executives, Bitcoin has also demonstrated remarkable resilience and growth in the payments industry.</p> 
<h3 id="btc-adoption-spike">BTC Adoption Spike</h3> 
<p>Market analysts believe that Bitcoin adoption is likely to grow even more exponentially from the current levels. Thanks to the growing institutional participation in Bitcoin with the recent launch of regulated products such as the <a href="https://coingape.com/grayscale-bitcoin-etf-ends-77-days-of-outflows-gbtc-inflows-begin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spot Bitcoin ETF</a>.</p> 
<p>Bitcoin investment funds have witnessed growing demand worldwide clearly suggesting a boost in the adoption.</p> 
<p>Bitcoin analyst Willy Woo recently made a striking comparison, stating that Bitcoin’s current adoption rate of 4.7% mirrors the level of internet adoption in January 1999. This analogy suggests that despite Bitcoin’s growing popularity, it is still in its early stages of adoption.</p> 
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 <p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bitcoin</a> is at 4.7% world adoption, this is the same as Jan 1999 for Internet Adoption.</p> 
 <p>You are still early… and that's backed by the best data available. <a href="https://t.co/bq9P50Nban">https://t.co/bq9P50Nban</a> <a href="https://t.co/dyyRSFLrC3">pic.twitter.com/dyyRSFLrC3</a></p> 
 <p>— Willy Woo (@woonomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1786348759607337471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2024</a></p>
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<p>Woo’s assertion underscores the potential for further growth and adoption of Bitcoin, highlighting that individuals and institutions alike have yet to fully embrace the cryptocurrency.</p> 
<p>The post <a href="https://coingape.com/bitcoin-blockchain-processes-one-billionth-transaction-next-billion-coming-soon/">Bitcoin Blockchain Processes One-Billionth Transaction, Next Billion Coming Soon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://coingape.com">CoinGape</a>.</p>

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