Fact #67 Maximum

There is a maximum of 21 billion DigiByte that will ever exist. This was intentionally chosen as a 1000:1 ratio compared to Bitcoins 21 million. No more can ever be created.

October 11, 2021
Fact #34 Second-layer networks

You can build second-layer networks on top of DigiByte such as #DigiAssets, Lightning Networks, ICOs, Tokens, assets and more.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #33 Casebase

DigiByte was originally based on a fork of the Litecoin casebase (Though, a 100% independent blockchain with unique Genesis Block). DigiByte has since maintained closer features with Bitcoin, while also significantly innovating and surpassing it. You can see the code at: https://github.com/digibyte-core/digibyte/

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October 11, 2021
Fact #32 Launched

When DigiByte launched, there was a count-down to the release of the code, and to the first block being mined. This was one of the things done to encourage a "fair" distribution, right from the very beginning in 2014.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #31 Popular Core

The most popular Core Digibyte Wallet so far was our 6.14.2 release, with 200,000 downloads.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #30 Securing the network

When all DigiByte have been mined, the network will continue to function with the miners / securing the network as they do at present. They will only get the transaction fees from sending $DGB.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #29 Swaps with others

DigiByte can be used for Atomic Swaps with other blockchains safely and securely since the implementation of SegWit in early 2017. There is no need for a second layer network to perform this and it can instead be done directly.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #28 The last DigiByte

The last DigiByte will be mined by the year 2035. There is less than half of all remaining $DGB waiting to be mined by anybody in the world. These are not "owned" by anybody, unlike an ICO, and will be newly "minted".

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Fact #27 Worldwide Development

The development of DigiByte is done by a worldwide team of volunteers, who all donate their time out of a love for the project. There is not central company employing and paying people, it's all given freely by our incredible developers and supporting community.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #26 Digi-ID

Digi-ID by DigiByte is one of the simplest yet most secure authentication methods in the world. Even Google recommends not using their own time-based 2FA codes or SMS-2FA, but Digi-ID overcomes all the shortcomings. Digi-ID is free & ad-free (forever), private & secure.

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October 11, 2021
Fact #25 Wallets

DigiByte has wallets for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS and even Chrome OS. We are also supported on several dozen other 3rd party & hardware wallets, each unique from the others.

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