In 2018, die DigiByte community raised enough funds to supply Venezuelan refugees crossing the border with over a thousand bottles of water, feed 160 orphaned children for a month, provide essential maintenance for a Hospital, refurbish an Adicora school kitchen and hosting several free community lunches for hundreds of people.

In 2019, DigiByte upgraded the network, replacing the Myriad-Groestl algorithm for Odocrypt, to specifically target FPGA mining making that algorithm ASIC-resistant.

Originally DigiByte only used Script for mining. The network upgraded to MultiAlgo, utilising Script, SHA256, Skein, Qubit & Myriad-Groestl.

DigiByte was the first coin to upgrade from a single mining algorithm to MultiAlgo, for the additional security provided by having 5x algorithms. This upgrades occurred in late 2014 as the "MultiAlgo" network upgrade.

"USA Today: 10/Jan/2014, Target: Data stolen from up to 110M customers" was saved into the "Genesis Block" of DigiByte, forever cementing the focus on Cybersecurity.

DigiByte was the first non-Bitcoin blockchain to fix the major inflation bug in 2018. Rapid response from our rock-star developers!

DigiByte pioneered the DigiShield difficulty adjustment. It is used in Dogecoin, Ubiq, ZCash, Monacoin and parts of the code are even used in Ethereum. 

DigiByte fees are incredibly low.  It is 1/10th of a cent (USD). In Block 7658349 a user sent 342,000,000 DGB (6 Million $ worth at the time) from the inputs of over 200 different addresses. It cost 1/10th of a cent (USD) in fees and took only a few seconds to confirm. 

The DigiByte founder and developer purchased the coins on an exchange at the current market rates or mined their own DGB just like everyone else. 

There is no founders reward in DigiByte. Nobody gets part of each block reward except whoever mined it.