During the November 2013 price surge, daily Bitcoin transaction volume briefly exceeds PayPal's for the first time. As BTC rockets toward $1,000, the dollar value of on-chain transactions surpasses the payments giant that once froze WikiLeaks' account. The milestone is a powerful symbolic moment -- a five-year-old open-source protocol with no CEO, no headquarters, and no employees is moving more value in a day than one of the world's largest payment processors.
Wikipedia: History of Bitcoin