Bitcoin’s Genesis Block: A 15-Year Retrospective
On January 3, 2009, an individual or group operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin mainnet, mining the genesis block containing 50 BTC. Embedded in its hash is the headline from The Times: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” Shortly before the network’s launch, on October 31, 2008, the Bitcoin white […]