{"id":32771,"date":"2020-12-03T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32771"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:22:12","slug":"bitcoins-oldest-mining-pool-immortalises-bullish-newspaper-headline-in-a-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoins-oldest-mining-pool-immortalises-bullish-newspaper-headline-in-a-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin&#8217;s oldest mining pool immortalises bullish newspaper headline in a block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 December, the oldest mining pool SlushPool immortalised in block #659678 of the Bitcoin network a Reuters headline &#8220;Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; bitcoin hits all-time peak&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our miners asked us to immortalise it.<\/p>\n<p>Block 659678: Reuters 01\/Dec\/2020 Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; bitcoin hits all-time peak<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pmzK3HXhpw\">https:\/\/t.co\/pmzK3HXhpw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKpvlj9TC4\">pic.twitter.com\/LKpvlj9TC4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Slush Pool | Braiins (OS+) (@slush_pool) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slush_pool\/status\/1334274480898654208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The article describes the U.S. dollar weakening as Bitcoin reached an all-time high above <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-hits-new-high-above-19900-as-ethereum-reaches-636\">$19,900<\/a> on December 1.<\/p>\n<p>The pool&#8217;s miners decided to &#8216;immortalise&#8217; the bullish headline about Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>This is a nod to the genesis block of Bitcoin, signed by Satoshi Nakamoto. The creator of the first cryptocurrency included in it The Times&#8217; headline from January 3, 2009: &#8216;Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June 2020, one of the cryptocurrency&#8217;s users added the message &#8216;Hi, Noah! Welcome to this world, little one&#8217; in one of the transactions, thereby recording the birth of his first child.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 December, the oldest mining pool SlushPool immortalised in block #659678 of the Bitcoin network a Reuters headline &#8216;Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; Bitcoin hits a new high&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,2041,915],"class_list":["post-32771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-blocks","tag-slush-pool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32773,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32771\/revisions\/32773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}