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Bitcoin Genesis Block Celebrates 17th Anniversary
Summary: According to reports, it has been 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Bitcoin Genesis Block #0 on a small server in Helsinki, Finland on January 3, 2009. In the Genesis Block's CoinBase data, Nakamoto included the headline from The Times on that day: 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.' ...
According to reports, it has been 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Bitcoin Genesis Block #0 on a small server in Helsinki, Finland on January 3, 2009.
In the Genesis Block's CoinBase data, Nakamoto included the headline from The Times on that day: 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.' There was only one transaction in the block, with a block reward of 50 bitcoins.
