Bitcoin turning 12: From the Genesis block to Wall Street adoption
The Bitcoin network as we know it today officially kicked off exactly 12 years ago when Satoshi Nakamoto released the first software client. Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown Bitcoin creator, released the first client network on this day 12 years ago, officially kickstarting what is perhaps the greatest monetary revolution of the 21st century. Six days prior, on Jan. 3, 2009, Satoshi mined the Genesis block, known as #0, coding it into the software. Unlike the subsequent blocks in the chain, the coin base reward from the Genesis block cannot be spent, as only publicly mined “coins” can be....
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