Today is the 16th anniversary of the birth of the Bitcoin genesis block

PANews reported on January 3 that the Bitcoin genesis block was dug out by Satoshi Nakamoto on the afternoon of January 3, 2009 (02:15:05 on January 4, 2009, Beijing time). The block reward 50 BTC, it has been 16 years since its birth as of today, and the current total block height of Bitcoin reaches 877566.

In the genesis block, Satoshi Nakamoto recorded the Times’ front page headline of the day in the CoinBase data of the genesis block: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks (The Chancellor is standing On the verge of a second bailout of the banking sector).”