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January 3

What happened in Bitcoin on January 3: The genesis block (2009).

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Turning points on January 3.

2009

The genesis block

Block 0 is mined. Its coinbase carries a newspaper headline, still readable in the raw data today.

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Block 0 · January 3, 2009 · 18:15:05 UTC
SATOSHI ON BITCOIN ECONOMICS
The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his…
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