TechFlow news: The Bitcoin genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009 (Beijing time: January 4, 2009, at 02:15:05) within a small server located in Helsinki, Finland, with a block reward of 50 BTC. As of today, Bitcoin has reached its 16th anniversary, and the total block height has reached 877,566.
In the CoinBase data of the genesis block, Satoshi Nakamoto embedded the front-page headline of The Times newspaper from that day: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." The block contains only one transaction, rewarding 50 bitcoins.
As of now, the price of Bitcoin stands at $96,875.5, with a market capitalization exceeding $1.91 trillion.
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