13 years ago today, the anonymous creator of the Bitcoin protocol kickstarted the network by mining the genesis block.
Satoshi started the genesis block on Saturday, January 3, 2009, at precisely 1:15 p.m. , and since then more than 700,000 blocks have been mined into existence.Today, bitcoiners and cryptocurrency advocates worldwide are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin network’s launch. On this day, 13 years ago, Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto launched the genesis block, otherwise known as “block zero.
Many people are unaware that the Bitcoin protocol did not produce another block until six days after the genesis block was mined. It is assumed Satoshi had a reason for this wait time, as it resembles something out of Machiavellian folklore or the King James Bible’s Genesis tale when the earth was created in seven days.
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Bitcoin network with a standard personal computer or central processing unit . It is assumed Nakamoto was a Microsoft user, and the protocol’s codebase was written in the coding language C++. In addition to the coding language, users leveraged a Windows GUI mining application to mine
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