A look back at the bitcoin.org website from January 31, 2009, reveals its simplistic design and the details of the first open-source Bitcoin client, Bitcoin v0.1. The article also traces the history of Bitcoin from its creation in 2009 to Satoshi Nakamoto's departure in 2011 and the website's subsequent evolution.
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On Jan. 3, 2009, Bitcoin came into existence with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of Bitcoin , which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins. Satoshi's involvement with Bitcoin does not appear to go beyond mid-2010. In April 2011, Satoshi sent a message to a Bitcoin contributor, saying that he had"moved on to other things."From 2011 to 2013, the website was largely used to release new versions of the software currently known as Bitcoin Core.
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