Happy Birthday BITCOIN! 9 Years Ago Today - The Genesis (first) Block Was Mined!

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Many people are aware of bitcoin now, and the Bitcoin network as being proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto in his white paper (www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf) that was published in October 2008. That would be Date #1 that is important here.

However, the real birthday for bitcoin to many people, is January 3, 2009. That would be Date #2.

On that first day the Genesis (first block) block of 50 bitcoin was mined which is now worth around $740,000 based on yesterday’s 4:00 pm Gemini exchange settlement price of $14,880.

By the way it is estimated that Satoshi ( whomever they are) has about 980,000 bitcoin which is worth roughly $14.5 billion based on yesterday’s Gemini New York settlement price.


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Only if we knew about it then and bought into it :/

I did a year or 2 later and blew it off LOL

Bitcoin! Happy Birthday. Thanks for the post. Always looking forward to your post.

Happy Birthday Bitcoin, thanks for changing my life.

Great reply, other Barry!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Bitcoin!

Indeed.

Well done and many of us are happy!!!!

We are very expectant and looking forward to a successful 2018!

indeed happy birthday to the king of crypto you have done us proud

Bitcoin indeed has helped a lot of people.

Nice spam.

Nice flags for that also.

@barrydutton Why did you flag this as spam. It could be interesting topic for the readers who is reading about BTC. Could you please elaborate more because I am newbie here. Thanks!!!

Great post commemorating Bitcoin's Birthday. I wonder what the price will be on its next birthday!

it will have more 0's.

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Haha i like it!!

Nice one Here, reminding us of the early beginning of bitcoin. The digital currency have made history, break barriers, and made many billionaires. It opened way to other digital currency in the world, cryptocurrncy lovers are proud to celebrate your birthday.

That is well said, nothing much can be added to that one!

Thanks for the comment!

Has it been 9 years? Woah, I'm old. May Bitcoin continue that rise and the cryptocurrency revolution continues! :)

How many years ago did some friend of a friend of a friend whisper they found this crazy thing called bitcoin and we all laughed. well joke on us if they kept with it and din't sell till now they are set up for life!