Mining
MiningEpoch
Genesis Block Mined
Satoshi mined block #0, embedding The Times headline in the coinbase transaction.
People
Hardware
Related Events
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block (block height 0) with a 50 BTC reward. The coinbase transaction permanently embedded the headline: 'The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.' This serves as both a timestamp and a political statement about the motivation behind Bitcoin.
Tags
#genesis#block-0
Sources
What else happened around this time?
ProtocolEpoch
Bitcoin Whitepaper Published
Satoshi Nakamoto published the 9-page Bitcoin whitepaper to the cryptography mailing list.
#whitepaper#satoshi
PeopleEpoch
First Bitcoin Transaction
Satoshi sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney in block 170.
#first-transaction#hal-finney
ProtocolEpoch
Bitcoin v0.1 Released
First open-source Bitcoin client released on SourceForge.
#software#open-source