On January 3, 2009, a block with the number 0 was born in the Bitcoin network. It has no predecessor block, no transaction history, but carries a message that changed the world. Sixteen years later, this genesis block has become the most symbolic starting point in financial history.
Bitcoin has evolved from a geek experiment into a global financial asset. Currently, the BTC price reaches $88.36K, with a circulating market cap of $1.76 trillion, far beyond anyone's imagination at that time. And all of this originates from that simple yet great first block.
Genesis: A Message from the Financial Crisis
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block manually on January 3, 2009. This is not a random date — it coincides with the peak of the global financial crisis. That day, the headline news in The Times was: "Chancellor on brin