On Tuesday (3 January 2023), Bitcoin is celebrating the 14th anniversary of the mining of the genesis block (i.e. block 0 of the Bitcoin network) by Bitcoin\u2019s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n
Here are a few reactions from the crypto community:<\/p>\n
On 31 October 2022, the crypto community celebrated the 14th anniversary of the release of\u00a0Bitcoin\u2019s white paper.<\/p>\n
It was on 31 October 2008 that Satoshi released\u00a0Bitcoin\u2019s white paper, which was titled \u201cBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System\u201d. The original goal for Bitcoin was to be \u201ca purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash\u201d that \u201cwould allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is how Satoshi announced the release of this white paper on the Cryptography Mailing List:<\/p>\n
Hal Finney, the person person to receive BTC from satoshi,\u00a0wrote\u00a0eight days later that if Bitcoin one day became the \u201cdominant payment system in use throughout the world\u201d, each Bitcoin could be worth $10 million.<\/p>\n