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14th Anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block: A Look Back at the Birth of Cryptocurrency

14 years ago on Jan. 3, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network and block zero at approximately 1:15 p.m. (ET) on a Saturday afternoon. Satoshi’s technology allows “online payments…

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250 Bitcoin From 2009 Moved After 12.4 Years — Rare BTC Mined Over a 2-Day Span

On April 7th and 8th, 2022, approximately five bitcoin block rewards mined in 2009 were spent in a concession of transfers. The last time a 2009 block was spent was…

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While BTC’s Price Slid Lower, a Miner Spent an 11-Year-Old Block Reward from 2010 Worth $1.8M

Following the large string of block rewards from 2010 spent in November 2021, no block rewards from that year were discovered in December and throughout the next month up until…

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