Card IX-14: GENESIS DAY – Satoshi creates the first block. With it begins humanity’s first digital money that needs no bank, no state and no permission. For more than five days it stands alone. Then block 1 follows, and the chain has kept growing ever since.

Anniversary · 3 January · THE ARCHIVE

Satoshi creates the first block. With it begins humanity’s first digital money that needs no bank, no state and no permission. For more than five days it stands alone. Then block 1 follows, and the chain has kept growing ever since.

GENESIS DAY · BLOCK 0 · 03.01.2009

Turn it over, answer, sign – free, no account.

Source

Fact · Block 0, 2009-01-03 18:15:05 UTC (mempool.space/block/0), coinbase text “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” (Bitcoin Core, src/kernel/chainparams.cpp); block 1, 2009-01-09 02:54:25 UTC (mempool.space/block/1)

Open source · mempool.space ↗

The question on the back

Who stands between you and your money today?