January 3rd marks the 17th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto mining the Bitcoin Genesis Block block #0 on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, on January 3, 2009.
Satoshi Nakamoto recorded the Times' front-page headline in the Genesis Block's CoinBase data: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." The block contained only one transaction, and the block reward was 50 bitcoins.
As of the time of writing, Bitcoin was priced at $90,011.13, with a market capitalization exceeding $1.8 trillion.




