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Genesis block mined
Satoshi Nakamoto mined the Genesis Block (Block 0) of the Bitcoin blockchain, embedding the now-famous headline from The Times: 'Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.'
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Bitcoin v0.1 released
Hal Finney responds to Thornburg's regulatory concerns, arguing that Bitcoin has no single point of failure — 'no mint, no company with officers that can be subpoenaed and arrested and shut down.' He identifies the 'decentralized, global, irreversible transaction database' as Bitcoin's core innovation, presciently predicting the broader blockchain movement.
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Re: Embedded messages in the block chain
Satoshi comments on the permanence of the blockchain, noting that data embedded in it will persist as long as the network exists.