17 years since the launch of the Bitcoin mainnet.

On January 3, 2009, an individual or group of individuals using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched the mainnet of the first cryptocurrency, mining the genesis block containing 50 BTC. Its hash contains the headline of an article in the British newspaper The Times, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," a reference to the 2008 financial crisis and the article's themes criticizing the taxpayer-funded bailout of banks.

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