After the first Bitcoin block, or the Genesis block, was mined in early 2009, the first Bitcoin transaction took place on January 12. Who was the first BTC receiver? Track the history of Bitcoin with BTCMEX.
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After the Genesis block creation, it took 6 days until the next block was mined on January 9, 2009. The same day, Nakamoto published the Bitcoin Core version 0.1 software on bitcoin.org. Bitcoin Core is the program that made both mining and peer-to-peer coin transactions possible.
Hal Finney — the first Bitcoin adopter — downloaded and started running the program on his computer the same day and tweeted about the software the next day, on January 10, 2009. “Running bitcoin”, — said his message.
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