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No, Today Is Not Bitcoin’s Birthday

Observe Aaron on Nostr or X.

Some issues in Bitcoin are simply not up for debate.

The plural of bitcoin can be bitcoin— not bitcoins. (One bitcoin, two bitcoin, three bitcoin…) Bits is a greater sub-denomination than sats. (100 sats is definitely one bit, like a 100 cents is one greenback; being a wholecoiner makes you the Bitcoin-equivalent of a millionaire, as that may imply you’ve got one million bits.) And October thirty first shouldn’t be Bitcoin’s birthday.

Bitcoin’s birthday is January third. It says so proper there in block 0: 2009-01-03 19:15:05 GMT +1. On that day Bitcoin’s blockchain launched, with 50 newly generated cash issued to Satoshi Nakamoto’s public key. (However from which Bitcoin’s creator can not spend in accordance with the protocol guidelines; since Satoshi was the one one that might have created the genesis block, that may have successfully constituted a 50 BTC pre-mine.)

Sure, Bitcoin was first proposed via Satoshi’s white paper on October 31, 2008. However you don’t have a good time your birthday on the day your mother informed your dad she needed to have a child. Nor do you have a good time it on the day your dad and mom conceived you, or on the day they introduced you to the world through a gender reveal celebration.

You have a good time your birthday on the day you have been born, and the identical is true for Bitcoin. January third.

Completely happy Bitcoin White Paper Day.

This text is a Take. Opinions expressed are completely the creator’s and don’t essentially replicate these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.