{"id":15248,"date":"2020-01-03T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-genesis-of-bitcoin-3\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:16:49","slug":"the-genesis-of-bitcoin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-genesis-of-bitcoin-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genesis of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4303\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bitcoin-genesis-block.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[4302] attachment wp-att-4303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4303\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/b36db__bitcoin-genesis-block-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"This isn't really the Bitcoin Genesis Block, but you knew that, right?\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bitcoin-genesis-block-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bitcoin-genesis-block-768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bitcoin-genesis-block.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This isn&#8217;t really the Bitcoin Genesis Block, but you knew that, right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>January 3, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The pseudonymous Bitcoin creator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satoshi_Nakamoto\" target=\"_blank\">Satoshi Nakamoto<\/a>\u00a0mines the first 50 bitcoins, now known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bitcoin.it\/wiki\/Genesis_block\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis Block<\/a>, six days before the <a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/09\/bitcoin-launched\/\">initial release of the bitcoin software and\u00a0launch of the cryptocurrency\u00a0network<\/a>. Bitcoin has become the de-facto digital currency, popular for its\u00a0decentralized approach because no single entity can control, manipulate, or deactivate\u00a0the currency and transactions can be highly\u00a0private\u00a0yet still remain secure.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/03\/the-genesis-of-bitcoin\/\">The Genesis of Bitcoin<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/19e1a__13118547.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/13118547\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really the Bitcoin Genesis Block, but you knew that, right? January 3, 2009 The pseudonymous Bitcoin creator\u00a0Satoshi Nakamoto\u00a0mines the first 50 bitcoins, now known as the Genesis Block, six days before the initial release of the bitcoin software and\u00a0launch of the cryptocurrency\u00a0network. Bitcoin has become the de-facto digital currency, popular for its\u00a0decentralized approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4214,4282],"class_list":["post-15248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-bitcoin","tag-genesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}