A person or group of persons under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin mainnet on January 3, 2009 by mining a genesis block with 50 BTC.
Its hash contains the title of the article "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" from the British edition of The Times.
On October 31, 2008, shortly before the launch of the network, the crypto's white paper was published.
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It should be noted that the first transaction took place on January 12, 2009. In it, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney. The version 0.1 of the Bitcoin software was released three days earlier.
Nakamoto's identity and the motives behind the creation of Bitcoin remain a mystery.
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It appears that one of the likely reasons for the creation of Bitcoin was the global financial crisis that erupted in 2007-2008.