"Because inside that Genesis block, Satoshi embedded a message. Not in the protocol, not in a comment. He put it inside what's called the Coinbase parameter of the first transaction, which is a field where the miner can put arbitrary data. And the data he put there that has been preserved forever in the immutable record of every Bitcoin node on Earth read exactly this quote. The Times 03 January 2009, Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

… He mined the very first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, the genesis block, block zero, the foundation. And every Bitcoin transaction that has ever happened in the 17 years since ultimately traces back to that single block on that single day in January of 2009. And here's where the story becomes legend. Because inside that Genesis block, Satoshi embedded a message. Not in the protocol, not in a comment. He put it inside what's called the Coinbase parameter of the first transaction, which is a field where the miner can put arbitrary data. And the data he put there that has been preserved forever in the immutable record of every Bitcoin node on Earth read exactly this quote. The Times 03 January 2009, Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks. That was the headline from the front page of the Times of London that morning. A real newspaper, a real headline. The British government had just bailed out the banking system three months earlier in October of 2008 with a 500 billion pound rescue package. The January 3rd headline was about a second round being needed because the first one had not …