"And he made sure that the very first transaction on the very first block of Bitcoin's existence was timestamped with that headline. Permanently, forever, on every single copy of the Bitcoin blockchain in the world."

… ystem 3 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 worked. So, when Satoshi quoted that headline, the message was unmistakable. They did it once, now they were doing it again. This was exactly what he was building against. And he made sure that the very first transaction on the very first block of Bitcoin's existence was timestamped with that headline. Permanently, forever, on every single copy of the Bitcoin blockchain in the world. Just stop and think about what that actually means. The founder of Bitcoin could have put anything in there. A poem, a quote, a philosophical statement, a signature, literally anything. And instead, he chose a newspaper headline about bank bailouts, which means Bitcoin's birth certificate, the actual founding document of the entire system, is by d …

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