{"id":367098,"date":"2019-01-03T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/?p=367098"},"modified":"2024-06-11T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:32:20","slug":"happy-tenth-birthday-bitcoin-bitmex-crypto-community-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniquehot.com\/news\/happy-tenth-birthday-bitcoin-bitmex-crypto-community-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Tenth Birthday, Bitcoin: BitMEX, Crypto Community Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"
In late-October, NewsBTC reported that Bitcoin turned ten<\/a>. While this was factually accurate, the world’s first cryptocurrency turns a decade-old yet again on January 3rd, as Satoshi Nakamoto processed the first official block on this exact day, only ten years ago. This industry occurrence\u00a0didn’t go unnoticed, as crypto enthusiasts en bloc(k) have taken to Twitter, expressing their love for Bitcoin’s inherent ability to turn the centralized establishment on its head. Even BitMEX, one of the most influential crypto startups in 2018, got in on the fun.<\/p>\n Ten years ago, sequestered away from the outside world, Satoshi Nakamoto, the individual or group responsible for Bitcoin’s birth, mined the first block. And while the network’s origins were nothing spectacular \u2014 as rumor has it that Satoshi mined blocks with a mere mid-range desktop, which probably ran loud and hot \u2014 a revolutionary force was set in motion nonetheless.<\/p>\n Bitcoin’s creator acknowledged the potential paradigm-shifting power of their innovation, transcoding a pertinent headline from The Times<\/em>, a British newspaper, into the Genesis Block. Nakamoto never explicitly stated the reason behind the headline, which read “Chancellor on brink of [the] second bailout for banks,” but many decentralists claim that it was an evident jab at centralized financial entities. So, it has become widely agreed that this wasn’t any old headline snagged from one of the internet\u2019s thousands of RSS feeds, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n Now, On January 3rd, 2019, BitMEX, the Hong Kong-headquartered<\/a> exchange that has rapidly become the de-facto hub for cryptocurrency traders, took to Twitter to give its community a bit of a surprise. Through a tweet that has been shared to hell and back, the exchange, estimated to have made<\/a> $1.2 billion in fiscal 2018, revealed that it left a cheeky message in Thursday’s installment of The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Happy 10th Birthday Bitcoin! pic.twitter.com\/DpOPjojsOd<\/a><\/p>\n — BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) January 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHappy (Actual) 10th Birthday, Bitcoin!<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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