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The genesis block of bitcoin was mined 13 years ago. On January 3, 2009, a person or group of people under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched/-and the main bitcoin network, mining the genesis block with 50 BTC. His hash contains the title of the article "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" by the British edition of The Times. The launch of the network was preceded by the publication of bitcoin white paper (October 31, 2008). The first transaction took place on January 12, 2009 — Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney. Three days before that, the Bitcoin 0.1 version was published. Nakamoto's identity and the motives for creating bitcoin still remain a mystery that is being tried to solve in the crypto community and beyond. It is possible that one of the incentives for the creation of bitcoin was the global financial crisis that broke out in 2007-2008, accompanied by the collapse of the largest investment banks, a widespread decline in production volumes, falling demand and prices for raw materials, rising unemployment and active state intervention in the economy. In November 2021, the first cryptocurrency updated the maximum at around $69,000. At the same time, miners mined 90% of the coins from the total bitcoin issue. Today, the weighted average BTC exchange rate is at $ 47,000, and the capitalization of the flagship market is $891.8 billion.