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Major crypto exchange Binance spotlights a milestone in Bitcoin's history: Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto first registered on Bitcoin forum BitcoinTalk 16 years ago this month, in November 2009. Binance highlighted this as the journey that changed finance forever.
BitcoinTalk is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software discuss with each other. The forum also accommodates people interested in Bitcoin mining, in trading with Bitcoin and in the economics of Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin forum has undergone various iterations since the Bitcoin idea was conceived. Before the present BitcoinTalk forum, Satoshi used the SourceForge forum, which has been lost. When Sirius provided hosting, the forum for Bitcoin's discussion was moved to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum's software and theme.
The forum for Bitcoin discussion was later, at some point, moved to forum.bitcoin.org. The bitcoin.org domain name was also transferred from Satoshi to Sirius.
The BitcoinTalk forum became the main public forum for Bitcoin discussion, where Satoshi made his last known post in April 2011 before disappearing from the project.
Key Bitcoin dates
On Aug. 18, 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered. Later that year, on Oct. 31, a link to Bitcoin's whitepaper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was posted to a cryptography mailing list.
The Bitcoin network came into existence on Jan. 3, 2009, with Satoshi Nakamoto mining the genesis block of Bitcoin (block number 0), which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins.
The first open source Bitcoin client was released on Jan. 9, 2009, hosted at SourceForge. The date Jan. 12, 2009, marked the world's first Bitcoin transaction — when Hal Finney received 10 BTC from Satoshi Nakamoto.
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