$BTC
• Genesis block and historical message: On January 3, 2009, the network officially went live when Satoshi successfully mined the first block of data (called the Genesis Block) with a reward of 50 Bitcoin. Notably, he secretly embedded a headline from The Times into this block: *"Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"* to mock the weaknesses of the traditional financial system at that time.
• The first transaction in the world: On January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 Bitcoin to programmer Hal Finney as a test of the system.
