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Market value
$1.7T
Traded in 24 hours
$17.0B
Coins
20.1M BTC in circulation, and in total
Highest price ever
$126,080.00 6 October 2025
Rank
#1
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In its own words

“Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.”

Checked 27 Sep 2026 at bitcoin.org (opens in a new tab)

Published, not verified.

Genesis, Bitcoin

First block
Blockstream (opens in a new tab)

Block 0. Every later block points back to this one.

Made
3 January 2009, 18:15 UTCBlockstream (opens in a new tab)
Signed by
Satoshi Nakamoto, a name whose owner is not publicly knownbitcoin.org (opens in a new tab)

The project's own words: “Satoshi left the project in late 2010 without revealing much about himself.”

Bitcoin's first
block
stamped a message. The coins in that block will never be spent.
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
Message written into the first blockBlockstream (opens in a new tab)

“its coinbase is unspendable”GitHub (bitcoin/bitcoin) (opens in a new tab)

A genesis block. Bitcoin is the native coin of the Bitcoin chain, and its first coins were created in that chain's first
block
on 3 January 2009.

Blockstream (opens in a new tab)

Bitcoin's whitepaper was signed by Satoshi Nakamoto.bitcoin.org (opens in a new tab)

Whitepaper
bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
bitcoin.org (opens in a new tab)
Official site
bitcoin.org
bitcoin.org (opens in a new tab)
Show the technical record
First transaction

The one transaction in block 0. It created 50 bitcoin out of nothing, which is what every block's first transaction does.

Blockstream (opens in a new tab)
Paid to

Those 50 bitcoin cannot be spent. Bitcoin's own software never counts the first block's payment as spendable.

Blockstream (opens in a new tab)
Listed start date
3 January 2009
CoinGecko (opens in a new tab)

Checked 22 Sep 2026. A record of beginnings, not advice.

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