Satoshi had class. Referencing bailouts and government interference in money, while also demonstrating a provable timestamp was 🤌:
If you were starting the Bitcoin blockchain today, what would you put in the genesis block?
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Satoshi had class. Referencing bailouts and government interference in money, while also demonstrating a provable timestamp was 🤌:
If you were starting the Bitcoin blockchain today, what would you put in the genesis block?
Ligma
Probably my grocery list.
Honestly, if you read that article, there's very few others that capture the moment that well in 2009.
newspaper are one of the best things
What did not exist back in the day were provable randomness beacons - excellent choice for them as well
The Times, 1 July 2026: Starmer puts Burnham in £5bn defence black hole
With only 96 bytes, maybe something like:
I wouldn't have thought of using a newspaper title. It has the nice property of dating genesis, putting it in context, though.