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Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first fifty tokens. The computational milestone was dubbed the "genesis block" and followed by the first Bitcoin transaction about a week later, when ten of the digital coins were sent to American software developer Harold "Hal" Finney, thus proving the network's functionality and establishing the main pillar of foundational Bitcoin lore