According to PANews on January 3, the Bitcoin Genesis Block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on the afternoon of January 3, 2009 (02:15:05 Beijing time on January 4, 2009). The block reward was 50 BTC. As of today, it has been 16 years since its birth. The current total block height of Bitcoin has reached 877,566.

In the genesis block, Satoshi Nakamoto recorded the front-page headline of the Times in the CoinBase data of the genesis block: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."