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Bitcoin's history.

On 31 October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto emailed a nine-page paper to a cryptography mailing list. Everything that followed is here, from two pizzas bought for 10,000 BTC to the halving due in 2028, each with its source and, where it happened on-chain, its block.

Price in US dollars from mempool.space, weekly from July 2010, on a log scale so each step up is ten times the one below. Dates after 30 Oct 2026 are estimates from recent block times.

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