18-year-old Yolanda Renee King, the only grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has voted for the first time: “I would always tell people the importance of voting, but I could never participate myself as a voter."

18 years of the bitcoin whitepaper today -- so revisiting Chris Dixon on other software-related forum posts over the years (originally posted October 31 2018): 1/ There have been many great software-related forum posts over the years. Some favorites… 2/ Tim Berners Lee, proposing the World Wide Web in 1991. “The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone.” 3/ Linus Torvalds proposing Linux, also in 1991. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” 4/ Marc Andreessen proposing images for web browsers, in 1993. “I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG” 5/ And, of course, Satoshi proposing Bitcoin, [18] years ago today. “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without the burdens of going through a financial institution“

18 years ago today someone called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page document It was October 31, 2008, right in the middle of the biggest financial crisis in decades. Banks were collapsing, governments were spending hundreds of billions to rescue them, and people were losing trust in the financial system. He published something called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The idea was pretty simple: create a financial system where people could send money to each other without needing a bank or any other intermediary. A few months later, on January 3, 2009, the first Bitcoin block was mined. Inside it, Satoshi included a newspaper headline about another government bailout for banks. And look at what happened afterwards. 2009: 1 BTC was worth less than $0.001 2010: Someone bought two pizzas for 10,000 BTC 2011: Bitcoin reached $1 2013: Bitcoin crossed $1,000 2017: Bitcoin almost reached $20,000 2021: El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender 2024: Spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in the US 2025: Bitcoin reached $126,000 Today Bitcoin is trading at $77,000, with a market cap of $1.56 trillion. 95% of the 21 million BTC that will ever exist have already been mined. Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.

18 years ago today, in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis, an unknown person called Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page paper on a new kind of money called Bitcoin. Since then: - 2009: The Bitcoin network goes live, Satoshi sends the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney. - 2010: Someone pays 10,000 BTC for two pizzas - 2011: Bitcoin hits $1 - 2012: First halving - 2013: Bitcoin crosses $1,000 - 2016: Second halving - 2017: Bitcoin crosses $10,000, and CME launches Bitcoin futures - 2020: Third halving, and Strategy starts buying Bitcoin - 2021: Tesla buys $1.5B of Bitcoin, and El Salvador makes it legal tender, Bitcoin reaches a $1 trillion market cap - 2024: Spot Bitcoin ETFs launch, fourth halving, and Bitcoin crosses $100,000 - 2025: The US creates a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and Bitcoin hits a record $126,198 - The 20 millionth Bitcoin is mined. All of this without its creator, who disappeared in 2011 and has never been found. Happy 18th birthday, Bitcoin.