ChainCatcher Message, the Bitcoin genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, at 2:15:05 PM (Beijing time January 4, 2009), with a block reward of 50 BTC. As of today, it has been 16 years, and the total Bitcoin block height has reached 877566.

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