SATOSHI'S UNSOLVED MYSTERY. HE LEFT US A MESSAGE

We'll be going over some of the most interesting and intriguing facts about the Genesis Block. Quick background information the "Genesis Block" was the very first block in the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes that's right, the very first. Uno, Yi, un, one. Mini fun fact to get us started, there was such thing as an absent of blocks. Meaning, there wasn't always a block to be mined. There was in fact, block 0. Yeah, yeah that's great. Anyways let's get right into it!
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Fun fact #1: The Satoshi PC

Bitcoin mining has truly come a long ways. However, like any coin, everyone's got to start somewhere. Back during the Genesis Block, it can be suspected that the very first Bitcoin block was mined solely with a CPU. The reasoning behind this is because ASIC miners did not come to the market until 2013. In addition, GPU couldn't have been possible either as GPU mining wasn't introduced until 2011, 2 years after the first block. Thus this leads us to beleive the only possible way Satoshi could've mined this was simply using a CPU. Now, keep in mind at this time Satoshi was the only 'miner' of the Bitcoin network making it simple to mine with such hardware. Good luck trying to mine with a CPU nowdays, let me know how that works out for you.

Fun fact #2: The Genesis Block

Oh the blockchain, what a wonderful invention. Arguably one of the most important inventions of the 21st century. The Genesis Block was no ordinary block. The following is the hex of the block: 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
This block should be noted that the difficulty to mine this block was insanely easy to solve. Again, it only took a CPU to mine so give Satoshi some slack being the only miner. Lastly, something remarkable was mentioned in the blocks arbitrary data. The words Satoshi Nakamoto left us, "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". So you might be thinking, why would he say that, why not something like, "Hello Blockchain" or something totally out of this world. Well, these words were chosen for one sole reason. To prove the he couldn't have mined his block earlier than the morning of January 3rd. Chancellor on a brink of second bailout for banks was actually a real headline in the Financial Times. Wanna guess when? You guessed it! January 3rd 2009.

Fun fact #3: The Time To Find Block 1

With Satoshi being the only miner at the time, it surprising that it took a whopping 6 days to find block 1 from block 0. Check it out below.

Block 0: 2009-01-03 18:15:05
Block 1: 2009-01-09 02:54:25

Hmm something seems off. Satoshi designed the first blocks to be extremely easy to mine. With that said, why did it take 6 days? Is there something were not being told? (Well, we weren't told anything actually. So, yeah). Theory goes he either took a break, or he purposely made it take 6 days to relate to the six days God took to create the world. A bit of a far stretch, but possible I suppose.

Before I ends things in this post, if you haven't already please do upvote and resteem the heck out of this post. It was a bunch of fun to write. I learned a lot doing so, and I hope you did too!

Finally I'll leave you with a quote:

"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."

- Satoshi Nakamoto