History Today: Bitcoin Whitepaper Marks 18th Anniversary

October 31 — It has been 18 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" on the P2P foundation website.

The Bitcoin network was officially launched on January 3, 2009, with an initial trading price of $0.0008.

According to HTX market data, the current Bitcoin price is $77,376, with a total market capitalization of $1.56 trillion.