The genesis era — seven sparks that lit the fire. Scroll through the rainbow.
The domain bitcoin.org is anonymously registered — the first public appearance of the word that would change money forever. Nobody knew who did it.
Satoshi Nakamoto publishes "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" to the cryptography mailing list. Nine pages. No hype. Just math.
The genesis block is mined and the Bitcoin network blinks into existence. Satoshi embeds a message in it — a timestamp, and a mission statement:
Cypherpunk Hal Finney downloads the software and becomes the second person ever to run it. He announces it to the world in two words on Twitter:
Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney — the first bitcoin transaction in history. Worth exactly $0 at the time. Value had gone digital.
Laszlo Hanyecz buys two pizzas for 10,000 BTC — the first commercial transaction. Celebrated every year as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Satoshi posts a final message on the Bitcointalk forum and quietly walks away. The creator disappears; the creation never stops.