Happy #Bitcoin Genesis Block Day! 🎉 Satoshi started it all on Jan 3, 2009, with Block 0, which had a 50 BTC reward that can't be spent, a message on bank bailouts, and officially started the Bitcoin blockchain.
Discussion
I didn't know they couldn't be spent. Why is that?
Here is some information by Grok:
":The Genesis Block had a mining reward of 50 BTC, which was sent to an address (1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa) from which it can never be spent. This has led to various theories about whether this was intentional or a result of how the block was coded."
My guess is this was intentional, otherwise it could be considered as pre-mined Bitcoin. In this way Satoshi made a proof-of-concept and then everyone was free around the world to mine Bitcoin in equal terms to Satoshi.