Then why was the first thing stored in the blockchain is non monetary data
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Pretty good point, the genesis block is very special and unspendable, but I see what you're saying
Then you might misunderstand that since there could be no previous block hash to include Satoshi did this as proof. It was monetary data in that respect. It was proof the Genesis block was not faked.