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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by ehsankia on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:25PM (#23148553)
For those like me who didn't understand the relevance, back in 2009, Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) put the following message in the very first block:

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

Back then it was a response to the 2008/9 financial crisis, which is what makes this new message relevant.

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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by k00b on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:39PM (#23149270)
Link to that very first block https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/0

The subsidy then was 50 BTC

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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by iso-8859-1 on Monday May 11, 2020 @09:30PM (#23149599)
Hardly a subsidy if it can't be spent ;)
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by tim333 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:33AM (#23150611)
The potential discounted future cash flows from it were good.
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Re:Bitcoin Halving Just Occured by sneak on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:31AM (#23153762)
I believe GP’s joke is about the minor technical issue that the very first block reward is unspendable in the blockchain, not that there was no market for it.
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