Today in history: The Bitcoin whitepaper was published 15 years ago.

BlockBeats reported on October 31st that it has been 15 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper "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 transaction price of 0.0008 USD. Since its launch, the value of Bitcoin has gradually increased by over 43 million times. According to market data, the current price of Bitcoin is 34,429.09 USD, with a total market value of 672.9 billion USD.