Bitcoin's genesis block was mined 14 years ago
On January 3, 2009, a person or group of people under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto launched/-and the main Bitcoin network by mining a genesis block with 50 BTC.
Its hash contains the title of the article "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" by the British edition of The Times.
The first transaction took place on January 12, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney. Three days before, Bitcoin software version 0.1 was published.