Young people should be full of energy. Twenty years ago, in 2006, a young man named Ma Huateng challenged the authority of the Renminbi. The concept of virtual currency and the economic model of exchanging virtual assets were initially hinted at. At this point, virtual currency and blockchain were unrelated. Two and a half years later, on January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block was mined, marking block height 0. The blockchain began running, and Bitcoin was truly born—entering the first year of virtual currency under the dominance of blockchain and Bitcoin.
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Young people should be full of energy. Twenty years ago, in 2006, a young man named Ma Huateng challenged the authority of the Renminbi. The concept of virtual currency and the economic model of exchanging virtual assets were initially hinted at. At this point, virtual currency and blockchain were unrelated. Two and a half years later, on January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block was mined, marking block height 0. The blockchain began running, and Bitcoin was truly born—entering the first year of virtual currency under the dominance of blockchain and Bitcoin.