main.cpp at the first commit of Bitcoin's version history (4405b78d, "First commit", author sirius-m, i.e. Martti Malmi's SourceForge account, 2009-08-30 03:46:39 UTC; the git history is an import of the SourceForge Subversion repository). Lines 1459–1500 build the genesis block, including the Times text. MIT/X11 licence, "Copyright (c) 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto"

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main.cpp at the first commit of Bitcoin's version history (4405b78d, "First commit", author sirius-m, i.e. Martti Malmi's SourceForge account, 2009-08-30 03:46:39 UTC; the git history is an import of the SourceForge Subversion repository). Lines 1459–1500 build the genesis block, including the Times text. MIT/X11 licence, "Copyright (c) 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto"
Issuer or author: Satoshi Nakamoto (code); repository bitcoin/bitcoin
Date: 2009-08-30
Original: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898/main.cpp

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