#比特币披萨节 Bitcoin's Birth: A "Digital Rhapsody" that Disrupted the Financial Order

In September 2008, the deafening crash of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy shattered the tranquility of the global financial system, leading to a stock market crash, bank runs, and a wave of unemployment. For the first time, people realized that the seemingly indestructible central bank system could collapse into ruins overnight. Amid this crisis of trust, a mysterious figure using the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" quietly emerged. On November 1, he published a paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" on a cryptography forum, proposing a currency system that "does not require a trusted third party." This mere 9-page paper was like a nuclear bomb dropped on traditional finance, and its core idea was to replace central banks with mathematical algorithms, replace bank vaults with distributed ledgers (blockchain), and replace human greed with the absolute fairness of code.
On January 3, 2009, the Genesis Block of Bitcoin was born on a server in Helsinki, Finland. Satoshi Nakamoto embedded a profound message in the block: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" — this was the front-page headline of The Times of London on that day. This statement not only serves as a timestamp for the financial crisis but also as a sharp satire on the traditional financial system. At this time, the Bitcoin network had only a handful of computers participating, and miners could easily mine using ordinary CPUs, but no one anticipated that this string of code would spark a financial revolution worth trillions.