On this day in history: 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto released Bitcoin V0.1 Alpha version

MarsBitNews · 2026-01-17T13:45:38+00:00

On January 17, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin client v0.1, supporting users to run nodes and introducing IRC chat functionality and a virtual poker game framework, but the latter was removed in version v0.8.2.

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2026-01-17 13:45:38

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Mars Finance reports that on this day 17 years ago, January 17, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the first version of the Bitcoin client v0.1, namely: Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha, supporting anyone to run their own node from any computer. It is reported that the source code of Bitcoin 0.1.0 also included an Internet chat (IRC) client, aimed at creating a simpler message passing method. It also included a framework for creating virtual poker games, which was added to the Bitcoin version on April 16, 2008, and was completely removed after Bitcoin 0.8.2.

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