THE FIRST BLOCK
What happened on 3 January 2009
On the evening of 3 January 2009, an anonymous programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of a new kind of ledger. Inside it, hidden in the coinbase transaction, sat a newspaper headline from that morning's Times: “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”
It was a timestamp, a protest, and a birth certificate in one line of text. Every block since — every chain, every token, every agent wallet — traces its ancestry back to that one block. Block one of everything.
BLOCK ONE is the archive of what came next: the twenty firsts that turned that single block into an industry. Twenty subjects, fifty-five editions each — and eleven gold BLOCK ZERO Specials that carry the genesis message itself. Special #001 is reserved for the creator; the other ten are in the draw pool, waiting for luck.