Odaily News It has been 15 years since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System on the P2P foundation website. At 6:15 pm on January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block was generated in a small server in Helsinki, the Netherlands, marking the official birth of Bitcoin. Bitcoin was trading at $0.0008 early on. If calculated based on the historical high price of $68,789, Bitcoin has risen more than 43 million times since then. As of now, the Ouyi OKX market shows that the current price of Bitcoin is US$34,454.