#数字资产市场洞察 When it comes to the origins of Crypto Assets, we cannot avoid that world-changing White Paper. On October 31, 2008, a mysterious figure published "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" in a cryptography mailing list, systematically outlining the core concepts of BTC and Blockchain for the first time. At that time, nobody knew that this would trigger a financial revolution.

The real turning point came quickly. On January 3, 2009, the Genesis Block was born. Interestingly, the front-page headline of that day's Times was embedded in this block - "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." This report witnessed the beginning of an era: the traditional financial system was in turmoil, while a brand new, decentralized value exchange system was quietly starting up.

On January 9, one week later, the Bitcoin client version v0.1 was officially released, and the BTC network became a reality from code. From that moment on, the first batch of miners began to join, and the consensus mechanism started to operate.

Fast forward to December 2010. A key move came—the mining reward halving mechanism was mentioned for the first time. This design is profound: by gradually decreasing the rewards, it ensures that the total amount of BTC remains constant at 21 million coins, laying the foundation for a deflationary model. This not only protects early participants but also provides a mathematically grounded guarantee for the scarcity and value of Bitcoin.

In 2011, everything began to change. In April, after the last public email was sent out, that founder gradually went into hiding. By July, control of the project had completely passed to core developers like Gavin Andresen. From then on, Satoshi Nakamoto became the biggest mystery in the crypto world. A person, with a White Paper, a piece of code, and steadfast ideals, rewrote the financial landscape of humanity, and then vanished like a ghost.

More than a decade has passed, and $BTC has become synonymous with crypto assets, while that mystery still attracts the attention of the whole world.