[On This Day in History: 17 Years Ago, Satoshi Nakamoto Released Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha Version] Golden Finance reported that Coinbase posted on the X platform to commemorate this day in history: 17 years ago, on January 17, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the first version of the Bitcoin client, Bitcoin v0.1 Alpha version, which allowed anyone to start their own node from any computer.