[On This Day in History: 18th Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper] BlockBeats reports that October 31st marks the 18th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's publication of the Bitcoin white paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," on the P2P Foundation website. The Bitcoin network officially launched on January 3, 2009, with an initial trading price of $0.0008. According to HTX market data, the current price of Bitcoin is $77,376, with a total market capitalization of $1.56 trillion.