Today is Bitcoin's birthday. Where did this digital money substitute and video card price inflator come from?

Exactly 11 years ago, the Bitcoin network started working and the first block appeared on its blockchain.

January 3, 2009 this block

“mined” by a person who appeared on the Internet underpseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. A few months earlier, he published an article about a hypothetical revolutionary new virtual currency without a center of issue and with a distributed ledger of all transactions. Bitcoin is the implementation of that proposal.