Protocol · April 18, 2011
Namecoin launches — first altcoin and first merge-mined fork
Price at event
$1.16
Today
$73,562
Since then
×63416
Namecoin mines its genesis block as the first fork of Bitcoin's codebase — a decentralized DNS/identity system that later pioneers merged mining. The first 'altcoin'.
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