The Secret History of Bitcoin: The Cutest Hodler, the Baby Who Received Bitcoin University Education Fund as Soon as He Was Born

In January 2019, the Bitcoin address 1ZAB5XeKMdvax2S8eZT7GQ6Nj4xjbsw1Y received more than 300 transactions totaling about 1.11 BTC. The owner of this address is a baby girl named Izabella Anna Bowles, and the transactions frequently remitted to this address are college tuition raised by netizens for her.

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As Bitcoin enthusiasts, Izabella's parents published a small advertisement with a Bitcoin address in The Times on the day she was born, hoping that readers would donate a small portion of Bitcoin to their daughter as a college education fund. Interestingly, the first four digits of the address are exactly Izabella's name "1ZAB"; on the other hand, The Times, which published the advertisement, also has a close connection with Bitcoin. Because on January 3, 11 years ago, the words left by Satoshi Nakamoto on the founding block were the front-page headlines of the newspaper that day.

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It is worth mentioning that a few days before Izabella's parents published their article in the newspaper, BitMEX also bought the front page of the newspaper and published a message at the bottom to celebrate the birth of Bitcoin, "Thank you, Satoshi Nakamoto. We owe you this thanks. Happy 10th anniversary of Bitcoin!" And Izabella's message quickly attracted the attention of the Bitcoin community. Some people shouted, "Why didn't I think of this idea?" Some people praised Izabella for being cute and hoped that she could become the ultimate hodler, "When she goes to college, she can prove that Bitcoin will remain safe for the next 20 years."

Of course, the sighs of community members are not just verbal. In January, people continued to transfer small amounts of Bitcoin to the address. In less than a week, 1 Bitcoin was raised; if calculated according to the price at that time, it was about 3,663 US dollars. In March 2019, 1.117 Bitcoins in Izabella's address were transferred away, but not spent. They are still lying in a new Bitcoin address, waiting to be activated.

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Although calculated at the current price, this amount of Bitcoin is not enough to pay for Izabella's four years of college tuition; but now she is still more than ten years away from college. With the development of Bitcoin, maybe in the future this Bitcoin can not only pay for Izabella's tuition, but also support her daily consumption during college.

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