Today Satoshi Nakamoto turns 50!

April 5, 1975, is the birth date listed in the profile of the mysterious creator of Bitcoin on the P2P Foundation website. Today, the crypto community celebrates the symbolic anniversary of the one who changed the financial world.

But what makes this date so special?

Exactly 42 years earlier, on April 5, 1933, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, requiring Americans to hand over their gold to the government. That day marked the point of no return for monetary freedom in the U.S.