By embedding “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” into the genesis block of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto achieved two feats at once: He not only contextualized his project politically, he proved he had not been secretly mining before January 3 2009. By anchoring the chain to an external event that anyone can confirm, Satoshi welded Bitcoin’s timeline to human history. That tiny line of text guards the fairness of Bitcoin’s origin to this day. With Nockchain, we'll go one step further in temporal precision, but with homage as well: Our genesis block will commit to a specific Bitcoin block height.