What is Moscow Time

Short answer

The number traditionally represents how many satoshis you can get for $1 USD. You can now choose another currency in the gear menu.

Long answer

In March 2021, Twitter's CEO at the time, Jack Dorsey, joined a video call with the United States Congress to discuss a serious issue: the rise of misinformation online. Yet, instead of the content of the conversation itself, what really got people talking was a curious detail on Dorsey’s screen. Behind him sat a BlockClock, a digital device displaying a number: 1952. This number represented how many satoshis you could buy for a single U.S. dollar.

For people immersed in Bitcoin, this was as ordinary as checking the weather. But for a casual observer, this seemingly random number on Dorsey’s clock looked like a mysterious code. Enter Chris Vickery, a cybersecurity researcher with a knack for spotting clues. Vickery took one look at Dorsey’s Block Clock and was convinced he’d cracked the secret: Jack was running his clock on Russian time! This number, he reasoned, must refer to Moscow’s time zone. There was just one slight issue with this hypothesis: by the time of the discovery, the sun had already set in Moscow.

The Bitcoin community wasted no time turning Vickery’s interpretation into a running joke. Twitter threads lit up with Bitcoin fans poking fun, laughing at the idea of a Block Clock display being confused for Moscow’s actual time zone. And with that, the satoshi-to-dollar rate picked up a new nickname: “Moscow Time.”
After all, if you start measuring your life in satoshis instead of dollars, you’re officially on “Moscow Time”

And if you’re actually here being redirected by search engines looking for Moscow’s current time, we won’t leave you empty-handed.
Here’s Moscow’s current time:

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