THE FIRST PERSON TO RECEIVE A BITCOIN FROM SATOSHI 🪙✨
What happened to this person is incredible... On January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, sent 10 $BTC a to Hal Finney, a programmer and cryptographer. It was the first Bitcoin transaction between two people in history.
Hal had downloaded the program the day before and even tweeted “Running bitcoin.” Those 10 $BTC , which were worth nothing at the time, would be worth more than $700,000 today. And the craziest part: they have never moved from that wallet. Hal, who was diagnosed with ALS that same year, kept programming until the end of his life in 2014.
To me, the wildest part is that Hal wasn’t trying to get rich: he just wanted to test whether the system worked. And he ended up becoming part of history forever.
What would you do if you received the first Bitcoin in history today? 👇
#Bitcoin
What happened to this person is incredible... On January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous creator, sent 10 $BTC a to Hal Finney, a programmer and cryptographer. It was the first Bitcoin transaction between two people in history.
Hal had downloaded the program the day before and even tweeted “Running bitcoin.” Those 10 $BTC , which were worth nothing at the time, would be worth more than $700,000 today. And the craziest part: they have never moved from that wallet. Hal, who was diagnosed with ALS that same year, kept programming until the end of his life in 2014.
To me, the wildest part is that Hal wasn’t trying to get rich: he just wanted to test whether the system worked. And he ended up becoming part of history forever.
What would you do if you received the first Bitcoin in history today? 👇
#Bitcoin
