Back in January 12, 2009โฆ Bitcoin was basically a science experiment.
That day, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the very first Bitcoin transaction ever to a developer named Hal Finney. No hype. No price charts. No Twitter. Just two guys testing code.
Whatโs wild is Hal didnโt even know who Satoshi really was. Later on, Finney said Satoshiโs identity was a total mystery. From their emails, he guessed Satoshi might be a young Japanese guy super smart, very calm, very sincere. And thatโs it. No face. No name. Just ideas.
Now hereโs the crazy part.
Fast forward to 2014, Hal looked back and talked about those early days. Bitcoin was still super experimental. Mining difficulty? One. You could mine Bitcoin on a regular home computer. No GPUs. No ASICs. Just a normal CPU.
Hal mined a few blocksโฆ and then he turned his computer off.
Why?
Because it was getting hot. The fan was loud. Thatโs it.
No jokehe shut it down because it was annoying.
At the time, nobody knew what Bitcoin would become. Not Satoshi. Not Hal. Not anyone. It wasnโt โdigital gold.โ It wasnโt a trillion-dollar asset. It was just an ideaโฆ running quietly on a noisy computer.
And thatโs what makes this moment so powerful.
Bitcoin didnโt start with hype. It didnโt start with big money. It started with curiosity, experimentation, and uncertainty.