January 11, 2009
Hal Finney, one of the legendary cypherpunks and the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto himself
write:
"Running bitcoin"
Bitcoin was just born at the time. The v0.1 software had only been released a few days earlier. Hal Finney was one of the first people in the world to actually run a Bitcoin node. That simple tweet became the first tweet about Bitcoin in Twitter history, marking the birth of a revolution we still feel today.
January 10, 2026
Michael Saylor (CEO of MicroStrategy), one of Bitcoin's biggest institutional supporters
write:
"Running bitcoin"
Same tweet. Same words. No extras.
The difference? Now MicroStrategy holds hundreds of thousands of BTC worth tens of billions of dollars. Bitcoin is no longer a small experiment on a cypherpunk mailing list—it has become a world-class treasury asset, adopted by major corporations, ETFs, and even countries.
Those two simple words are like a bridge in time:
2009: A pioneer runs new software that almost no one knows about.
2026: A CEO of a publicly traded company with a billion-dollar market cap says the same thing.
This isn't just nostalgia. It's a reminder that Bitcoin is still very much in its infancy.
What was once run by a handful of people is now run by institutions, developers, miners, and millions of holders worldwide—including all of us in this community.
"Running bitcoin" isn't just about turning on the software.
It's about keeping going, keeping holding, keeping building—regardless of market conditions.
17 years ago, Hal Finney started.
Today, Michael Saylor continues.
Tomorrow, whose turn will it be? Maybe it's my turn.
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