₿ 💥 Received the first Bitcoin transaction
$BTC in history.
Lived two blocks away from someone named Satoshi Nakamoto.
And passed away with his encrypted hard drives.
His name was Hal Finney.
Cryptographer. Marathon runner. Employee at a video game company in California.
On January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent him 10 BTC.
The first Bitcoin transaction in the history of the world.
Hal was the first believer. The first to run a node.
The first to tell Satoshi: "this works."
In 2009, he tweeted something that today seems prophetic:
"Running Bitcoin."
Two words. No context. No fanfare.
In 2013, he was diagnosed with ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
He kept coding from his wheelchair.
Dictating code with his eyes when he could no longer move his fingers.
He passed away in August 2014.
His body was cryopreserved. It remains frozen today.
But here comes what almost nobody knows.
Hal Finney lived in Temple City, California.
Two blocks from his house lived an elderly, retired Japanese-American man.
His name: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto.
Coincidence, say the investigators.
Too much coincidence, say others.
Hal Finney's hard drives were never decrypted.
Nobody knows what's inside.
Did Hal know who Satoshi really was?
Did he take it to the cryo chamber?
There are questions in crypto that the market will never answer.
This is one of them.
What do you think?
Fran Berlín | Blockchain Institute.
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