BlockBeats News, January 11, 2009, Hal Finney tweeted “Running bitcoin” on January 11, 2009. Behind this short message was Hal Finney, who became the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction in history: just one day later, Satoshi Nakamoto sent him 10 BTC directly.
While the debate about Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity is heated, one fact is indisputable: without Hal Finney, Bitcoin might have remained just an obscure whitepaper rather than the financial revolution we know today.
Furthermore, the approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) for spot trading coincidentally aligns with the timing of Finney’s historic tweet 15 years later, on January 11, 2024.
