Event Added Updated Tweet
"Running bitcoin" (@halfin, 2009-01-11)
Hal Finney's tweet, the first known reference to running Bitcoin from a machine other than Satoshi's, posted the day Bitcoin v0.1 was released.
Running bitcoin
Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
Defined in: "Running bitcoin" — Hal Finney's historic tweet
5 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Event Added Updated Analysis
The day 'Bitcoin' split from 'Bitcoin Core' — how the 2014 rebrand cracked open Bitcoin's authority
Editorial reading of how the 2014 'Bitcoin Core' rebrand reshaped Bitcoin's authority vocabulary — PR #3408 internal disagreement, the 2015-2017 fork episodes, and Hearn's 2025 retrospective regret.
Event Added Updated Article
Satoshi personally notifies Hal Finney of the Bitcoin v0.1 release (January 8, 2009)
Satoshi personally notifies Hal Finney of the Bitcoin v0.1 release hours after the public Cryptography list post, sending the SourceForge link and pointing him to bitcoin.org for release notes.
Event Added Updated Article
First Bitcoin transaction — Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney
The first person-to-person Bitcoin transaction in history. Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney in Block 170, confirming that Bitcoin's peer-to-peer electronic cash system worked as designed.
Event Added Updated Biography Biography
Hal Finney (1956–2014) — Cypherpunk, PGP developer, first Bitcoin recipient
Harold Thomas Finney II (1956–2014): Caltech engineer, PGP 2.0 developer, Extropian, cryonics advocate, RPOW creator, first Bitcoin recipient and first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.