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The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on January 10, 2009 (PST) / January 11, 2009 (UTC), the same day the Bitcoin v0.1 software was publicly released. He was the first person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.
Hal Finney's famous tweet 'Running bitcoin' - marking him as the first known person besides Satoshi to run the Bitcoin software. The next day, he received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi.
WikiLeaks announced it would accept Bitcoin donations, circumventing a financial blockade imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Western Union. Satoshi had warned against this six months earlier, saying it would bring unwanted government attention to the still-nascent network.
Hackers compromise high-profile Twitter accounts including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, and Apple, posting Bitcoin scam messages in the largest security breach in the platform's history.
After the London High Court ordered bitcoin.org to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper, Cobra responded on Twitter with a scathing critique of the legal system and a declaration that cryptographic rules are superior to court-enforced rules.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated that Bitcoin faces no quantum computing threat for roughly 20–40 years, pointing to NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures like SLH-DSA that Bitcoin can adopt well before any threat materializes.