X, formerly Twitter, is the social platform itself, where contemporaries like Hal Finney posted directly, such as his 2009 "Running bitcoin" tweet.
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Adam Back's retrospective framing of his pre-Bitcoin cypherpunk activity, posted in response to a NYT investigation naming him as a leading stylometric match to Satoshi.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated Bitcoin faces no quantum computing threat for ~20–40 years, pointing to NIST post-quantum signatures like SLH-DSA that Bitcoin can adopt before threats materialize.
Adam Back's reply to a question about whether Bitcoin faces near-term risk from quantum computing, pointing at NIST-standardized SLH-DSA and a 20–40 year horizon.
After the London High Court ordered bitcoin.org to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper, Cobra responded on Twitter with a critique declaring cryptographic rules superior to court-enforced ones.
Cobra's response on X, posted hours after the London High Court ordered bitcoin.org to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper following Craig Wright's default judgment.
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.
Michael Saylor, then MicroStrategy's CEO, predicts on X that Bitcoin will suffer the same fate as online gambling — seven years before his company's first Bitcoin purchase.
Gavin Andresen's tweet on the evening of his Bitcoin talk at CIA headquarters, seven weeks after Satoshi's last known email to him.
WikiLeaks announces it will accept anonymous Bitcoin donations to its public address, six months after a financial blockade from Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
WikiLeaks announces Bitcoin donations, bypassing the Bank of America/Visa/MasterCard/PayPal/Western Union blockade. Satoshi had warned against this six months earlier, fearing government attention.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' two days after Bitcoin v0.1 was released, on January 10/11, 2009. He was the first known person other than Satoshi to run it.
Hal Finney's tweet, the first known reference to running Bitcoin from a machine other than Satoshi's, posted two days after Bitcoin v0.1 was released.