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Satoshi personally notifies Hal Finney of the Bitcoin v0.1 release hours after the public announcement on the Cryptography mailing list, sending the SourceForge download link and directing him to bitcoin.org for release notes.
Satoshi writes to Adam Back for the final time, thanking him for the earlier paper suggestions and announcing that the Bitcoin software has been launched. He includes Hal Finney's overview of the project from the Cryptography mailing list.
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.
Pete Rizzo investigates the unexplained ~5-day, 8-hour gap between the Genesis Block (January 3, 2009) and Block 1 (January 9, 2009), framing it as one of Bitcoin's enduring unsolved mysteries.