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Satoshi writes Adam Back the day after the Bitcoin v0.1 release, announcing the launch and forwarding Hal Finney's high-level overview from the cryptography mailing-list thread.
Satoshi's private email to Hal Finney announcing the Bitcoin v0.1 release, sent hours after the public Cryptography Mailing List post.
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.
Satoshi writes Adam Back for the final time, thanking him for paper suggestions and announcing the Bitcoin software launch. Includes Hal Finney's project overview from the Cryptography mailing list.
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.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on the day Bitcoin v0.1 was released (January 10/11, 2009). He was the first known person other than Satoshi to run it.