The first person in history to receive a Bitcoin transaction directly from the currency's creator, "Satoshi Nakamoto," in 2009👨🏻💻🚀
1. Before Bitcoin – Years of Cryptography and Digital Freedom (1980s – 2008)
Hal Finney was a genius programmer in open-source software and cryptography.
He joined the Cypherpunks movement in the early 1990s, a group that believed that cryptography could protect privacy and prevent government surveillance.
He worked on the PGP development team with Phil Zimmermann, who was behind one of the strongest email encryption programs in the world.