The first man in history to receive a Bitcoin transaction directly from the currency's inventor "Satoshi Nakamoto" in 2009👨🏻‍💻🚀

1. Before Bitcoin – The years of cryptography and digital freedom (1980 – 2008)

Hal Finney was a brilliant programmer in the field of open source software and cryptography.

He joined the Cypherpunks movement in the early 1990s, a group that believed cryptography could protect privacy and prevent government surveillance.

He worked on the development team of PGP with Phil Zimmermann, one of the most powerful email encryption programs in the world.

He published small projects related to "crypto money" before the emergence of Bitcoin, such as "RPOW – Reusable Proof of Work" in 2004, an idea that paved the way for a decentralized financial system.

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2. The emergence of Satoshi Nakamoto (October 2008) $BTC

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On October 31, 2008, "Satoshi Nakamoto" published the Bitcoin white paper titled:

"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

Hal Finney was one of the first to read the document and take an interest in it, as he saw it as a solution to the idea of "crypto money" that the Cypherpunks community dreamed of.