The first $BTC transaction changed everything.
By Maxime Laurent · 2026-01-12 11:13
The first $BTC transaction changed everything.
Seventeen years ago, 10 $BTC moved once — and quietly rewrote financial history ⏳
Exactly 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 $BTC to programmer Hal Finney, marking the first transaction ever on the Bitcoin network. No fireworks. No headlines. Just code talking to code.
What always gets me is the human detail. Finney later said he got annoyed by his computer overheating and the fan making too much noise. So he turned it off. He stopped mining after just a few blocks. Too loud, too hot, too annoying.
That small, very human decision ended up costing him billions of dollars in unrealized gains. Not because he was wrong — but because the future was impossible to feel at the time. Back then, it was just an experiment humming in a room.
Bitcoin history isn’t made of grand speeches. It’s made of small choices, mild annoyances, and people who had no idea what they were holding. Comme quoi la vie…
Next time your laptop sounds like a jet engine, remember: it might just be mining history 🔊
#Bitcoin #BTC #Satoshi #HalFinney #CryptoHistory #Genesis
Seventeen years ago, 10 $BTC moved once — and quietly rewrote financial history ⏳
Exactly 17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 $BTC to programmer Hal Finney, marking the first transaction ever on the Bitcoin network. No fireworks. No headlines. Just code talking to code.
What always gets me is the human detail. Finney later said he got annoyed by his computer overheating and the fan making too much noise. So he turned it off. He stopped mining after just a few blocks. Too loud, too hot, too annoying.
That small, very human decision ended up costing him billions of dollars in unrealized gains. Not because he was wrong — but because the future was impossible to feel at the time. Back then, it was just an experiment humming in a room.
Bitcoin history isn’t made of grand speeches. It’s made of small choices, mild annoyances, and people who had no idea what they were holding. Comme quoi la vie…
Next time your laptop sounds like a jet engine, remember: it might just be mining history 🔊
#Bitcoin #BTC #Satoshi #HalFinney #CryptoHistory #Genesis
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