Raise a glass to @halfin!
Today would have been Hal’s 70th birthday.
Hal Finney is one of the most important cypherpunks in the history of Bitcoin. When the whitepaper was published, most people ignored it. Hal Finney was the one of the few cryptographers who believed in it.
On this day 14 years ago, a forum user sold $60 of iTunes gift cards for 1 bitcoin. The first comment, “too good to be true…” because a bitcoin was worth $5.
The University of Goma has officially become the first college in Africa to accept Bitcoin payments!
At a school meetup, students bought 25 chickens from the university's agro-pastoral farm using Bitcoin.
Paul Tudor Jones is worth $8,100,000,000 and pioneered the modern Wall Street hedge fund industry.
In a new interview, Paul says, “Bitcoin is unequivocally the best inflation hedge that there is…it has the greatest scarcity value of anything.”
The mysterious inventor of Bitcoin disappeared 15 years ago today after sending a final email message.
On April 23, 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote, “I’ve moved on to other things. It’s in good hands now.”
No verified communication has appeared online since.