Hal Finney

On January 10, 2009, Hal Finney wrote "Running Bitcoin" on Twitter. Unknown to him, he had just engraved the public launch of the first decentralized digital currency network into modern monetary history. That day, he ran Satoshi Nakamoto's software and became the very first recipient of a BTC transaction. Seventeen years later, yesterday January 10, 2026, this message still echoes as the founding act of a technological and financial revolution.

Hal Finney, rumored to be the true Satoshi Nakamoto, is an iconic figure in the history of Bitcoin (BTC). He is the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, and his commitment to the project was considerable. An experienced developer and privacy advocate, discover the person behind this icon of the cryptocurrency industry.

Bitcoin was born in one of the most tumultuous financial contexts the United States, indeed the whole world, has ever known. From 2007 to 2009, with the subprime crisis, a feeling of mistrust towards governments and banks gripped the population, leading them to question the entire monetary system.