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Hal Finney: The Cypherpunk Who Processed Bitcoin’s First Transaction—Before Wall Street Knew What Hit Them
Hal Finney: The Cypherpunk Who Processed Bitcoin’s First Transaction—Before Wall Street Knew What Hit Them
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When Hal Finney hit ’reply’ on that fateful 2009 email from Satoshi, he became Patient Zero for the crypto revolution—running Bitcoin’s first node from his basement like some caffeinated digital Paul Revere.
The ultimate insider-outsider: A PGP developer who saw crypto’s potential before Goldman Sachs could spell ’blockchain.’ His early tweets about mining now read like prophetic manifestos—if only he’d lived to see the ETF circus.
Finney’s legacy? Proof that real innovation happens in terminals, not boardrooms. (Take notes, Jamie Dimon.)
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