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January 11, 2009: Jason Finney heard…

Bitman — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:52:18 GMT

January 11, 2009: Jason Finney heard the machines humming in the attic.

The boy was forbidden to go up there when his father’s computers, Hal’s, were turned on.

That night, his dad had an important mission: to receive the first #Bitcoin transaction in history.

Jason was 26 years old when, on a Saturday—January 10, 2009—his father fired up the machines and sent a tweet from the attic that would go down in history.

#Bitcoin had barely been launched, and Hal Finney had already downloaded the software and was mining coins at home.

It was no coincidence.

Harold Thomas Finney II was the perfect figure to receive Satoshi Nakamoto’s torch 🗽

He was one of the first employees of the PGP Corporation.

In 2004, he created a system of reusable proof-of-work. He was also an active participant on the mailing list where Satoshi announced #BTC.

Hal and Fran Finney had two children.

The kids grew up immersed in technology. They had home internet as early as 1991.

Their father was a video game developer who became a cypherpunk activist.

But even by that household’s standards… Hal’s recent obsession was curious.

When Satoshi released the software, Hal rushed to install it, helped fix bugs, and made the famous prediction that “a coin could eventually be worth $10M.”

He began mining.

In January 2009, that attic was humming day and night. Hal was excited.

In early 2009, Jason noticed that his father’s computer processor was running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at full speed. “He mentioned that he was helping someone test a kind of prototype for an online money system. That’s how he saw it. It wasn’t real—it was a test for a prototype.”

More specifically, this test was the receipt of the first Bitcoin transaction by Hal. Although it was just another step in the process for him, Hal’s role would forever secure him a place in the annals of cryptography around the world.

Two days after the famous tweet, Hal received the first transaction in history:

10 BTC directly from Satoshi Nakamoto.

The emails he exchanged with Satoshi between January 9 and 24 were later made public by Fran Finney: https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakamotoemails.pdf

The toy took off. The noise in the attic turned into money.

When #BTC hit $1, Hal gave exotic Christmas gifts to the whole family—

like alpaca wool socks, which became legendary.

But he didn’t get to enjoy the rewards of his pioneering role. Everything was about to change.

Every genius carries a cross.

Hal Finney had ALS—a degenerative disease that, between 2011 and 2013, impaired his speech and movement.

The Finney attic fell silent.

Soon after Satoshi disappeared, Hal also stopped mining. See the chart below 👇

Hal had a project to improve a wallet, which he carried forward as far as he could.

When he could no longer type, Hal built a device that allowed him to write using eye movements.

It was 20 times slower than using his fingers, but it worked.

Hal kept programming until he could no longer communicate.

In March 2013, he published a farewell letter titled “Bitcoin and Me.”

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

In it, he said he was “comfortable with his legacy.”

In August 2014, he left behind two children, his wife, and a legion of admirers.

Hal was not buried or cremated.

Instead, he was cryopreserved.

He rests in a frozen tank in the Arizona desert, waiting for medicine to advance enough to repair his ailments.

Fran says that Hal “loved change.” He just wanted “to be able to see what the world would become.”

The coins mined in the Finney attic essentially paid for the treatment and gave Hal a dignified end of life.

His children inherited a love for science and freedom.

Perhaps Hal remembers a private key—and if he’s ever brought back, he’ll have a little money to spend.

Erin, the youngest, is a programmer.

Jason became a math teacher and a science fiction writer.

Fran works funding research into the disease that put Hal’s life “on pause.”

Every year, she organizes a half marathon that raises donations in #BTC for the ALSF.

Adam Back and Satoshi Nakamoto discuss…

Bitman — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:29:36 GMT

Adam Back and Satoshi Nakamoto discuss #Bitcoin just four months before its official launch. 🔥

While everyone’s focused only on…

Bitman — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:25:44 GMT

While everyone’s focused only on the price, the #Bitcoin hashrate has reached 1.25 zettahashes per second — meaning the network performs 1.2 sextillion calculations every second.

This shows the exponential growth of Bitcoin’s energy and security — the greatest use of energy ever seen in something everyone uses: money.

You can’t counterfeit energy.
#Bitcoin is proof of work — the incorruptible proof of energy truth.

Study #Bitcoin.

Throughout human history, defending wealth—whether…

Bitman — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:24:16 GMT

Throughout human history, defending wealth—whether land, gold, or resources—has always required physical kinetic power: walls, weapons, armies, and human lives.

Defending property has always cost blood.

#Bitcoin introduced a paradigm shift: it is also defended by physical power—but electrical power. It replaces the cost of human lives with the cost of an electricity bill.

Complaining that Bitcoin “uses energy” is like complaining that a hospital uses electricity to keep a patient alive.

It’s the cost of security—but for the first time in history, achieved in a peaceful and universally accessible way.

1930s: Great Depression → FDR confiscates gold

Bitman — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:41:20 GMT

1930s: Great Depression → FDR confiscates gold

1970s: Nixon abandons the gold standard → Inflation skyrockets

2008s: Housing crisis → “Quantitative Easing” (money printing)

2020s: Pandemic → 40% of ALL U.S. dollars printed in just 2 years

Pattern identified?
Crisis → State expands power → You pay the price

#Bitcoin was born in 2009.

In the genesis block:

“Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”

Satoshi didn’t create digital money.
He created an exit from a broken system that:
• Socializes losses
• Privatizes gains
• Steals through inflation
• Bails out banks with your money

16 years later:
Fiat system: More broken than ever
Bitcoin: 99.98% uptime, zero bailouts needed

So, which experiment really failed?

So the “big announcement” that’s…

Bitman — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:21:12 GMT

So the “big announcement” that’s been making the rounds on international Bitcoin Twitter is just another politician using #Bitcoin as a campaign prop?

It’s about time to mute all these people who keep coming with a “huge Bitcoin announcement” every week.

Bait after bait.

“I’m too early in #Bitcoin,…

Bitman — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:50:32 GMT

“I’m too early in #Bitcoin, because the world that will be built because of Bitcoin will happen after I’m gone."

— Max Keiser

One of the biggest reasons many…

Bitman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:28:43 GMT

One of the biggest reasons many people don’t understand #Bitcoin is that they don’t understand the root of the monetary problem.

The U.S. took 220 years to reach $1 TRILLION in debt, but that same amount is now added every five months.

The debt bubble keeps inflating. Protect yourself.

Marcus was responsible for the "Meta…

Bitman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:54:28 GMT

Marcus was responsible for the "Meta Blockchain" a few years ago and was the one researching its feasibility.

After months of study at the company, using all available resources, he came to a conclusion:

Only the #Bitcoin network can serve as the "internet of money."

Ayn Rand on #Bitcoin

Bitman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:52:20 GMT

Ayn Rand on #Bitcoin

You’re safe because you save…

Bitman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:49:27 GMT

You’re safe because you save in #Bitcoin ⚡️

In the world of #Bitcoin, everything…

Bitman — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:07:21 GMT

In the world of #Bitcoin, everything seems motionless until suddenly it all happens at once.

“Slowly, then suddenly.”

Just be patient and keep following your plan.

“If #Bitcoin goes over 100 thousand…

Bitman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:52:14 GMT

“If #Bitcoin goes over 100 thousand dollars, you can bet it will reach 1 million.”

John McAfee

Legend!!!

“#Bitcoin is too volatile and doesn’…

Bitman — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:04:29 GMT

“#Bitcoin is too volatile and doesn’t protect you from inflation.”

As ironic as it may sound, #Bitcoin not only protects you from the Cantillon Effect — it also puts you on equal footing with the privileged few who receive freshly printed money first. In other words: #Bitcoin gives you the power to exploit the victims of the system.

In the fiat standard we live under, central bankers print trillions and funnel that money first to well-connected banks — those at the front of the monetary privilege line. The bitcoiner, however, does something more elegant: they use absolute scarcity as collateral to drain liquidity from the system.

As former President Obama once said (even if he didn’t grasp the full depth of what he meant): holding #Bitcoin is like carrying a Swiss bank in your pocket. And he wasn’t wrong.

Put simply: you don’t just escape monetary debasement — you can profit from it.

In practice, this means access to hard-money credit (dollars, euros, yen, etc.) at interest rates historically reserved for banks deemed “too big to fail” — the same ones that have already collapsed in the past and were bailed out by taxpayers.

Being a bitcoiner today is more privileged than being any Brazilian bank. After all, Brazilian banks are far from the Federal Reserve and still operate under the control of local politicians — a toxic combination of distance from new money and proximity to Brazilian risk.

While most people are trying to survive the Cantillon Effect, you can profit from it.
After all, access to 5% annual credit in dollars is something not even Itaú can get.

Study #Bitcoin now — before the rest catch on. Take advantage of the privilege of others’ ignorance.
By the time the masses understand, the gains will have already gone to the sharp ones — and the only thing left for the “system’s obedient” will be crumbs.

@James Lavish breaks down why U.…

Bitman — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:14:09 GMT

James Lavish breaks down why U.S. Treasury Bonds make weak collateral for borrowing — his takeaway: ditch the bonds and buy #Bitcoin instead.

“Ultimately, we’re witnessing #Bitcoin evolve…

Bitman — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:12:10 GMT

“Ultimately, we’re witnessing #Bitcoin evolve from a tech-driven asset linked to the Magnificent 7 or the Nasdaq into something that more closely resembles digital gold.”

First they attack and reject it,…

Bitman — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:46:54 GMT

First they attack and reject it, then they adopt it.

JPMorgan will offer loans collateralized with Bitcoin ETFs to its clients.

#Bitcoin is the ultimate collateral, and this is just the beginning of this trend.

In #Bitcoin terms, almost everything keeps…

Bitman — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:14:58 GMT

In #Bitcoin terms, almost everything keeps getting cheaper — even the massive U.S. deficit.

This year, the estimate is $2.5 trillion.

Every dollar of deficit is a dollar taken from private economic activity to fund the machinery of the state. Since 2008, the system’s solution has been negative interest rates (not allowing sustainable assets that yield more than real inflation) — so instead of nationalizing all economic activity, it simply wipes out anyone holding fiat.

#Bitcoin closed May with the HIGHEST…

Bitman — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:14:02 GMT

#Bitcoin closed May with the HIGHEST monthly close in history at around ~$104,600. 🔥

When in doubt, zoom out.

#Bitcoin Bonds being launched in Russia.…

Bitman — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:12:25 GMT

#Bitcoin Bonds being launched in Russia. 🚨

The debt security is being issued by Russia’s largest bank and uses the future price of bitcoin along with the euro/ruble exchange rate to generate returns for investors.

So, what now, USA? Are you going to try to catch up?