Just seven days after Satoshi launched the Bitcoin network on January 3, 2009, Hal Finney, the first person to ever receive a bitcoin payment, announced to the world that he too had fired up a Bitcoin node. “Running bitcoin,” Finney tweeted on January 10, 2009, and those two words have become iconic in the Bitcoin […]
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hal Finney’s introduction of Reusable Proofs of Work (RPOW), a groundbreaking concept that paved the way for today’s digital currencies. Finney’s visionary work continues to echo throughout the cryptocurrency community, underscoring his deep insight into the development of digital cash systems. From RPOW to Bitcoin Hal Finney was […]