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"Running bitcoin" — Hal Finney's historic tweet

The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on January 10, 2009 (PST) / January 11, 2009 (UTC), the same day the Bitcoin v0.1 software was publicly released. He was the first person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Magazine examines the 5-day gap between Genesis Block and Block 1

Pete Rizzo investigates the unexplained ~5-day, 8-hour gap between the Genesis Block (January 3, 2009) and Block 1 (January 9, 2009), framing it as one of Bitcoin's enduring unsolved mysteries.