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First Bitcoin sale for fiat — Martti Malmi sells 5,050 BTC for $5.02

Martti Malmi sold 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal — the first known exchange of Bitcoin for fiat currency. The transaction established a real-world price of approximately $0.001 per BTC.

COPA trial — Martti Malmi testifies and publishes 260 Satoshi emails

During Day 13 of the COPA v. Craig Wright trial, Martti Malmi testified via video link and submitted 260 emails (140,000 words) exchanged with Satoshi Nakamoto between May 2009 and February 2011. The complete email archive was published on GitHub.