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17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent the first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney.

According to Finney, Satoshi’s identity remained a mystery to him — he assumed he was dealing with “a young man of Japanese origin, very intelligent and sincere.”

Reflecting on his experience in 2014, the developer expressed regret over his initial lack of interest in BTC:

After a few days, Bitcoin was running fairly stably, so I kept it running. Those were the days when the difficulty was 1, and you could mine on a CPU. Over the next few days, I mined a few blocks, but then shut down my computer because it was getting hot and the fan noise was annoying.

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