🪙 17 years ago, on January 12, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent Hal Finney the first Bitcoin network transaction.
According to Finney, Satoshi's identity was a mystery to him — he assumed he was dealing with "a young man of Japanese descent, very smart and sincere."
In 2014, describing his experience, the developer regretted his initial lack of interest in BTC:
A few days later, Bitcoin was running quite stably, so I stayed on the network. These were the days when the difficulty was 1, and you could mine on the CPU. In the following days, I mined several blocks but turned off my computer because it was heating up and the fan noise was annoying.