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Famous Bitcoin Transactions & The Stories Behind Them
Bitcoin has now been used by countless individuals to transact for over 7 years. At the time of this writing there have been over 140,000,000 transactions sent and stored forever in the blockchain.
January 2009 was when the very first block was added to the blockchain, which is affectionately dubbed the Genesis Block, and the rest as they say, is now history.
The history of bitcoin includes some amazing stories, some so interesting they are worth retelling to keep the story alive. This post serves to preserve a few memorable pieces of that history.
The Transactions
January 12, 2009: It all had to start somewhere
It happened at block height 170, the very first bitcoin transaction ever. This transaction was between the late Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney was a computer scientist, inventor of reusable-proof-of-work (RPOW), a bitcoin pioneer, and also the first recipient of bitcoin via this transaction.Laszlo’s two pizzas he paid 10,000 BTC for on May 22, 2010 – via TechCrunch**[May 22, 2010: “I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas…”]
(https://blockchain.info/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d)**
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