Bitcoin First Transaction 10th Anniversary
Ten years ago today, on January 12th, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto sent Hal Finney 10 bitcoins as a test. It was the first Bitcoin transaction ever made. Today, more than 280,000 transactions per day are processed on the Bitcoin blockchain. Hal Finney was a respected...
Ethereum Constantinople Network Update
The Ethereum community eagerly awaits the much anticipated Constantinople hard fork, or as Vitalik Buterin suggested recently on twitter, “network update”. According to ethereum.org’s blog, the update will implement 5 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to...
First Bitcoin Tweet
Hal Finney was an Engineer who worked in the computer gaming and cyber security industry. He was a Cryptographic Activist and created the first reusable proof of work system before Bitcoin. On January 10, 2009 he posted the very first tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney...