Today marks the 17th anniversary of Hal Finney's famous Bitcoin tweet "Running bitcoin"

BlockBeats News, January 11, 2009 - On January 11, 2009, Hal Finney tweeted "Running bitcoin" on the Twitter platform. Behind this short message is Hal Finney becoming the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction in history: just one day later, Satoshi Nakamoto sent him 10 BTC directly.

While there is intense debate about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, one fact is undisputed: without Hal Finney, Bitcoin might have remained just an obscure whitepaper, rather than the financial revolution we know today.

Furthermore, the approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) for spot trading happened to coincide with the timing of Finney's historic tweet 15 years later, on January 11, 2024.