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TODAY WE REMEMBER HAL FINNEY, ONE OF #BITCOIN’S FIRST BELIEVERS 🧡
12 years ago, on August 28, 2014, Hal Finney passed away from ALS.
👉 Bitcoin history is about people who believed before the world understood.
✅ First person to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi
✅ Cypherpunk and cryptographer
✅ PGP contributor
✅ Creator of Reusable Proofs of Work
✅ Final forum post: “I’m pretty lucky overall.”
Hal helped carry Bitcoin from an idea into reality.
RUNNING BITCOIN. FOREVER. ♾️ 👟
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2026-08-28 13:16:25 UTCEvent JSON
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