{"id":269,"date":"2016-05-08T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2016-05-08T00:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T00:40:56","slug":"the-hal-finney-bitcoin-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/08\/the-hal-finney-bitcoin-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hal Finney First Bitcoin Transaction Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hal-finney.png\" alt=\"hal finney\" width=\"54\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-275\" \/>This is the bitcoin address associated with Hal Finney and his now famous first transaction with Satoshi Nakamoto on January 12, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoinwhoswho.com\/address\/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3\">1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3<\/a><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hal&#8217;s description of the transaction on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointalk.org\/index.php?topic=155054.0\">bitcointalk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test [bolded address]. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bitcoin&#8217;s first transaction was recorded in block <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.info\/block-index\/15019\">170<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These addresses also received BTC from Satoshi on Jan 12 but the recipients are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>13HtsYzne8xVPdGDnmJX8gHgBZerAfJGEf\u00a0<br \/>\n1LzBzVqEeuQyjD2mRWHes3dgWrT9titxvq\u00a0<br \/>\n1DUDsfc23Dv9sPMEk5RsrtfzCw5ofi5sVW\u00a0<br \/>\n1ByLSV2gLRcuqUmfdYcpPQH8Npm8cccsFg\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the bitcoin address associated with Hal Finney and his now famous first transaction with Satoshi Nakamoto on January 12, 2009. 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[10,32,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitcoinwhoswho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}