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First bitcoin transaction

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The first bitcoin transaction was a payment of 10 bitcoins from Satoshi to Hal Finney, included in block 170 on 12 January 2009.[1][2] Finney had been running v0.1 since its release, and the two were exchanging bug reports at the time (their emails).

See also

References

  1. History of bitcoin, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 20 October 2026.
  2. Block 170, the Bitcoin blockchain (Blockstream block explorer).

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