On January 11, 2009, Hal Finney took to Twitter to post just two words: “Running bitcoin.” That brief message tied to a historic first: the next day, Satoshi Nakamoto sent him 10 BTC — marking the first Bitcoin transaction in history. While debate rages over Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity, one fact is undisputed: without Hal Finney, Bitcoin might have remained an obscure whitepaper rather than the financial revolution it’s become today. Fifteen years later, on January 11, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) — a timing that aligned perfectly with Finney’s landmark tweet.
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