People and stories · personal accounts and documents
Behind the events, people.
A first transfer, a rediscovered wallet, code shared with strangers. Personal accounts sit alongside stories about participants — but recollections do not replace documentary evidence.
1 personal account · 4 documented storiesPersonal accounts
A story in the first person
Personal circumstances and recollections are identified as lived experience, not independently verified facts. Each account identifies its author.
People in the records
Actions that became part of history
These are source-based editorial articles, not submitted memoirs. They already exist in the archive; this collection brings together the people behind its early events.
Ten BTC Between Two Computers
The first known transfer from Satoshi to Hal Finney tested whether the network could preserve one action between two participants.
Read documented storyMay 22, 201010,000 BTC for two pizzas: loss or proof?
One exchange showed that digital units could leave the screen and purchase a real result.
Read documented storyJune 11, 2010The faucet that gave away 5 BTC
Gavin Andresen committed his own coins so strangers could verify the network for themselves.
Read documented storySeptember 18, 201010,000 BTC for an open-source GPU miner
Jeff Garzik funded the release of code that an entire community could inspect and extend.
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