# 1stBitcoinMiner

>Forensic investigation into Bitcoin's launch to determine who the first Bitcoin users were. It shows how close Bitcoin came to failing, documents what it was like to be a first-day user, and presents several discoveries. The main figures are Satoshi Nakamoto, Hal Finney, and Dustin Trammell, and how these three interacted.

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## Content highlights
### Discoveries
- Hal Finney missed Bitcoin's launch
- Hal Finney joined the Bitcoin network around Block 49
- Two nodes were online when Hal joined, both operated by Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Bitcoin network halted for 24 hours and 8 hours in the first 30 blocks
- Bitcoin halted 8 times in the first 170 blocks

### Sources(what is examined)
The article examines a series of public sources and correlates dates and timestamps:
- Hal Finney's tweet
- Private email conversations between Satoshi and Hal
- Private email conversations between Satoshi and Dustin Trammell
- Hal's node debug.log file (clearest evidence)
- Specific parts of the early Bitcoin client source code and strange behavior
- extraNonce blockchain data and Patoshi pattern in the first 170 blocks
- Posts by Satoshi and Hal on the cryptography mailing list
- Hal Finney’s Bitcoin and Me Bitcointalk post
- Hal Finney’s Bitcoin wallet screenshot (Forbes, 2014)
- Dustin Trammell's cryptographic proof of mining block 309 and his claim of possibly being the second node



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