The recipient of the very first transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain from Satoshi Nakamoto was to a guy by the name of Hal Finney.

Now, we're not software engineers, but if we were, it would make sense for us to send the first transaction to ourselves to make sure the new peer-to-peer payments network we'd just created, works.

Hal Finney just happens to have been a software engineer...

Which is why many believe him to be the original creator of Bitcoin.

(We cannot confirm or deny, but there's plenty of reasons to suggest he is 'Satoshi Nakamoto').

Satoshi has approximately 1.1 million BTC, but it hasn't been touched in over 12 years.

Also, Finney's Twitter account hasn't posted in over 12 years - until Friday.

Hal passed away in August 2014, which is why Crypto Twitter got all riled up when Hal's account started following new people on 16th Dec, 2022.

Some speculated that a hacker might have taken control of Hal's Twitter account; and even his Bitcoin.

BUT, turns out his wife, Fran Finney, discounted any rumours pretty quickly; stating that she had been the one to tweet on behalf of Hal "to avoid his account being purged by Elon" for inactivity.

Hal's Twitter feed has some historic Tweets including one which simply says "Running bitcoin," posted on Jan 10, 2009.

While it seems Hal's account is in safe hands for now, the risk of 'internet history' being deleted by a centralized company (i.e. Twitter), is just one more argument for decentralization.

Preach!