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I conducted a 5-month forensic investigation into Bitcoin’s very early days, and this led me to discover the following never-before-known facts about Bitcoin’s launch:

Hal Finney missed Bitcoin’s launch
Hal Finney joined the Bitcoin network around Block 49
There were 2 nodes online when Hal joined ; both were Satoshi Nakamoto
The Bitcoin network halted for 24 hours and 8 hours in the first 30 blocks
In total, Bitcoin halted 8 times in the first 170 blocks
The research shows how close Bitcoin came to not taking off at all, and without Hal Finney and Dustin Trammell, it might have quietly disappeared.

But more importantly it allowed me to paint a vivid picture of what it must have been like to be one of the first people to use Bitcoin.