{"id":219839,"date":"2026-08-28T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=219839"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:53:18","slug":"12-years-later-bitcoin-remembers-the-man-who-got-there-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=219839","title":{"rendered":"12 Years Later, Bitcoin Remembers the Man Who Got There First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago today, cryptographer Hal Finney died after a five-year fight with ALS, six years after he became the first person on Earth to receive a bitcoin transaction. His story is still one of the strangest, most human threads running through Bitcoin\u2019s history. A Signature Before Bitcoin Had a Price Before bitcoin had a [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years ago today, cryptographer Hal Finney died after a five-year fight with ALS, six years after he became the first person on Earth to receive a bitcoin transaction. His story is still one of the strangest, most human threads running through Bitcoin\u2019s history. A Signature Before Bitcoin Had a Price Before bitcoin had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":219840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}