Bitcoiner Spends $64K to Inscribe 9MB of Data on Bitcoin Blockchain
A Bitcoin user who remains anonymous has recently deposited around 9 megabytes of unprocessed binary data onto the Bitcoin blockchain for an estimated fee of $64,000. A post on X (formerly Twitter) on January 7 claimed that at approximately 11:20 am UTC on January 6, the Ordinals explorer Ord.io utilized over 1 Bitcoin to generate […]
Crypto community celebrates posthumous birthday of world’s first known Bitcoiner Hal Finney
The crypto community is celebrating the birthday of Hal Finney who was a computer scientist and also the first person to publicly run Bitcoin (BTC), through an iconic tweet on Twitter in 2009. Today is the first Bitcoiner’s birthday, so raise a glass to him. Today would have been Hal Finney’s birthday, as he was […]