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2014
Event
milestone
Hal Finney dies
What happened
Hal Finney — the first person to run Bitcoin besides Satoshi and the recipient of the first transaction — died of ALS and was cryonically preserved, as he had planned.
Significance
The loss of one of Bitcoin's most beloved figures, and a poignant bookend to the era of the people who were there at the very beginning.