Satoshi Nakamoto made the first cryptocurrency transaction, sending Hal Finney 100 BTC on January 12th, 2009."
Finney died on the August 28th, 2014, of natural causes relating to ALS.
More stuff to discover:
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1898754.0
https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-nakamoto/
https://twitter.com/jdeezymusic/status/953903633623666689
- jdeezymusic
In the mailing list, SN closed with the following:
When that runs out, the system can support transaction fees if
needed. It's based on open market competition, and there will
probably always be nodes willing to process transactions for free.Satoshi Nakamoto
