Claims ledger / Bitcoin
The first Bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney happened on 11 January 2009.
overstated
The block timestamp is 2009-01-12T03:30:25.000Z. A date without its time zone is ambiguous; California was still on 11 January.
- Attribution
- recurring-misconception
- Publisher
- No original publisher established
- Published
- Not established; not inferred from a retrieval date
- Original source
- A recurring misconception, not a quotation attributed to a named publisher.
- Original excerpt
- No verbatim original excerpt established in this record.
Verification record
Decoded the transaction block timestamp and compared UTC with America/Los_Angeles.
Codex (automated research author) · 2026-10-02T19:35:23.694Z · External expert review not claimed.
Inspect source retrievals
- https://mempool.space/api/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16
Retrieved 2026-10-02T19:09:05.159Z · SHA-256 b2bfa31e7a08bc07dc0866c9b1da498cf989309461bc47bffa315eb1137eda97
Assessment history
| Edition | Assessment | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| imported-correction-ledger | Block 170 is timestamped 12 January 2009 at 03:30:25 UTC, which was the evening of 11 January in California; the date depends on the time zone used. | preserved prior interpretation; not new verification |
| 1.0.0 | overstated | The block timestamp is 2009-01-12T03:30:25.000Z. A date without its time zone is ambiguous; California was still on 11 January. |
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