Topic: The first Bitcoin payment ever (Read 1118 times)
haha a trip down history :p
10 BTC... that's quite a money these days... 
It seems in the early times, new addresses were not generated but at some point people thought it would be better to generate new addresses for the change to make it harder (not impossible) to trace bitcoins.
That is correct.
It seems in the early times, new addresses were not generated but at some point people thought it would be better to generate new addresses for the change to make it harder (not impossible) to trace bitcoins.
According to my research, this seems to be the first actual transaction recorded in the blockchain:
http://blockchain.info/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16
1. Am I correct or is there an older one?
2. Is this a Satoshi-owned address? I guess so.
3. It's interesting that it doesn't use a change address. The change goes back to the sending address.
[EDIT:] According to this page, it is indeed the first payment ever, and was sent by Satoshi to Hal Finney.
http://blockchain.info/tx/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16
1. Am I correct or is there an older one?
2. Is this a Satoshi-owned address? I guess so.
3. It's interesting that it doesn't use a change address. The change goes back to the sending address.
[EDIT:] According to this page, it is indeed the first payment ever, and was sent by Satoshi to Hal Finney.
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