#767: The First Bitcoin Miner with Alex Waltz

Marty sits down with Alex Waltz to discuss his forensic investigation into Bitcoin's first seventy-two hours, which uncovers that Satoshi Nakamoto likely ran both a clearnet and Tor node to bootstrap the network, reveals Hal Finney as the third node but second person to join, and exposes how the nascent blockchain ground to a halt eight separate times. Alex on X: https://x.com/raw_avocado Alex’s Website: https://alexwaltz.com/ Alex on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexWaltz21/ Alex’s Findings: https://1stbitcoinminer.com/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/yHGkvYxdqT Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Bitkey https://bitkey.world/ Aven https://www.aven.com/bitcoin CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Lygos https://lygos.finance/ Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Websi…