According to @BitMEXResearch, a resurfaced Hal Finney quote warns that some uses of the Bitcoin distributed database are arguably not a good use yet nothing stops people from doing this, indicating such activity can occur and cannot be prevented; source: @BitMEXResearch on X, Sep 29, 2025, linking to x.com/Nisi347/status/1972739712394944662. For trading, this underscores the need to monitor BTC on-chain activity and network usage beyond payments when planning entries, exits, and fee-sensitive execution; source: @BitMEXResearch on X, Sep 29, 2025.

According to the source, the first-ever Bitcoin-related tweet was Hal Finney’s Running bitcoin posted on January 11, 2009, marking the earliest public social media reference to BTC. Source: Hal Finney on X, 2009-01-11, https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988 For traders, peer-reviewed research shows that spikes in search and social attention correlate with higher short-term Bitcoin returns and volatility, so narrative-driven resurfacings can be meaningful for intraday risk management. Sources: Kristoufek 2013 arXiv 1305.3766 https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3766; Garcia et al. 2014 EPJ Data Science https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0015-7 Actionable watchlist: monitor X mentions of Bitcoin and Google Trends alongside intraday volume and order book imbalance, and validate sentiment signals using independent social volume metrics. Sources: Kristoufek 2013 https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3766; Santiment Social Volume methodology https://academy.santiment.net/metrics/social/social-volume/