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@ Akeem Gardner
2025-06-06 16:27:15Originally shared on Mirror.xyz/canurta.eth on May 6th, 2025
Hal Finney helped start the chain.
When he tweeted “Running Bitcoin” in 2009, he did more than launch a network—he became its first human node. He mined the first blocks. He received the first transaction. And then, not long after, he received an ALS diagnosis.
But here’s the part that never leaves me: he kept going.
Even as his body weakened, Hal kept coding with speech‑to‑text software. He stayed plugged in. He called Bitcoin “an exciting possibility.” He kept contributing because each new block gave him purpose—a signal that his energy was still shaping the future.
And now, it is.
At Canurta, we will pioneer the Satoshi Trials™, using the power of Bitcoin in our Corporate Treasury to fund R\&D. With every block, we’re moving closer to a world where we can show how nature can be harnessed as the best medicine. We’re translating block time into biological progress.
This isn’t metaphor. It’s design— with the deeper purpose to complete the loop: the same digital system that gave Hal hope will now help us fund and fuel ALS research. His energy—immortalized in the Bitcoin ledger—is powering a therapeutic frontier that could one day deliver on what he never got to see.
We believe in transparency. Like Bitcoin, our science will remain verifiable and open.
We believe in persistence. Like Bitcoin, our model compounds over time.
And we believe in decentralized resilience—because it will take more than one institution to solve ALS.
This ALS Awareness Month, we’re not just remembering Hal Finney.
We’re building with him.
One block at a time.
-- Akeem Gardner