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 On Jan. 17, 1993, Hal Finney, the person known for receiving the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, wrote an email with the subject “ #Crypto trading cards” on the online service CompuServe to the #Cypherpunks members, where he mentioned a more interesting way of exchanging digital cash through cryptographic trading cards, as referenced below. #Bitcoin  #nostr #ordinals #stamps #runes #nfts


“Collect a whole set! They come in all kinds of varieties, from the common 1’s to the rarer 50’s, all the way up to the seldom-seen 1000’s” Finney said in the message. This is literally describing NFTs at the present time.

https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-trading-cards-how-hal-finney-thought-about-the-concept-of-nfts-over-30-years-ago/ https://image.nostr.build/bbcc7e3bc23f751d42b400891504a7f67dab8306b31e56604eef047780f9e7da.jpg