A Look at the First Phone-to-Phone Bitcoin Transfer Using a Nokia N900 Smartphone

Bitcoin.com | Oct 23, 2022 at 11:30 PM
  • When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, the full node client came with a wallet often referred to as Bitcoin-Qt.
  • The protocol’s second Bitcoin client in the network’s history, Bitcoind was published on January 9, 2009, and prior to the announcement of BitcoinJ, everyone had to leverage a full node client, also known as Bitcoin-Qt.
  • Despite the fact that no one was able to mine BTC with a mobile phone, Ribuck’s and Doublec’s phone-to-phone transaction was still the first recorded in history via two N900 smartphones.