# From Block 49 to Block 170

By [Canurta.eth](https://paragraph.com/@canurta) · 2025-05-13

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**Honoring Hal, and the Energy of Firsts**
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On our Bitcoin node at Canurta, we recently verified something humbling — not on an explorer, but through the raw console, peering directly into the chain.

We traced **Block 49**, mined just days after the Genesis Block. It’s the last block seen by Hal Finney’s node before he reported a crash. It may even be the block his machine mined.

In it sits a **coinbase reward of 50 BTC**, untouched to this day — a still, silent reservoir of energy created in the network’s infancy. It hasn’t moved, but it echoes.

Just a few days later, at **Block 170**, that energy shifted.

Satoshi sent Hal **the first Bitcoin transaction** ever recorded. 10 BTC — peer to peer, human to human, intention to intention.

### **🧭 From Running the Client to Running the Future**

For us at Canurta, these two blocks — 49 and 170 — are more than trivia.

They represent something sacred in the rhythm of innovation:

*   🟠 **Block 49**: the unknown moment you _begin_, when the node connects, the crash happens, but the effort is real.
    
*   🟢 **Block 170**: the moment the world _responds_, and something new is validated, on-chain and in life.
    

### **🧬 Proof of Purpose: Our Bitcoin Commitment**

At Canurta, we’re building something equally foundational — a decentralized future for **adaptive medicine**, powered by science and protected by principles.

As we grow our treasury under the **Satoshi Trials strategy**, we’ve made a symbolic commitment:

🔐 **We will dedicate the first 50 BTC we hold to Block 49 and Block 170.**

They will sit at the heart of our digital balance sheet, not as an investment — but as a monument.

A reminder that energy doesn’t just power a chain. It can power a mission.

### **✨ To Builders, Dreamers, and Endurers**

Hal’s node didn’t need fanfare. It didn’t need permission. It didn’t even work at first.

But it mattered.

And maybe the most meaningful parts of what we build — in life, in Bitcoin, in medicine — are not the ones that move first… but the ones that endure longest.

We honour that energy. We intend to carry it forward. We will use it to #FightALS.

**\-- Akeem Gardner**

Founder & CEO, Canurta Therapeutics

_#SatoshiTrials #Block49 #Block170 #ProofOfPurpose_

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*Originally published on [Canurta.eth](https://paragraph.com/@canurta/from-block-49-to-block-170)*