Topic: Bitcoin Piooner, Hal Finney and Eight Years Remembrance (Read 461 times)

Truly, an individual whose mark on the realm of digital currency is unparalleled. Hal's work created a solid basis that shows the possibilities of decentralised digital currency. This is about more than simply money and books; it's about altering financial structures and ensuring that everyone on the earth has an equal chance to succeed.

It's interesting, and here's a fact that could sound a little like nonsense but is still interesting: Hal was posthumously cryopreserved. As a result, there is a slim chance that we might see him again in the future due to developments in technology and medicine. The individual who created the foundation for the financial future is deserving of another chance at life more than anybody else.

I know I have stumbled upon the post of Hal Finney before and re-reading it made me feel so empathetic with what he had gone through. He is in a better place now and it is indeed that he is a legend and has a great legacy.

I hope that everyone gets motivated with the technological curiosity that he has towards Bitcoin etc.

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It's nine years already that we had an ugly experience which led to the departure of our dear beloved Hero and Mentor Hal Finney, i almost forgot this not until i came across the post on Twitter https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1696133488385097974?t=zDfLnlfACGhK5RTLUIXj0g&s=19 in remembrance of his departure yesterday, bitcointalk community missed you and the whole decentralized digital network and blockchain technology missed you, i recently bumped this thread as well in marking the very last day Hal made his bitcointalk forum post and now it's an another day to remember of his demise but his legacies remained till eternity, continue to rest Hal, you've acted your own part before you left and we are part of the beneficiaries to that with bitcoin today.

Removed the link.
While I get where you are coming from with your statement, I don't really think it's something that can / will really help to protect any family members in the sense that all this info is publicly available and people will continue to specualte. For a good reason, humans are curious and with such a massive invention like Bitcoin, this will sooner or later be part of public mainstream-knowledge. Including all the possible scenarios to who SN could most likely be.

Happy posthumous birthday Hal Finney. It's been 9 years since you departed to the great beyond but your legacy speaks. You've left footprints in our hearts, you've left indelible marks on the sands of time. Live forevermore legend!

A lot of Twitter bitcoinists were twitting about his birthday and it's good to see that he's been celebrated all around the world for his contribution to the success of bitcoin.

It's advisable not to contribute to (or provide links to) such speculation.  Whoever satoshi may have been, they're considered wealthy beyond reason.  With such a vast fortune seemingly unclaimed, you're effectively painting a target on the backs of Hal Finney's surviving relatives.  Something he certainly wouldn't have wanted.  Show him respect by not endangering his loved ones.

Even in death, people seemingly can't have peace these days.   

Wonderful shoutout to a true legend.
One of the sentiments I tend to repeat: Some day in the future we will see the bitcoin whitepaper published in schoolbooks. Hopefully with a big mention of Hal Finney, too.

Got me to check up on the infamous Who-Is-Satoshi-Debate. There is quite a bit of circumstancial evidence that SN was indeed Hal Finney, but I removed the link on request out of respect to Hal Finney and family.
It's not really a secret though, so don't really believe it makes a (huge) difference.

Permit me to bump this thread as it's almost two days ago in remembrance of Hal Finney Birthday celebration.

Happy Birthday to Hal Finney You will never be forgotten in the history of life and digital technology, it's almost two days now before wishing you a happy birthday but i believe it's never too late in saying happy birthday in arrears Hal of blessed memory, born May 4, 1956 and rest to retire from this sinful world on 28th August 2014.

On behalf of I and the entire bitcointalk community we are wishing you a happy birthday as you're part of the reason we all have this common goal of financial freedom through your perfect determination on research and development being a cypherpunk, we love you, we met down the history you laid and we enjoy every bit of your contributions to bitcoin.

Happy Birthday in Arrears!
Continue to Rest in Peace Hal.

All i wish right now is that nature should return us back with his kind, as to everyone of us, let's put in mind that life is very short but we must live our best while in it, we should create time for quality things that could not only benefit us but the entire world, am very sure he will forever be remembered on earth and still be rewarded in eternity.

Thanks, PowerGlove for including that link in your reply. I read the thread and indeed I was motivated not only by his contribution to Bitcoin but by his courage and doggedness. At a time when nobody believed in Bitcoin, he believed and engaged in the unbelievable. Not captivated by the get-rich-quick syndrome that is currently ravaging the world he patiently waited for the reward of his input in the development of Bitcoin. I am greatly motivated by his last days that was very challenging due to a deadly disease. Regardless of this illness, he still ensured that he was productive even when he had every reason to be otherwise. Indeed he is worth celebrating every year.

Yeah, maybe technology and innovation will offer us the chance to bid on his frozen body I guess that will cost billions of dollars in Bitcoin, am interested in reading the writing on his skin, I guess there will be so many encryption and codes written on them. He is indeed a legend just like Satoshi is there will always be remembered 8 years, such an early departure considering the years of Bitcoin's existence.

A Legend, a true pioneer in every sense, his contribution to this great tech will never be forgotten, Hal was the closest thing any bitcoiner has to know satoshi the true genius.
He dedicates his life to contributing to a tech that will revolutionize the entire financial system and that is a true achievement. I hope he finds peace in the great beyond because his legacy will live on.

"Since we’re all rich with bitcoins, or we will be once they're worth a million dollars like everyone expects, we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use."

Really says a lot about him — even calling it unearned. Also taking note how much of a privacy nightmare the internet is today, it takes a real optimist — a person with such a positive mindset to be optimistic.

Rest in peace to the man who partly made Bitcoin possible. Not only was Hal the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction, which was sent by Satoshi himself/herself/themselves, he was there right from the start, way back when Bitcoin was unknown to the public and was only discussed among a handful of individuals. So this venerable man must have been one of the few who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin, polished everything before it was finally released to the public.

Not sure when he got this disease but it becomes worse and worse when he gets older.

Hal Finney and Stephen Hawkins live are very motivational stories for the young. "If there is a will, there is a way" as Albert Einstein wrote, they found own ways to live and contribute with their passions.

Furthermore, when we are talking about Hal Finney, don't forget about Satoshi Nakamoto and his lesson. They are all models we can learn from their contributions.

I thought he had ALS since his childhood and not in the last years of his life, and I also didn't think he was a developer but a technology explorer.
In general, his achievement, optimism, and words are very motivating and encouraging, and I hope that the entire Bitcoin community will be as well.

If Hal were here, I would tell him these exact words - Thank you Hal for birthing crypto. Thank you for making the world economic system better and for giving us the opportunity to have a beautiful future to look forward to. The world is a better place because of you. Hal is a definition of a true legend. He was way ahead of his time and he stuck to his convictions about the financial system.

He is one of the few people I believe could be real satoshi. He was the first person Satoshi "talked" with, which I believe could be all by himself, looking at the last ever message given by Satoshi ever? It was before Hal died, and after he did, we have never heard from Satoshi ever again and he never publicly did anything.

I know that it is not going to be that easy, and I know that it is quite a tough thing to accept that maybe satoshi is dead, but that is what I believe. Of course it is a possibility that we might be wrong, but that doesn't change the fact that we haven't heard from Satoshi since then, so why? Maybe it is actually true and not a mistake.

It's sort of giving that proud feeling that he's been here in the forum together with satoshi. And now, all of us here are enjoying the early works that he has done for bitcoin and for the community. Although, there would be speculations that he really is the actual satoshi but let's just separate the two personalities that have both changed the lives of many which includes me. Much respect for Hal for being selfless and for contributing a lot to the bitcoin project that has been once being doubted by many. But look at where it is right now, changed millions of lives and still going on.

Very nice to see images of him again.

He was such an influence in the cryptography space and obviously had an influence
on Satoshi's work to create Bitcoin before launch while he was a 'member' of the cypherpunks.

What a legend

I found his wife on twitter she last updated her running bitcoin logs on January 10th, the Running bitcoin challenge hashtag is alive but not frequently updated. Fran Finney is an amazing woman and she is doing a lot to keep the legacy of Hal Finney.





The running bitcoin sculpture created by Marcus Connor last year for the remembrance of Hal Finney on his birthday, looks much more like the way Finney ran for bitcoin in his days.





 "Lifetime Achievement Award" Hal received at PGP in October 2009. (Phil Zimmermann on left)


Hal Finney with Fran Finney



The Marathon man




I guess a thread about Hal Finney's remembrance won't be complete without amazing pictures of Hal and his Wife Fran being shared on the thread to help us have a virtual memory of him.  A great man in the bitcoin, cryptography and privacy department of the internet.

Got the pictures from Fran Finney's official twitter page.

They say he worked right to the end, coding for Bitcoin until he died. What a legend.... and also privileged to be one of the first people to work with Satoshi Nakamoto. (not a lot of people had that privilege)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) took his body, but it could not take his legacy. A lot of people go out of this world, without making any significant impact on the world, but Hal Finney left it with the knowledge that he improved a lot of people's lives. 

Rest in Peace ... Hal Finney!

The man, the myth, the legend.

Let's hope that his frozen body(cryogenics)[1] would amount to something some time in the future.

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[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/

And who will forget this tweet, probably one of the earliest tweet about Bitcoin:



https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988

So yes, Hal is one of the pioneer and it's just sad that he was taken away from us very early. But at least we have seen his writings in this community and other social media and you can see how he is really into bitcoin very early because he understand what "anonymity" means. He even have tweets about reducing CO2 emissions from bitcoin mining. He and others are really ahead of their time.

I am sure that people who are deep into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency somehow cam across with the name of Hal Finney, aside of course from the most famous Satoshi Nakamoto. Hal lived a very exciting and pioneering time for the world of cryptocurrency and his contributions for its eventual development and popularity should never be forgotten...he is one of the few we can consider as a Bitcoin Hero who paved the way for the things happening right now and into the future.

Hal is an absolute legendary member in the bitcoin community and we were lucky to have him here for some time. Hal was obviously such a big part of bitcoins uprising and I always find it fascinating how he was just one of very few who took bitcoin seriously from the get go when Satoshi dropped the white paper. Wish he was still around, I wonder what bitcoin might look like if he was!

Yeah, Hal was awesome!

His final thread is very much worth reading: Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)

Edit: You should fix the small typo you have in the topic title.

8 years since 2014!  I feel old.  How does time pass so quickly?

Bless his soul.  He will always be one of the biggest and most well known figures of Bitcoin and a mystery due to the speculative association with the identity of Nakamoto.  A great and very intelligent guy nonetheless.

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Regards,
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Yesterday 28th August, 2022 marks it exactly 8 years after the departure of a great bitcoin pioneer and hero Hal Finney who died on the 28th August, 2014, he was born on the  4th of May 1956 in Coalinga California United States, He lived 56 years old before his death in Scottsdale Arizona United States but his impact in the world of digital currency (bitcoin) remains evergreen, as he was popularly known to be the first recipient of a bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto in the history of bitcoin and aside that, he was also the developer that master the technology for PGP corporation.

Hal Finney is indeed a great Cypherpunk who has remained commited and a devoted software engineer, his coast of coverage where without boarders in the world of digital technology, he has contributed in many progressive projects and serve his best initiatives unto humanity before his departure, he's a coder that stand the test of time who has worked in performing research all through his lifetime and of no doubt he is privacy conscious in his doings which is part of what we all benefits from till today in a decentralized network, not until a deadly Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) came to take away his life and place him in the cold hands of death.
May his soul continue to rest in peace and his legacy remains for generations!.
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