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Many in the Bitcoin community continue to speculate that cryptographer Hal Finney was Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. origin »
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Hal Finney was a true pioneer in the crypto world, still surrounded by countless mysterious legends. Was he the elusive founder of Bitcoin (BTC)? What was his contribution to the crypto industry? Read on to discover the story. Who is…
2025-3-25 00:55 | |
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Seven years ago today, Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney passed away from complications of ALS. He’ll always be remembered for “running bitcoin.”
2021-8-28 16:00 | |
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Hal Finney battled ALS until his death on August 28, 2014. Six years later, we’re working with the Bitcoin community to continue that fight. The post Our Hero Hal: Fundraising For A Bitcoin Visionary appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-8-29 19:17 | |
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The identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder is the subject of endless and dedicated speculation among the hardcore crypto crowd, and for good reason: the mystery truly is enticing. While the oft-cited candidates are many, there’s something special about avid runner, cypherpunk and early Bitcoin contributor Harold Thomas Finney II, better known simply as Hal, that […] The post The Many Facts Pointing to Hal Being Satoshi appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-11-20 14:45 | |
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Five years on from the untimely demise of Hal Finney, a pioneer in Bitcoin development, the community is planning a run in remembrance of him on Friday, 6th September 2019. Bitcoin enthusiasts are urged to join the run through posting pictures of their run on social media using the tag #RunForHalFinney. Hal Finney, Pioneer in […]
2019-9-4 20:36 | |
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Bitcoiners around the world are vowing to run this Friday in memory of the late bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney.
2019-9-4 16:00 | |
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On September 6, 2019, Bitcoiners will celebrate Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney by taking up one of his favorite past times: running. The post Celebrating a Pioneer, Bitcoiners Will #RunForHalFin appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-9-6 21:11 | |
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Over the years many people have speculated on what the price of 1 BTC could be if the world switched to Bitcoin. If a large amount of global wealth moves into Bitcoin, the price would skyrocket.
2019-8-26 00:00 | |
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For a long time, there have been lots of people coming up with their own predictions in regard to the future price of Bitcoin. People like Tim Draper and Tom Lee has estimated Bitcoin to hit above $100k in the coming years.
2019-8-26 22:01 | |
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Just a week after the bitcoin genesis block in January 2009, computer scientist Hal Finney published a price prediction model of $10,000,000 per coin based on it becoming the world’s dominant payments system.
2019-8-25 16:00 | |
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Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours.
2019-8-24 12:41 | |
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The rise of multi-billion-dollar custodians, like Coinbase, have revived historical fears that institutions could erode the founding principles of Bitcoin as decentralized, sound money. Cryptographer and legendary BTC pioneer Hal Finney made an optimistic prediction about just this nearly a decade ago.
2019-8-22 20:28 | |
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On January 12, 2009, the first ever Bitcoin transaction between the still-elusive Satoshi Nakamoto and the late cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney was made. As Finney himself described in a forum post he made on March 2014, Nakamoto had sent him […] The post The Evolution of Cryptocurrency Payments appeared first on CoinMarketCap.
2019-5-22 17:58 | |
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In roughly three days, on Feb. 7, Cryptograffiti’s latest art auction on Bitify will come to an end. “Running Bitcoin,” a tribute to the legendary cryptographer Hal Finney, currently has a bid of $31,000 at the time of writing.
2019-2-5 04:29 | |
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On January 11, ten years ago, Hal Finney wrote a tweet about Bitcoin. Running bitcoin — halfin (@halfin) January 11, 2009 The late cypherpunk and cryptographer had just become the first person to receive the digital currency from its creator Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
2019-1-11 06:00 | |
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With the 10th anniversary of the first Bitcoin transaction looming just around the corner, the global effects and the cryptocurrencies that have been created since are still a part of a market teeming with uncertainty.
2019-1-8 21:11 | |
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Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, (almost certainly) a pseudonym, that no one has been able to conclusively connect to an actual person or group of people to this day.
2019-1-3 06:42 | |
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A few months ago, a report related to Hal Finney being cryopreserved spread on the internet. Hal Finney was a developer that worked with Bitcoin and received the first transaction made on the Bitcoin network.
2018-12-26 23:28 | |
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Bitcoin historians will recollect that the early cryptocurrency pioneer Hal Finney was a person who believed in life extension and chose to be frozen in cryopreservation. Now a recent report shows that a good number of well-known blockchain advocates are also convinced that an ‘extropian-like’ technology may extend the lives of humans in the future.
2018-12-24 18:30 | |
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Of late, there has been a lot of speculation about the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator, a popular anonymous figure that goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto. But there hasn’t been a serious focus on the people who might have greatly contributed to Bitcoin’s success as the first ever functional cryptocurrency.
2018-11-1 19:51 | |
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Is it Possible to Learn About Cryptocurrencies Through a Cryptopreserved Brain? At the moment, there is no information about who Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s creator, really is. Some speculation was focused around Hal Finney, an important and recognised software developer.
2018-10-9 21:17 | |
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There has been some speculation over the years about whether the late software developer, Hal Finney, was actually Satoshi Nakamoto. Some people wonder if he had any connection to the 700,000 bitcoins mined back in the earliest days of the protocol.
2018-10-8 21:25 | |
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Image Source: Sirin Labs (screenshot) Sirin Labs plans to launch a $1,000 cryptocurrency phone in November. Dubbed “Finney,” the phone is named for Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney. Sirin calls it a “State of the art mobile device” for the “blockchain era.
2018-7-14 04:12 | |
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Termed “Finney,” in homage to Bitcoin evangelist Hal Finney, the latest Sirin Labs phone is priced at $1,000 and boasts of powerful computing software and unmatched privacy. The post Coming Soon: The Sirin Labs $1000 Cryptocurrency Focused Phone appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-7-13 01:11 | |
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Sirin Labs, the company behind the $16,000 Solarin smartphone, has unveiled designs for its latest device, a new blockchain-based smartphone known as the FINNEY. Named after Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney,.
2018-7-13 15:06 | |
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