Hal Finney: the giant shoulder under bitcoin

Newton once said:

If I see farther than others,

That's because I stand on the shoulders of giants

If this sentence is put in the world of bitcoin

Stop and stop

You think I'm going to talk about Nakamoto again, don't you

Wrong guess.

I'm talking about Hal Finney

Born in California in 1956, graduated from Caltech

He's a Cryptologist

It is also the participant of the earliest PGP encryption work

More importantly, it is the creator of reusable workload proving mechanism

Whether it's cryptography or bitcoin

He's been connected with technology all his life

After graduating from Caltech, fini went to work for a game company

Yes...

He didn't follow the path of cryptography

Fortunately, the world didn't bury the cryptographer

Activist Phil Zimmerman announced on the Internet

The first free encryption software PGP will be released soon

This rekindled Fanny's interest in cryptography_DJMINER


Finney got in touch with him

And became its first collaborator

It is also one of the earliest employees of PGP company

Pgp2.0 for which he has made great contributions

It is the first truly secure version of the recognized PGP encryption program

More Than This

Finney was also the first to combine encryption with email

Two people communicate with each other without knowing each other's identity

Today's anonymous software is developed from this

In addition to cryptographic contributions

In 2004, fini also created

Reusable workload proof mechanism

The pow mechanism we introduced before * was born here

He thought he would have been at PGP

Working on the road of cryptography until the end

But that's how it turned out

Appeared in 2008, a sunny afternoon

(maybe in the afternoon...)

Finney is in an anonymous community

See the assumption of Nakamoto's comparison of special coins

I don't know what Fanny thought at that moment

But he once said in his article

[I've long been interested in crypto payment schemes,

Fortunately, I met Wei Dai and Nick Szabo

And can communicate with them closely,

It is believed that some creative ideas can be realized through bitcoin._DJMINER

I've tried to create my own proof of work mechanism,

Named rpow.

So, when I found bitcoin, I was so fascinated]

He quickly got in touch with Nakamoto

Some modification suggestions are put forward

The collision of two people's information exchange

Make bitcoin speed up the process of landing

When bitcoin software was released

Finney was undoubtedly the first to download

Because there are no more competitors

As a miner, he also dug up 70 bitcoins

He was also the first to receive bitcoin

Yes...

He accepted 10 bitcoins transferred by Nakamoto

I envy you! He deserves it

In the early days of bitcoin software

He provided a lot of feedback and suggestions to Nakamoto

Even "God predicted" the prospect of mining and price rise

But in the first year of bitcoin, 2009

Finney was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Hawking also suffers from this disease

The emergence of the disease soon put Finney's life in a dilemma

Unable to work or even live a normal life

The economic situation is also going down because of the disease

But don't forget what we said

Fini's whole life is closely related to technology

Hal Finney

An expert in cryptography, an early miner of bitcoin

It's also an adopter of human body freezing technology

In August 2014, Hal fini died

His body was transported to the alco life extension foundation

After technology matures

Finney will be awakened here

Maybe a hundred years later, maybe a thousand years later

Awakened by human beings with faith in science and technology_DJMINER

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