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Hal Finney was a computer scientist and cryptographer who was an early adopter of Bitcoin and a major contributor to the cypherpunk movement. He was born in Coalinga, California, and attended the California Institute of Technology, where he earned a degree in computer science.
Finney was an early user of the PGP encryption software, and was a major contributor to the cypherpunk mailing list. He was also an early adopter of Bitcoin, and was the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.
Finney was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2009, and died in 2014. He was 58 years old.
Finney was a major contributor to the development of Bitcoin, and was a vocal advocate for its use. He was also a major contributor to the development of the Tor anonymity network.
Finney was posthumously awarded the Satoshi Nakamoto Prize in 2015 for his contributions to the development of Bitcoin.
| Popular As |
Harold Thomas Finney II |
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| Age |
58 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
| Born |
4 May, 1956 |
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4 May |
| Birthplace |
Coalinga, California, US |
| Date of death |
August 28, 2014, |
| Died Place |
Phoenix, Arizona, US |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Who Is Hal Finney's Wife?
His wife is Fran Finney
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Fran Finney |
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Hal Finney Net Worth
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Finney died in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 28, 2014, due to complications of ALS, and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
In March 2013, Finney posted on a Bitcoin forum BitcoinTalk that he was essentially paralyzed, but continued to program. He continued to program until his death; he was working on experimental software called bcflick, which uses Trusted Computing to strengthen Bitcoin wallets.
During the last year of his life, the Finneys received anonymous calls demanding an extortion fee of 1,000 bitcoin. They became victims of swatting – a hoax "where the perpetrator calls up emergency dispatch using a spoofed telephone number and pretends to have committed a heinous crime in the hopes of provoking an armed police response to the victim's home". Extortionists have demanded fees of more bitcoins than Finney had left after using the majority of them to cover medical expenses in 2013.
After graduation from Caltech, he went to work in the computer gaming field for a company that developed video games such as Adventures of Tron, Armor Ambush, Astrosmash and Space Attack. He later went to work for the PGP Corporation with whom he remained until his retirement in 2011.
In October 2009, Finney announced in an essay on the blog Less Wrong that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, a/k/a "Lou Gehrig's disease") in August 2009. Prior to his illness, Finney had been an active runner. Finney and his wife raised money for ALS research with the Santa Barbara International Marathon.
In 2004, Finney created the first reusable proof of work system before bitcoin. In January 2009, Finney was the Bitcoin network's first transaction recipient.
Finney was a noted cryptographic activist. During the early 1990s, in addition to being a regular poster on the cypherpunks listserv, Finney ran two anonymous remailers. Further cryptographic activism included running a (successful) contest to break the export-grade encryption Netscape used.
Harold Thomas Finney II (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games. He also was an early bitcoin contributor and received the first bitcoin transaction from bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Finney was born in Coalinga, California on May 4, 1956, to Virginia and Harold Thomas Finney. His father was a petroleum engineer. He attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating with a BS in engineering in 1979.
