Forbes' Andy Greenberg Starts Bitcoin Fundraiser For Hal Finney
Several days ago, a really good piece by Forbes staff writer Andy Greenberg entitled Nakamoto's Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin's Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius began making its rounds on social media. The piece, if you haven't had a chance to read it, surrounds Hal Finney, one of the first people (aside from Satoshi Nakamoto) to embrace the bitcoin technology. I won't go into specifics, but one of the things Greenberg's piece focuses on is Finney's deteriorating health. Suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a terminal illness affecting the muscles, Using eye....
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Image courtesy of Forbes. A little before 9:00 am on the morning of August 28th, 2014, Hal Finney was declared clinically dead in the Intensive Care Unit of a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. After a 5-year battle with ALS, Hal Finney is now in cryopreservation awaiting the advent of new technologies that might cure him. Earlier this week, Hal Finney and his wife Fran Finney arrived in Scottsdale, which is home to an Alcor cryopreservation facility, in preparation for the next adventuring step in Hal Finney's already accomplished life. The news of Hal's cryopreservation was shared by Alcor....
A connection between the late computer scientist, Hal Finney, and Dorian Nakamoto could hold the answer to the creator of Bitcoin’s identity. The identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been the cause of much speculation since the cryptocurrency was created. This has especially been the case in recent weeks after Craig Wright claimed to be the man himself. An oft-overlooked connection between the late computer scientist, Hal Finney, and Dorian Nakamoto, born Satoshi, could hold the answer. Hal Finney. Hal Finney was a computer scientist and pre-Bitcoin....
The bitcoin community has launched fundraisers for two individuals involved in bitcoin's creation five years ago - or at least one of them is. So far, the community has raised $21,000 for Dorian S Nakamoto, a humble Californian retiree who was named as the creator of bitcoin by Lea McGrath Goodman's controversial Newsweek cover story. Nakamoto insists that he has nothing to do with bitcoin. Rather than living like a millionaire, he appears to lead a very humble life, which prompted some members of the bitcoin community to launch a fundraiser. After all, it seems Nakamoto was hounded for no....