Bitcoin News in Review: Hal Finney, Mark Karpelès, Mining Gear, and More
With the end of another week, it's time for the Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week, (24 August - 31 August), we lost Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, saw Mark Karpelès launch a new company, checked out some new mining gear, and more. Check out our video and keep scrolling for this Bitcoin News in Review, after the break. Remembering Hal Finney. For those who didn't know him, Hal Finney was always extremely active in the cryptology community. Finney was one of the earliest members of the PGP Corporation and ran the....
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Hal Finney was arguably one of the earliest bitcoin pioneers, having been the second person to receive bitcoin after Satoshi Nakamoto himself. Yet beyond his role in the history of digital currency, Finney was also a cryptographic master, a veteran of bitcoin mining and a voice - sometimes prophetic - within the community at large. By perusing Finney's post history on the Bitcoin Talk forum, one can see that he foresaw the promise of bitcoin and its meteoric rise at the end of 2013 while the technology was still in its infancy. CoinDesk collected a number of quotes from Finney's Bitcoin....
The First Bitcoin Transaction took place in 2009 January 12! Satoshi Nakamoto sent 100 BTC to Hal Finney. About Finney: Hal Finney (born May 4, 1956) is a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmerman. In 2004, Finney created the first reusable proof of work system before Bitcoin. In January 2009, Finney was the Bitcoin network’s first recipient transaction.
August 28th marks the day in which one of the earliest Bitcoin users passed away: Hal Finney. Finney was born on May 4th, 1956 in Coalinga, California. Born as the son of a petroleum engineer, Finney attended the California Institute of Technology where he graduated with a BS in engineering. Though his upbringing and origins […]