Join The ‘Running Bitcoin Challenge’ To Fight ALS In Honor Of Hal Finney
Raise money and run a half marathon between January 1-10 to win prizes and honor the memory of early Bitcoin supporter Hal Finney.Donate bitcoin to fight ALS and win Hal Finney stickers.The Running Bitcoin Challenge runs from January 1-10.Run 13.1 miles and get a limited edition gaiter.Join the Running Bitcoin Challenge from January 1-10 in honor of cypherpunk and Bitcoin early adopter Hal Finney and help raise money to fight ALS.Finney was diagnosed with ALS on August 5, 2009, and passed away in August 2014, after living courageously with the disease for five years. The Running Bitcoin....
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Armory Technologies has extended its ongoing donation drive in honor of late bitcoin developer Hal Finney. Finney, a pioneer in the field of cryptography and the first person to receive a bitcoin transaction, passed away last Tuesday at the age of 58 after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The open-source bitcoin wallet management platform announced today that it would match up to 10 BTC in donations made to the Hal Finney Bitcoin Fund for ALS Research through its 'simulfunding' (simultaneous funding) platform. Originally scheduled to end 1st September, the donation....
If you haven't been living under a rock this summer, you may have seen people close to you dumping ice water on their heads in support of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) research. Sadly, this week, the topic of ALS hit close to home with the loss of Hal Finney, a bitcoin pioneer, and the very first person to receive a bitcoin from Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney was diagnosed with ALS, and in the final years of his life, was confined to a wheelchair, unable to move. And while the ice bucket challenges has done great things for ALS research, members of....
The Bitcoin Talk poll for he name of the 0.0001 Bitcoin unit will be ending at midnight (CST) this Friday. The four choices which made it through the initial stages of voting are as follows: bip - This name stems from the financial term “basis point“. With a bp being 1/100 of 1%, numerically it works out to the same fractional amount, even though it has a different meaning. bit – The original monetary bit referred to an amount commonly used in the colonial U.S., specifically 12.5 cents (1/8 of a Spanish dollar from the era.) finney – This name was suggested in honor of Hal Finney, whose....
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.