Hal Finney
04 maggio 1956 – 28 agosto 2014
Hal Finney was a software engineer and an early member of the Cypherpunks. Finney was a notable advocate of cryptography and digital privacy. He worked for the PGP Corporation, where he developed some of the earliest PGP code. He also built the first anonymous remailer, the first proof-of-work based digital cash system, RPOW (Reusable Proofs of Work), and received the very first Bitcoin transaction sent by Satoshi Nakamoto. Hal died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 2014 and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
Library
- Bitcoin and Me (19 marzo 2013)
- Detecting Double Spending (15 ottobre 1993)
- Digital Cash & Privacy (19 agosto 1993)
- For-Pay Remailers (28 ottobre 1994)
- PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions (30 marzo 1994)
- Politics vs Technology (2 gennaio 1994)
- Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash (1 gennaio 1993)
- RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work (15 agosto 2004)
- Steganography No Solution (12 agosto 1993)
- The Beauty of ECash (16 marzo 1994)
- Why Remailers I (15 novembre 1992)
- Why Remailers II (24 febbraio 1993)