Hal Finney
4 мая 1956 г. – 28 августа 2014 г.
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 марта 2013 г.)
- Detecting Double Spending (15 октября 1993 г.)
- Digital Cash & Privacy (19 августа 1993 г.)
- For-Pay Remailers (28 октября 1994 г.)
- PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions (30 марта 1994 г.)
- Politics vs Technology (2 января 1994 г.)
- Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash (1 января 1993 г.)
- RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work (15 августа 2004 г.)
- Steganography No Solution (12 августа 1993 г.)
- The Beauty of ECash (16 марта 1994 г.)
- Why Remailers I (15 ноября 1992 г.)
- Why Remailers II (24 февраля 1993 г.)