Hal Finney

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Hal Finney’s $10 Million Bitcoin Prediction – Are We Still Early?

15 Oct 2024 1 minute read 3 comments alberdioni8406

It's common to see people nowadays predicting how much Bitcoin will worth in the coming years, some putting the digital decentralized coin on hundreds of thousands of dollars but, did you know that also the OG cypherpunk Hal Finney predicted the Bitc...

Why I Changed My Name

30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Bfab

They tried to phish me again, and hence I changed my name... Another day, another scam attempt on X. This time they offered me translation work, followed by a "conf call." The invite link, however, was a phishing attempt disguised as Microsoft Teams,...

Hal Finney, Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction

18 Mar 2023 4 minute read 4 comments RocketEnthusiast

Hal Finney was a computer scientist and software developer by trade. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1979. After graduating, he went on to develop half a doze...

Hal Finney; a REAL Satoshi Nakamoto.

29 Nov 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Hippos4ever

I’m sure some of you clicked on this article ready to flame about how he (Hal Finney) isn’t, or couldn’t be “the REAL Satoshi Nakamoto”, and to that I have to say... step off bitch, we are all Satoshi. But in a more literal sense... he was at least a...

Who is the REAL Satoshi? TOP 6 Candidates

1 Jun 2020 18 minute read 26 comments Ravir3z

Who is the REAL Satoshi? This is a question that pretty much keeps me up some nights. Every time I see Satoshi being mentioned in news articles I instantly go down the rabbit hole to see if there is any more information that might help me come to my...

Hal Finney Used Macs, Satoshi Did Not

29 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments author_nan

Much speculation has formed about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, with no conclusive evidence for any of the candidates. However, now the Twitter posts from one of the most popular candidates, Hal Finney, has some individuals ruling out the possibi...

Is This a Satoshi Nakamoto Post From 1999?

22 Apr 2020 1 minute read 9 comments author_nan

Several reports are emerging about a particular post in a Cypherpunks’ mailing list from 1999 - which some seem to think could have been written by Satoshi Nakamoto.  The post saw members discuss the concept of “e-cash.” Specifically, one anonymous m...

Year 2140. How much could Bitcoin cost when it was mined to the last coin?

3 Mar 2020 3 minute read 0 comments DonMorello

As you probably know, one day the mining of BTC will end and the miners will only verify transaction for fees. It is expected that this will occur around 2140. Let us ask, for the sake of interest, how much Bitcoin could cost at that time and what va...