Hal Finney Quotes

Nine days after this poignant inscription, the first ever transaction using bitcoin took place between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney, an early advocate and Bitcoin developer. Nine months later the first exchange rate would be set for bitcoin, valuing it at eight one-hundredths of a cent per coin, or 1,309 bitcoin to the dollar.29 A dollar invested then would be worth over $1 million by the start of 2017, underscoring the viral growth that the innovation was poised to enjoy.

Hal Finney, in order to be Nakamoto, required that you fantasize an elaborate pantomime in which he created sock-puppet accounts to send emails to himself; in which, despite having access to hundreds of millions of dollars, he didn’t spend any of it on life-extending healthcare or leave it to the family who would live on without him, or to the cause, ALS research, to which his wife Fran would soon devote herself;

What about Hal Finney? “In some ways, he’s my favorite. He has the useful distinction of being dead. But Satoshi had been silent for some time before he died. But Hal’s health was declining. I mean, none of them seem plausible, especially Hal, because he was very ill. A lot of money would have been helpful.” Unless he lost the keys.