Hal Finney
4. Mai 1956 – 28. August 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. März 2013)
- Detecting Double Spending (15. Oktober 1993)
- Digital Cash & Privacy (19. August 1993)
- For-Pay Remailers (28. Oktober 1994)
- PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions (30. März 1994)
- Politics vs Technology (2. Januar 1994)
- Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash (1. Januar 1993)
- RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work (15. August 2004)