Hal Finney
1956/5/4 – 2014/8/28
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 (2013年3月19日)
- Detecting Double Spending (1993年10月15日)
- Digital Cash & Privacy (1993年8月19日)
- For-Pay Remailers (1994年10月28日)
- PGP Web of Trust Misconceptions (1994年3月30日)
- Politics vs Technology (1994年1月2日)
- Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash (1993年1月1日)
- RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work (2004年8月15日)