Was Hal Finney Satoshi? — RPOW's author, with a real Satoshi Nakamoto living blocks from his door
He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.
Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
4 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.
Inventory of every Satoshi self-reference in the public record (Aug 2008 – Apr 2011): identity claims, dev disclosures, operational state, farewells, authenticity-disputed. Each row anchored.
Satoshi tells Finney that he cannot receive incoming connections from his location, revealing an operational constraint in the earliest days of the Bitcoin network.
CoinDesk published previously unseen Satoshi-Finney emails (obtained via widow Fran Finney): Finney's November 2008 scalability question and Satoshi's personal v0.1 release notice on January 8, 2009.