Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
8 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Finding Satoshi (Tooley / Miele, April 2026) names Hal Finney and Len Sassaman as Bitcoin co-creators — Finney coded, Sassaman wrote the paper. Lopp and Back disputed the timing.
Hashcash's inventor and the first person Satoshi contacted. In April 2026 the NYT named him the closest stylometric match among 620 cryptography-mailing-list writers. The evidence, weighed.
Jameson Lopp argues Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi: on April 18, 2009, Finney was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara during a window of Satoshi network activity.
Harold Thomas Finney II (1956–2014): Caltech engineer, PGP 2.0 developer, Extropian, cryonics advocate, RPOW creator, first Bitcoin recipient and first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin.
March 25, 2014 Forbes feature by Andy Greenberg visiting Hal and Fran Finney in Temple City, examining the Hal-as-Satoshi geographic theory and publishing the April 18, 2009 race-day alibi photos.
Benjamin Wallace's Wired feature — an early major mainstream article on Bitcoin. Traces the whitepaper, mining boom, Mt. Gox hack, and growing pains, ending with Garzik's "We really don't care."
Reads the asymmetry between public attempts to identify Satoshi, the surviving material trail, and the persistent identification gap.
Recurring Satoshi candidates aligned across four independent layers — profile match, stylometric attribution, direct correspondence, and development environment.