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15 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
Nine pages posted to a mailing list on October 31, 2008, met with two days of silence and then doubts about scale. The record of Bitcoin's first public appearance and the few experts who engaged.
Hayek's 1976 competing-currencies case, the 1995 Extropian 'Hayeks' thought-experiment, and Bitcoin's 2009 non-state issuance — one ideological lineage with bounded direct-influence claims.
On the public record, Satoshi developed Bitcoin on Windows exclusively for 27 months (design + release + early period); Linux engagement first appears as reactive support for Malmi's port.
b-money is whitepaper reference [1], his Crypto++ shipped inside Bitcoin v0.1, and he was the second person Satoshi contacted. The evidence for Wei Dai as Satoshi, weighed.
He built RPOW, received the first Bitcoin transaction, and lived blocks from Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence for Hal Finney as Satoshi, weighed.
Recurring Satoshi candidates aligned across four independent layers — profile match, stylometric attribution, direct correspondence, and development environment.
Editorial reading of Satoshi's relationship to cypherpunk, from three primary observations: he didn't know b-money, Wei Dai testified Satoshi was "not previously active," alignment with Hughes 1993.
Hal Finney's private email to Satoshi during pre-release code review, asking foundational scalability questions: 'How large do you envision it becoming? Tens of nodes? Thousands? Millions?'
The first person-to-person Bitcoin transaction in history. Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to Hal Finney in Block 170, confirming that Bitcoin's peer-to-peer electronic cash system worked as designed.
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.
The first known tweet about Bitcoin. Hal Finney posted 'Running bitcoin' on the day Bitcoin v0.1 was released (January 10/11, 2009). He was the first known person other than Satoshi to run it.
Hal Finney's October 2009 LessWrong essay, two months after his ALS diagnosis. He commits to continuing open-source contribution from an immobile body, kept until his August 2014 death.
Nick Szabo's May 2011 blog post on why digital cash took thirteen years between bit gold (1998) and Bitcoin (2009). Names libtech as the private list where bit gold and b-money developed in parallel.
Hal Finney, the first known person besides Satoshi to run Bitcoin and the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, passes away from ALS at the age of 58.
Hal Finney's famous retrospective on his early involvement with Bitcoin, his interactions with Satoshi, and his battle with ALS. One of the most celebrated posts in Bitcoin history.