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Cryonics Magazine's profile of Hal Finney, based on interviews with his wife Fran — Caltech, his PGP Corporation career, his excitement over Bitcoin, his ALS diagnosis and his Alcor cryopreservation.
Fran Finney: wife of Hal Finney (the first known person other than Satoshi to run Bitcoin). She witnessed Bitcoin's earliest moments, cared for Hal through ALS, and became the keeper of his legacy.
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.
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.
Replying to Hal's 2009 tweet, Fran Finney writes that he posted it 17 days after his ALS diagnosis, and that a half marathon on September 6, 2009, was his last real run.
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.
Two months after his ALS diagnosis, Finney writes that over 90% of ALS patients choose to die rather than go on a ventilator, and that when the time comes he hopes to choose life.
Two months after his ALS diagnosis, Hal Finney wrote on LessWrong that over 90% of patients choose death over a ventilator, and that he hoped to choose life and still write code.
Seventeen days after his ALS diagnosis, Hal Finney tweets that he has just got back from an 11-mile run and treasures each one now.