WHY IS HAL FINNEY A CRYPTO LEGEND?
👊🏻 A true trailblazer. He went from a videogame developer to become the first person to run the Bitcoin software after Satoshi Nakamoto. Hal was one of the first members of the Cypherpunks and a key developer during the very first year of the Bitcoin life.
💰 A pioneer on bitcoin transactions, being the early person to receive bitcoin in a historic moment proving that the network really works.
🌐 Finney was a software engineer and a noted cryptographic activist. Creator of the first proof-of-work based system, the RPOW (Reusable Proof-of-Work), a significant step in the history of digital cash used to prevent cyber-attack and to verify Bitcoin transactions, such as insure blockchain consensus and enable the mining process.
💀 Curiosity fact: After dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2014, Hal was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
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