- Hal Finney received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto. Some people think that Hal could have created Satoshi Nakamoto as a nickname and sent it to himself to test the workability of the blockchain.
- The fact that Hal Finney died from ALS in 2014 lends weight to this perspective. Otherwise, how could Satoshi Nakamoto remain anonymous for so many years?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @adystar 13 Sep 2023 freebie
As long as the Bitcoin he owned doesn't move forever it's good enough for me
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 13 Sep 2023
Not really.
They were two different people, just read the early posts in bitcointalk.
There are just way too many messages, even at different time zones and they show different personalities.
It would be a colossal waste of time for SN, and he was known for exactly the opposite. He even released Bitcoin with the most liberal license because he said that using any other more restrictive one would just lead to some people replicating it and basically duplicating work.
Hal just happened to be in the right place at the right time to meet SN.
SN remains anonymous because he is a smart person and made sure to have privacy all the time. I mean, these guys are expert cryptographers, not a random dude.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 13 Sep 2023
100%
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 13 Sep 2023
I don't think Hal was Satoshi. The interactions just don't read to me like one person trying to spoof and obscure. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUhY2xKDLQSnxoePE1R94NdDTjuNuYgKv2cXUdW9gxGQL - search for "Hal Finney".
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13 Sep 2023
Yes.
Can we get over with this question who was SN?
Is done, is over. Forget it.
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24 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 13 Sep 2023
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