The investigator, Jameson Lopp, compiled archived emails from 2010, data from a 10-mile race in California in 2009 and other evidence to make the argument.
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A recently resurfaced video shows Hal Finney discussing the possibility of zero-knowledge proofs at an annual cryptology conference in California some 25 years ago.
7742The Ordinals Protocol is generating a circular digital economy where assets are priced, bought and sold via Bitcoin.
5988If Adam Back and Hal Finney’s $10 million price prediction were to come true, the BTC market cap would be approximately $200 trillion.
20173To this day, the exact identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery. The chances that the real creator is described below are small.
32548Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter suspended a number of accounts including those controlled by high-profile journalists and social networking platform Mastodon.
21016Hal Finney, a computer scientist and the world’s first publicly known Bitcoiner, would have celebrated his 66th birthday Wednesday.
3051At the time the first BTC was sent, there wasn’t even a cash value associated with the crypto asset, compared to the more than $43,000 it is on Wednesday, Jan. 12.
9117Gerald Votta from Quantum Economics has a theory on the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto: the author of the first reply to the white paper itself.
19083Block after block, Bitcoin highlights the power of programmable monetary policy even as calls for its death grow louder.
20899The cypherpunk was one of the first people besides Satoshi Nakamoto to mine Bitcoin blocks, and reported many of the early bugs.
16154For all we don't know about Satoshi, we can tell he loved a touch of theatricality
12089While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent.
6678Sign your email with a private key, just like in the good old days.
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