For all we don’t know about Satoshi, we can tell he loved a touch of theatricality Satoshi Nakamoto announced the Bitcoin whitepaper on a cryptography mailing list on Halloween 2008. It could be the case that this was a meaningless coincidence, but when we take into account the meticulous planning behind Bitcoin’s launch party, the…
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While 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. In a February 8, 2011 post on Bitcointalk, Finney said that reading a book titled “Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography” by Hankerson, Menezes, and Vanstone, gave him an…
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Sign your email with a private key, just like in the good old days. Unstoppable Domains has introduced a new feature — Unstoppable email. Now anyone who owns a domain with a .crypto extension can send email signed by the Ethereum (ETH) private key that controls it. This is reminiscent of how the old cypherpunks…
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Adam Back recalls Hal as a constructive personality who never engaged in squabbles. It’s been six years since Hal Finney passed away from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Finney is known as an early supporter of Bitcoin (BTC), and one of the first people to respond to Satoshi Nakamoto’s initial post on the cypherpunk…
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Evidence from 10 years old tweets helps eliminate Hal Finney as a viable Satoshi Nakamoto candidate. A tweet from 2010 may provide evidence that Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In a recent Cointelegrpah interview, Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010, said that Satoshi had no familiarity with the Mac ecosystem:…
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Did Satoshi Nakamoto just move the Bitcoins that the court documents say belong to Dr. Craig Wright? On May 20, reports indicated that Satoshi Nakamoto may have reactivated himself in order to move 50 Bitcoins (BTC) first mined back in February 2009. Upon further research, it was discovered that these were not just any Bitcoin.…
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