RIP Hal Finney

2 messages, 28 to 29 Aug 2014. Started by Matt Corallo.

Matt Corallo, Oliver Egginger

Matt Corallo 28 Aug 2014, 20:21 UTC permalink original

I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but Hal Finney passed away on Tuesday. While his body is being cryogenically preserved, we should all take a moment to thank Hal for everything he did for the cypherpunk community, specifically helping hugely in the early days of Bitcoin as well as PGP.

Matt

http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/082585.html

Oliver Egginger 29 Aug 2014, 09:29 UTC in reply to Matt Corallo permalink original

Am 28.08.2014 um 22:21 schrieb Matt Corallo:

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> I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but Hal Finney passed away
> on Tuesday.

No, I have not noticed yet. I did not know him personally, but it still makes me sad now. Last year he wrote on Bitcoin Talk in a thought-provoking way about his disease:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

I think a very inspiring Character for all of us. Not only because of his work.

- oliver