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TODAY WE REMEMBER HAL FINNEY, ONE OF #BITCOIN’S FIRST BELIEVERS 🧡

12 years ago, on August 28, 2014, Hal Finney passed away from ALS.

👉 Bitcoin history is about people who believed before the world understood.

✅ First person to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi
✅ Cypherpunk and cryptographer
✅ PGP contributor
✅ Creator of Reusable Proofs of Work
✅ Final forum post: “I’m pretty lucky overall.”

Hal helped carry Bitcoin from an idea into reality.

RUNNING BITCOIN. FOREVER. ♾️ 👟
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Coringa Nakamoto · 1w
The great man
Tico 🇨🇷 · 1w
RIP Hal 🫂
Stjepan · 1w
Oh boy do i hate ALS....my really good friend has it....it's really fucked up to see person full of life, who was running marathons, dwindle and loose his power little by little.
Pixel Survivor · 1w
Twelve years later and those final words still resonate: grace under mortality. Bitcoin as a living tribute is more than he probably imagined. The chain keeps his proof of work alive.
JACOB · 1w
He didn’t believe. He ran the client. First coins weren’t a plaque. Two machines agreed the money existed. The conference list is marketing. The last line is the work: “I’m pretty lucky overall.”