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So long, exceptional person.

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


Hal was a central figure of modern cryptography and will be remembered forever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(cypherpunk) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(cypherpunk))

I hope some day in the future there be a cure for ALS and a way to revive you Hal. RIP o/

Great man with an inspirational story. It is good to think he might come back to us someday.

Sad to hear. Hal did great work his entire career, and was one of the earliest bitcoin adopters: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

RIP Hal.  :(

Sad news...

Being quite new to BTC didn't know Hal very well, but remembered this post:

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

RIP

He last logged on to bitcointalk.org on April 9th, 2014.  I wonder what was going through his mind between then and now.  His last post:
In response to the question "Old people, how did you protect purchases before widespread use of credit cards?"

Long live his legacy.

RIP Hal.  You will be remembered.

RIP.

They say only the good die young. He was a very good man. Bitcoin won't be the same without him. With deep regret I wish peace of spirit and condolences to his family.

RIP Hal and thanks for helping pioneer this great experiment.   

RIP.

He will be remembered. I offer my prayer for peace and rest to his family at this sad time.

RIP

RIP Hal. You'll be remembered.

The world was made a better place thanks to Hal Finney's efforts.

I hope his family knows how much this community appreciates him.

Will they have a service even if he is being preserved?

If so, an address to send flowers would be good.

RIP.  That is crazy he went under cryo.  Do you know how much they have to pay up front for that?  Easily $500,000. 

Hope one day in the future he gets thawed back to live and sees what btc has become.

Rest in peace Hal Finney. You and your work will always be remembered.

Rest in peace, and my condolences to the family.

Cool as fuck that he's being cryogenically preserved. RIP Mr Finney, hopefully we'll see you soon.

RIP.

(Is it terrible that I'm now wondering whether Satoshi will briefly come out of hiding to pay his respects? :-\)

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May I suggest a donation (http://www.alsa.org/) in honor of Hal?

RIP Hal. Looking forward to your further contributions to cryptocurrency once you wake up healthy and rested.

cool guy, RIP man.

Rest in peace. We should put his name to a BTC unit, like Satoshi.

To Hal!

Very sad day indeed.. I just thought about him the other day. I wonder why they went the cryogenics route... I hope it works for them. I agree, we should call the next decimal a finney or a Hal, but Finney has a better ring to it..

RIP Hal.  One of the great ones.

Hope to see you again after your cryo-nap. Thaw well my friend!

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

Rest in peace Hal
He will always be remembered.
My Condolences to his wife and family.

RIP, he has done much contribution to cryptocurrency

RIP

RIP Hal.

 :'( :'( :'(

~Bruno Kucinskas

He was cryopreserved at Alcor.  Whole-body is around $200k and neuro (just your head) is around $80k.

You pay with insurance (usually) so you don't need to come up with that money in a lump sum.

Go to ALCOR.org to read more about it, and how much it costs. A lot of technically knowledgable people are involved - including Ralph Merlke. (Look up Merlke trees in bitcoin etc)


RIP. We'll see ya in the future

RIP bud.

Rest in cryo.

He has been a part of a great revolution,

He has left when the whole world is becoming aware of ALS with ice bucket,

May he Rest in peace.

One day his prediction of 10 million per bitcoin will become true, That day the whole world will know about him and he will live forever in History.

This brought tears to my eyes. Rest in peace Hal.

Forever remembered.

Rest in peace Hal.  :'(

Rest in peace Hal.

Your works and ideas will be remebered forever.

RIP Hal.
You will go down in history as a great man that helped the world for the better.

Rest in Peace  Hal Finney

May your soul rest in peace!

Enjoy your Cryo Sleep Hal.

I hope the world is a Bitcoin one when you wake up :)

This is crazy, cryogenized? Does that even exist? They can cryogenize someone but we dont have the knowledge to wake them up? how does this work?

I wonder if a cryocoin will appear now  ::)

RIP anyway

RIP Hal Finney, at least for the time being.


It's still theoretical as no one has been successfully revived after being frozen yet.  With some conditions, if you get medical attention quickly enough, you can technically be dead for a few minutes and still be "brought back", but if too much time passes, it can cause brain damage.  The assumption is that if you freeze the body and prevent it from decaying, it should mean you can be revived in future when they've found a cure for your illness.  But it sounds like this particular implementation of cryogenics adds the complication of having to remove all the chemicals from the body that they've pumped into it to prevent the freezing itself causing damage.  I'm assuming that a complete blood transfusion would then be needed and there are probably all sorts of other considerations that would have to be made as well.

In a way it does sound a bit far-fetched, but then again, we are posting on a forum about Bitcoin, so who knows what's possible in future.

It would be something to hear of him being revived/cured in the future.  I await the good news. :)

RIP Hal Finney, you were a great man.

Teach angels how to compile a windows wallet.

He will indeed be remembered...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/

Rest in peace.

Even if the technology can not revive him in the future, he will be remembered in the history book.

RIP Hal Finney  :'(  :'(  :'(

You will be missed

Terribly sorry to see that Hal's life has come to an end, but I am glad to hear he elected cryo-preservation.  I hope he rests in peace for awhile and that technology one day advances to the point that the damage to his body from the cryopreservation process can be fixed and he can be revived.  It's worth mentioning that if technology actually advances to that point, curing many of the diseases we know today would probably be trivial, as would defeating aging.  I see that Finney's wife is also an Alcor member.  Here's hoping that in a future age they are able to rejoin each other for many centuries of healthy living and enjoyment.

Maybe in the decades to come the wealth generated from the Bitcoin revolution will have a role to play in the research that could one day revive Hal Finney.

A contributor to bitcoin and pioneer of crypticurrencies may your soul rest in peace and lord gives strength to your family.

Rest in peace great man.

Rest in peace.

Condolences to his family and friends, he was truly part of crypto community.

Only knew him from his story on this forum , still, when I read that he passed away my heart gave a jump.

I saw the picture of him and his wife on Coindesk. Such a tragedy. Thanks for your contribution to Bitcoin and rest in peace Hal.

RIP.

He sure will be rememberd.

RIP hal!

Rest in Peace, Hal.
That man contributed a lot to modern cryptography
Notable, he died from ALS these days when so many people become aware of this disease.
Condolences to his family..

I was very surprised and sad to learn of this news and want to give my sincerest condolences to all his friends and family for their loss, he will very missed.

He is not "100% actually deceased", that is great news that there is a chance of future recovery. What an amazing world we live in.
Nap in peace, Hal.

Rest in peace Hal, but I will wait your return.

Rest in peace.

No he is very dead :(
I personally find it offensive to say something like this.

His state is unknown.  He is either in a very unusual type of coma, or he is dead.  People are certainly entitled to differing opinions on the subject.  My fond hope is that some day it will be demonstrated that he was not in fact dead.

Sad news indeed and condolences to his family.

It is an amazing and brave decision to be cryogenically preserved I think.

Everyone should acknowledge that Hal was most proud of his work on PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy - which he is perhaps less well known for.

~ Its quite remarkable that PGP has existed for so long and yet most governments and/or large corporations don't even bother to encrypt sensitive communications.

I never communicated with Hal, but I guess he read some or my early rambling posts. I'll leave this in his honor...

~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3pdDKCIV7Y - the ending of A Scanner Darkly, from a novel by Philip K. Dick

Maybe Hal will get to read this board again someday ?

RIP   :'(

P.S. If we ever hear that Dorian decides to get frozen as well, where do we sign up for this ?   8)

CryptogenicBullion FTW !?!

A lot of people in the infosec/netsec scene acknowledge PGP.   What makes you think many governments/large corporations don't use that?   

alcor.org

cryonics.org

Not for the faint of heart, nor for anyone who expects all the research to have been done and the answers to be handed to them on a silver platter.

Some do, although it is still used much less frequently than it should be within said organizations and institutions.

Right... and who says that the NSA has not poisoned that project as well in some way shape or form?  I suppose because it is open source but still...   Projects/community needs to re-evaluate security and crypto as a whole.

RIP. I greatly enjoyed his post here about coping with late stages of ALS; it was inspiring. I applaud him for his contributions to cryptography and bitcoin and I hope he is remembered fondly.

Rest In Peace
Thanks Hal, for being such an inspiration

Rest in peace Hal, we love you.