In this 1993 mailing list exchange you can find Szabo talking about Hal Finney in good terms in reference to 'digital cash':
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlAlso in this forbes interview with Finney, I get the impression he was rather close to Nakamoto and he indeed was instrumental in the improvement of the early bitcoin client:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi-nakamotos-neighbor-the-bitcoin-ghostwriter-who-wasnt/Also Finney was the the first one to answer to Nakamoto here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.htmlIt just seems to me that both Finney and "nakamoto" and Finney and Nick Szabo (Nicholas J. Szabo) were really close.
I came up with 'Nicholas J. Szabo' through his tenure at George Washington University. (e.g.
https://www.idmarch.org/document/The%20Spirit%20of%20the%20Laws/doyl)
A plausible candidate for this is:
http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=8&searchform=&qc=Ithaca&qf=Nicholas&qmi=J&qn=Szabo&qs=NYWhich would make him 57, roughly same age as finney. there seems to be two more people in that address: another nicholas szabo aged 82 and a maria k szabo aged 78. so perhaps he just used his parents address...