Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)

[NeironixNV]

An impressive story, thanks for the work done, we hope it was not in vain

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[ttcsalam]

Many thanks to you for discussing such a beautiful topic. Have presented the information in a simple way. Many have been beautiful.

[dimastegar]

Glad to hear your story. Very inspiring and many lessons that we can learn from your story. You are a lucky person to get to know Bitcoin at the very beginning of its appearance. May you always be given health until this moment. We crypto users are also pleased with the growing Bitcoin, day by day. Bitcoin adoption throughout the world is increasing, and it is only necessary to wait for time until Bitcoin is used by the majority of people in the world as the best alternative transaction.

[GrowersClub]

We're honored to be in the ranks of this forum and send nothing but love and gratitude to Hal for what he helped create. Thank you Hal.

[Dabs]

I've been around to have read this when it first came out, all the way to when he got into cryo / frozen thing. His heirs should be set for life if they just manage the coins properly, or at least add to what they should be otherwise doing normally without it; even if they get it all out now, keep it as fiat with no interest, they'd all have enough for the next 20 to 30 years. If they invest it conservatively, it should last forever.

[marcus_of_augustus]

I've been around to have read this when it first came out, all the way to when he got into cryo / frozen thing. His heirs should be set for life if they just manage the coins properly, or at least add to what they should be otherwise doing normally without it; even if they get it all out now, keep it as fiat with no interest, they'd all have enough for the next 20 to 30 years. If they invest it conservatively, it should last forever.

Hal is a legend.

I was always curious too if he might have stashed some keys for his own future upon a possible revival? And specifically how he would have gone about that.

[adaseb]

Didn't some of Hal's family members sell some of his coins last year? I don't remember the details but an address that was used in the first few BTC transactions ever ( sometime in 2009) made a transaction to an exchange sometime in 2018.

I don't have time now to do the analysis but from what I remember it was a small sum. Will try and search for the thread, it was posted somewhere in this section.

At first people were freaking out that he is alive but then we realized that it must be some of his family members.

[bitcampaign]

I learned a lot from here, this story is very inspiring and I do it in my life too, sometimes maybe a lot of people out there forget to teach people nearby whether it's children or their families about bitcoin and crypto currencies, at least when we leave them someday they are able to access the inheritance that we hold and are not really carried away by us

[Dabs]

There was an estimate in the low 4 figures in BTC. So anywhere from a thousand to a few thousand BTC. In USD, that would be between $9m to $18m today. If the family cashed it all out in 2018, even at $5k, that would imply at least $5m USD.

If that were all invested and the family stuck to a 4% SWR, that means $200k per year and it would last 30 years. If they didn't need the money, then it would last forever.

He said he mined solo a few blocks a day. If he mined 10 blocks a day for 10 days, that's 5000 BTC. We don't know the exact numbers, but the other guys were able to buy pizza for 10k BTC.

[vision3001]

Dedicating the beauty of 2020 to Hal Finney:

2020 is a beautiful number because:
o 2020 = 2^2 * 5 * 101
o 2020 = 16^2 + 42^2
o 2020 = 24^2 + 38^2
o 2020 = 2^11 - 28
o 2020 = 10 x 9 x 8 + (7 + 6) x 5 x 4 x (3 + 2) x 1 [Acknowledgement: Mikko / Finland]
o 2020 = (1 + 1) × (11111 − 1)/11 [Ack/start: Prof Taneja]
o 2020 = 2 × (2 × (222 + 22) − 2)
o 2020 = 3 + (3 + 3) × (333 + 3) + 3/3
o 2020 = 4 + (4 + 4) × (44 − 4)
o 2020 = 55 + 55 × (5 − 5 × 5) − 5
o 2020 = (6 − 6/6 )× ((6 + 6)/6 + 6 × 66 + 6)
o 2020 = 77/7 + 7 × (7 × (7 × 7 − 7) − 7)
o 2020 = (8 × (8 × 8 × 8 − + × 8/(8 +
o 2020 = (9 + 9) × (99/9 + 999)/9 = 2020 [Ack/end: Prof Taneja]
o 2020 = ((10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x6)/5+(4 x 3))/(2+1) [Ack: Chris & Colin)
o Q(-2020^0.5) = 8 [relating to ring of integers]

For those of us who are nuts about 2020, check out Prof Taneja's paper titled "2020 in Numbers: Mathematical Style" here: http://[Suspicious link removed]/20p2h

Blessed and Happy New Year to all!

[WRAOUF]

Hal Finney is a Bitcoin leyend. May he resurrect in the future with a bioengineered, tall, strong body in the future. If cryogenics is a success in a couple of decades (or centuries.. or thousands of years) I wonder how high the BTC will be by then. If Hal is still holding his coins, he will be the richest man on earth.

[BeManga]

this one of a good story i read so far about crypto here in bitcointalk
im already sick of reading about Craig wright story
its just good to see this kind of story from time to time.

[KieranG]

Finally came back to my account I created years back to read about Hal, Satoshi and learn about Cryptography and it's beginnings from when I joined the "space", just to comment here and say I'm glad he found Satoshi and was able to have a say in it's foundations.

From what I can find, read about and learn about Hal he was a clever and technology pushing guy.

"Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation."

I love this sentence and fully feel that the team or project that can tap into this will be a phenomenal asset to blockchain protocols forevermore.

Rest up Hal, cheers for all the work.

[Nhor1011]

Very interesting and encouraging story i never heard or even read before,just now when i suddenly read with a little bit curious about the subject. Very inspiring story in crypto space specially in bitcoin. I think,i feel like i am in the beginning of bitcoin although it was already 12years past if i'm not mistaken when bitcoin was created by Satoshi nakamoto. This story tells us how great and valuable the bitcoin now.

[JayJuanGee]

Who is login in with your account ? 2017 last seen ?

Of course, that login would not have been the actual real life Hal..  There does not seem to be any dispute that Hal died in August 2014, which would have been within the same month of any last known posts from him through the account linked to OP of this thread and about a year and a half or so after posting OP..   

I recall hearing that there had been some activity from Hal's account or something like that, and the forum had locked/or blocked Hal's account sometime after there had been activity on the account.. and maybe that was the March 2017 - or so activity that shows up on the account?  I cannot recall the details at this time, as I type - or maybe I am getting him mixed up with some other member.. Sometimes forum accounts do get hacked into, too.

[Vlad2Vlad]

Who is login in with your account ? 2017 last seen ?

Of course, that login would not have been the actual real life Hal..  There does not seem to be any dispute that Hal died in August 2014, which would have been within the same month of any last known posts from him through the account linked to OP of this thread and about a year and a half or so after posting OP..   

I recall hearing that there had been some activity from Hal's account or something like that, and the forum had locked/or blocked Hal's account sometime after there had been activity on the account.. and maybe that was the March 2017 - or so activity that shows up on the account?  I cannot recall the details at this time, as I type - or maybe I am getting him mixed up with some other member.. Sometimes forum accounts do get hacked into, too.

Most likely his son, Jason. 

Heads up!!! 

[anunnaki1202]

I do believe everything is a set up a nice lie ... ladies and gentlemans.  

You can believe everything you read but the truth is other.

Cannot even imagine what money make a human do.


 

[CoinDogg]

Such a brilliant mind, rest in peace.

Hal Finney (4 May 1956 - 28 August 2014)
First Bitcoin recipient - 1HLoD9E4SDFFPDiYfNYnkBLQ85Y51J3Zb1

[Lorence.xD]

Documentary worthy story in my opinion, especially he was a member of Cypherphunks in which some of its members were the suspected Cicada Testmaster. ALS is really something, brilliant minds taken away by this disease.

[Sapphire915]

Been trying to find an interesting topic here, when this thread captured my eyes. Suddenly, it really got me. I was so honored I found this to read on. Hal Finney's story is really inspiring. Thank you so much for making out this thread, that added an important knowledge to me today. You are a Legend, indeed.