It's been six years since Hal Finney passed away from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Finney is known as an early supporter of Bitcoin (BTC), and one of the first people to respond to Satoshi Nakamoto's initial post on the cypherpunk mailing list. In Bitcoin's earliest days, he was the only one who fully understood the possibilities of the technology, without being overtly skeptical about its prospects. Finney was one of the better-known cryptographers in the cypherpunk community even prior to his involvement with Bitcoin. Early in his career, he worked for PGP Corporation, which owned Pretty Good Privacy …

A tweet from 2010 may provide evidence that Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto. In a recent Cointelegrpah interview, Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010, said that Satoshi had no familiarity with the Mac ecosystem: “He didn't have a Macintosh. He didn't know how to build it for Mac.” Consequently, Satoshi asked him to develop a MacOS version of the Bitcoin client, which he eventually did. Both Finney & his wife owned a Mac in 2010 However, a 2010 tweet from Hal Finney tells us that both Finney and his wife owned a Mac: Hal Finney …

On May 20, reports indicated that Satoshi Nakamoto may have reactivated himself in order to move 50 Bitcoins (BTC) first mined back in February 2009. Upon further research, it was discovered that these were not just any Bitcoin. They are Bitcoin that Dr. Craig Wright himself has laid claim to. Transactions in question The transaction in question transferred 50 BTC to two addresses with a 40/10 split (this split is reminiscent of the famous first ever Bitcoin transfer, which sent 10 BTC from Satoshi to computer scientist, Hal Finney). The coins in today’s transaction were originally mined on February 9 …

Recent Bitcoin (BTC) transactions sent from an 11-year-old wallet were not those of famed computer scientist Hal Finney, as confirmed by his wife Fran. "Very odd," Fran Finney told Cointelegraph when questioned on the recent transactions sent from a Bitcoin wallet that, prior to today, sat untouched for more than a decade. "These were not coins my husband mined and we had nothing to do with this," she added. Hal Finney was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in 2009. His ALS progressed relentlessly, and in 2014 he was cryonically preserved. Finney's wife Fran works with the ALS Association …