A BITCOIN CREATOR HAS DIED AND HE HOPES TO SEE YOU IN THE FUTURE

Everybody wants to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, but why? After all, 70%, if not more, of all bitcoin code has been re-written since his first version of Bitcoin came online. Moreover, many of the people who helped Satoshi re-write the code have been open about their contribution. And in the spirit of open-source, all these individuals are ‘the creator of bitcoin.’
That’s the ‘commons approach’ to incorporation. If you look at Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer corporation, then its earliest adopters are co-founders in a way. If Bitcoin were a traditional company, they’d certainly be C-Level executives.
In this view, Bitcoin lost one of its co-founders, one of its C-Level executives, yesterday. His name is Hal Finney. And when I write, ‘is,’ I mean it…Hal has been cryopreserved. He looks forward to returning to an Earth sometime in the future, when there has been a cure for ALS.
People already associate the crypto-equity bitcoin with the future. That association would be fair. Hal is the perfect example of this.
After a long life on the front lines of cryptography and PGP, Hal Finney succumbed to ALS yesterday morning, August 28th, 2014. The end of his 5-year battle with the disease marked the beginning of a new journey for the cypherpunk. Hal was cryopreserved after doctors pronounced him clinically dead. But all this not before a historical lifetime had come to an end.

This post was published at Dollar Vigilante on 2014/8/29.