Although Hal Finney died in 2014, in the middle of last year someone asked him for 100,000 bitcoins and called him “Nakamo Satoshi”: Story Continues The address listed there received .115 BTC ...

Software developer Hal Finney was a privacy activist — he was a key developer of PGP, the world’s most-used encryption program for email, and he made crucial refinements to bitcoin digital ...

an image retweeted by cryptographer Adam Back. Before his diagnosis, Finney was training to run a full marathon. Photo of Hal running, 1980's, demonstrating his characteristic enthusiasm and lust ...

NEW YORK — Hal Finney, a cryptographer and one of the earliest users and developers of the virtual currency Bitcoin, died Thursday in Phoenix. He was 58. Mr. Finney had been paralyzed by ...

Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Decades before revelations of pervasive civilian surveillance by the US National Security Agency shook the online ...