Finney had built RPOW before Bitcoin existed, ran the second node, and kept contributing from a wheelchair using eye-tracking software after losing the use of his hands. He wrote about Bitcoin's prospects with more caution than most of its advocates.
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Hal Finney dies
The cryptographer who received the first bitcoin transaction died of ALS at 58.
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