On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 22:02:16 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/24/2017 7:33 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
(The first person to receive
Bitcoin was Hal Finney, a prominent member of both the
extropians and cypherpunks lists).
Hal was in the dorm room next to mine when I was a freshman. He
was one of the smartest people I've ever known, by a wide
margin. Also one of the nicest.
I've always suspected Hal of being Satoshi :-) A grand joke
like that is something he'd do.
Some people reasonably well placed to have an idea think he was
part of the group mind that Satoshi became...
I dug out the archives recently for both mailing lists. Amazing
the high level of discussion back then, and how those fringe
ideas became mainstream. It took a while though!
