*Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved.
I read that as: cryptopreserved.
I read it as AL Finney who played a character in Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus who had himself cryopreserved.
Re:Who I think Satoshi Nakamoto is
by drexlspivey on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:40PM
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So in all those discussions they had, he was talking to himself? Why would he do that? Also satoshi stopped writing in 2010 and Finney died in 2014
I have no idea what the conversations were like because I don't pay much attention to bitcoin (and less to the history) outside of HN but presenting things as dialogue is often more engaging and effective than monologue. Even in monologue exposition people often pose themselves rhetorical questions.
As an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_Concerning_the_Two_...
Finney gave the WSJ a bunch of private emails between him and Satoshi from 2009, linked below. I suppose it's theoretically possible Finney spent a lot of time faking this convincing set of emails, but absent that possibility, I think this seals the case that Satoshi was not Finney.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakam...
1) Finney lived in very close to Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (who happened to be unrelated to Bitcoin) - it's possible that he used his name.
2) Finney was the first person to perform a bitcoin transaction with Satoshi Nakamoto
3) Satoshi Nakamoto stopped writing messages after Finney died
There are a few other reasons I'm forgetting, but the coincidences are too many.
Interestingly, Hal Finney had himself cryopreserved. He may have invented Bitcoin, to get resurrected 150 years later...