Редактирование: Hal Finney

[[File:Hal Finney.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hal Finney]]
'''Harold Thomas Finney II''' (May 4, 1956 – [[legal death]] August 28, 2014) was an American computer scientist. A cryptographer, he was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. In his early career, Finney was credited as lead developer on several console games. He also was an early [[Cryonics and cryptocurrencies|bitcoin]] contributor and received the first bitcoin transaction from bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

Finney had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2009.<ref>[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bshZiaLefDejvPKuS/dying-outside Dying Outside]. Hal Finney. ''LessWrong''. October 5, 2009</ref> In August 2014, he was [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by the [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]], having been a member for over 20 years.<ref name="Case summary">[https://www.alcor.org/library/complete-list-of-alcor-cryopreservations/case-summary-a-1436/ Case Summary: Hal Finney]. alcor.org</ref> His Alcor identifier is '''A-1436'''.<ref name="Case summary" /> The [[Hal Finney Cryonics Research Fund]] is named in his honor.

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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140320101033/http://finney.org/~hal/ Personal website] (an archived page)
* [https://www.alcor.org/library/complete-list-of-alcor-cryopreservations/case-summary-a-1436/ Case summary]
* [https://twitter.com/halfin Twitter profile]
* Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist) Hal Finney (computer scientist)]
* [https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/ Bitcoin's Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future]. Andy Greenberg. ''Wired''. August 28, 2014

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