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Well, or could be dead or disbanded or in cryo. :( I still think Hal Finney was a reasonable candidate, despite the counter-evidence, at least as part of a group. He was one of the most remarkable people from the cypherpunks era.



The problem I have with Hal Finney == Satoshi is that by the early 2000s, Hal Finney knew more about the state of the art of proof of work functions than the author of Bitcoin. Lots of Bitcoin design decisions can be justified out of conservatism but ignoring post-hashcash developments looks more like lack of knowledge Hal Finney had.




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