Thank you, Hal. For the code, the intellectual rigor, and for quietly pushing forward one of the most important tools for freedom of our time. Your legacy lives on in every block, every node, and every person who can now choose permissionless systems. image

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Woulf have been a Monero bro...
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"If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy." — Hal Finney (Protecting privacy with electronic cash, 1993) #digitalcash #privacy #warning
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Another (Monero) quote from him ten days into the Bitcoin project: "Looking for ways to add more anonymity to Bitcoin"