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This was my first thought at reading the headline before clicking through. Thank you for sharing the form from archive team. My first thought was Hal Finney, w
by strict9 7y ago
This was my first thought at reading the headline before clicking through. Thank you for sharing the form from archive team.
My first thought was Hal Finney, whose account I occasionally browse for a reminder of what twitter was like 10 years ago.
https://twitter.com/halfin https://twitter.com/halfin
>Harold Thomas Finney II (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann. In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games. He also was an early bitcoin contributor and received the first bitcoin transaction from bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto [1]
This is only one example. So many historical figures gone to free up some vanity names.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist...