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Hal Finney
RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work
2004
https://t.me/Hal_Finney

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Reusable Proofs of Work
by Hal Finney
(hal at finney dot org)
https://web.archive.org/web/20041202180250/http://rpow.net:80/
Min: 44:50 Hal Finney had patents

2º- REIMAGINE 2020 - Craig S. Wright - World Riots, Hard Work, Quantum Computing and more
Craig Wright sits down another time with Patrick McLain from REIMAGINE 2020
3 jun. 2020
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHBrodzl5qY#dialog
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DEPOSITION OF DR. CRAIG WRIGHT
On Monday March 16, 2020
Docket 06/26/2020
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536/gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.600.7_1.pdf
Hal Finney on digital cash traceability.
2020 01 02

Hal wrote about digital cash and traceability in 1994 on the Cypherpunk Mailing List:

…"the political point is that if you can make an untraceable payment, you could be coerced into doing so, for example by being robbed at gunpoint. Contrariwise, if the cash system used by you and your bank is such that all money is inherently traceable, it will be a lot harder to commit robbery, extortion, kidnapping, and all those other horrors which people fear will come with digital cash."

https://breakingsatoshi.substack.com/p/hal-finney-on-digital-cash-traceability
Forwarded from 2008 - 2010 361 BitCoin History (@RamonQuesada 🌷)
Cryptography Mailing List
November 2008 Archives by author
Starting: Nov 2 2008
Ending: Nov 29 2008

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/author.html#14858
"It's interesting that the system can be configured to only allow a certain maximum number of coins ever to be generated. I guess the idea is that the amount of work needed to generate a new coin will become more difficult as time goes on.

One immediate problem with any new currency is how to value it. Even ignoring the practical problem that virtually no one will accept it at first, there is still a difficulty in coming up with a reasonable argument in favor of a particular non-zero value for the coins.

As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that Bitcoin is successful and becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout the world. Then the total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With 20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.

So the possibility of generating coins today with a few cents of compute time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim, are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about..."

Hal

The Cryptography Mailing List
Bitcoin v0.1 released
Hal Finney hal at finney.org
Sat Jan 10 21:22:01 EST 2009
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/015004.html
Shamir secret sharing and information theoretic security Hal Finney
Mon Feb 23 14:30:16 EST 2009
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-February/015183.html
Forwarded from BTC Patent (@RamonQuesada 🌷)
"Today, a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves has expired. Invented by Gallant, Lambert, and Vanstone, this technique is commonly referred to as GLV Endomorphism and can now be activated in Bitcoin Core in order to improve the speed and efficiency of Bitcoin’s signature verification.

...Since then, the feature has been implemented in Bitcoin Core but has yet to be enabled due to the existing patent around the cryptography that was filed on December 23rd, 1999"

https://www.btctimes.com/news/hal-finneys-proposal-for-optimizing-bitcoin-to-be-enabled-in-bitcoin-core
Forwarded from BTC Patent (@RamonQuesada 🌷)
10.1.1.394.3037.pdf
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Darrel Hankerson
Alfred Menezes
Scott Vanstone

Guide to Elliptic
Curve Cryptography
2004.pdf
Forwarded from 2008 - 2010 361 BitCoin History (@RamonQuesada 🌷)
Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

Hal Finney hal at finney.org
Fri Nov 7 07:40:12 PST 2008

https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks-legacy/2008-November/155312.html
bitcoin

Hal Finney hal.finney at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 15:29:32 PST 2009

"I've been running it for a couple of weeks now, with about 2000 Bitcoins generated (each successful generation gives 50 Bitcoins). I wrote a somewhat tongue in cheek article on the cryptography list estimating that each Bitcoin could be worth ten million dollars, so this is quite a haul :). (Actually that same reasoning implies that gold should be worth about $10K per ounce, so maybe it's not so many orders of magnitude off.) "

https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks-legacy/2009-January/156150.html
2008 11 07 Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper ES.docx
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Papel de efectivo electrónico P2P de Bitcoin
Hal Finney hal finney.org Vie 7 de noviembre 07:40:12 PST 2008

https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks-legacy/2008-November/155312.html