La ELA es una enfermedad que ataca las motoneuronas, que son las neuronas que conducen las señales desde el cerebro hacia los músculos. Inicialmente se manifiesta como debilidad, la cual progresa gradualmente hacia la parálisis. Por lo general, es mortal en 2 a 5 años. Al principio, mis síntomas eran leves y podía seguir trabajando, pero debido a la fatiga y a que se me hacía casi imposible hablar, me vi obligado a retirarme a principios de 2011. Desde entonces, la enfermedad ha continuado su inexorable progresión.

Hoy me encuentro casi totalmente paralizado. Me alimento por medio de una sonda, y mi respiración es asistida a través de un tubo. Uso la computadora gracias a un sistema de rastreo ocular que además cuenta con un sintetizador de voz. Por lo tanto, esta es mi voz. Paso todo el día en mi silla de ruedas eléctrica, y gracias a una interfaz que he desarrollado utilizando una placa Arduino, puedo ajustar la posición de mi silla de ruedas con sólo mover mis ojos.

muy lentamente, unas 50 veces más lento de lo que solía hacerlo. Pero sigo siendo un amante de la programación y, además, esta actividad me ayuda a plantearme nuevas metas.

Actualmente estoy trabajando en algo que me sugirió Mike Hearn: utilizar las funciones de seguridad de los procesadores modernos, diseñados para soportar “Trusted Computing”, para robustecer las carteras Bitcoin. El producto ya está casi listo para su lanzamiento.

Por supuesto, las oscilaciones del precio del bitcoin me resultan entretenidas. Al fin y al cabo, tengo ahorros en juego, aunque a decir verdad los bitcoins que he acumulado se los debo a la suerte más que al mérito.

Esa es mi historia. Me considero afortunado: a pesar de la ELA, mi vida es muy satisfactoria. Pero mi expectativa de vida es limitada. Esas discusiones que he leído en el foro acerca de los mecanismos para dejar bitcoins como herencia tienen para mí un interés más que académico. Mi hijo y mi hija son diestros con la tecnología, y ahora tienen toda la información que necesitan para resguardar sus bitcoins. Me siento muy bien con mi legado.

Hal Finney

13 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto sent Hal Finney 10 bitcoins in Bitcoin’s first transaction ever - CoinGeek

via coingeek.com

"Prof Wrightson knew of Wei Dai, and pointed me towards a paper titled “Knowledge-Based Communication Processes in Building Design” that he knew of because of his work in machine learning. Both Adam Back and Prof Wrightson directed me to Wei Dai. 戴维 turned out to be another cypherpunk, and he was an incredibly helpful one. I used some of his code in the original release of Bitcoin — with his permission. Andreas Furche knew of Hal Finney and Adam Back. So I emailed people. I was researching in 2005, and came to the conclusion that I could build something. By 2007, I was ready to start."

Fully Peer-to-Peer
By Craig Wright
06 Jun 2019
https://craigwright.net/blog/law-regulation/fully-peer-to-peer/

"Desayuno - Webinar El libro blanco del Bitcoin -3ª parte-"
Organizado por el Colegio de Economistas de Valencia (COEV)
9 de Marzo del 2022
https://youtu.be/UgDuFL8fUhI

"What was worse was listening to Hal when he explained over and over how Bitcoin wouldn’t work. He was a far better coder than I was, and had been involved in the industry much longer. I believed in my idea, but always thought that he was focused on a different goal.
Hal was similar to people such as Wei who sought a completely different system. They looked at building systems without government and without corporations...."

https://medium.com/@craig_10243/the-myth-of-forks-be04f8e5fe4a

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1/ Today is Hal Finney's birthday.

This thread gives a unique peek into his personal life, ideals, and perpetual optimism, even against certain death.

This content was originally published by Alcor, a cryopreservation company.

A must read👇

- Dan Held

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1521911557176934400

March 16, 2012,

I recently found the 0.1 source code on one of my computers. I can send it if you want it, but I'm pretty severely disabled these days, so it may take me a while to respond.
Hal Finney
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68121.0

Craig Wright Full Testimony: Hodlonaut v Craig Wright - Day 3
5275 visualizaciones 14 sept 2022 This is the full video from Craig Wright's testimony on day 3 of the Hodlonaut v Craig Wright trial on September 14th, 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zkweFcpQMs

Unfortunately, this was a reason that I allowed others to convince me to impose TEMPORARY limits.

A bunch of small Txs came through, but at £0.25 a coin, the costs scared nodes off.

We all make mistakes. I should not have listened in 2010 and should have been confident

https://twitter.com/Dr_CSWright/status/1600023442446725120?t=smgre6pWj3gBLX9B8ZFQkQ&s=19

Satoshi didn't have a 1MB limit in it. The limit was originally Hal Finney's idea.  Both Satoshi and I objected that it wouldn't scale at 1MB.  Hal was concerned about a potential DoS attack though, and after discussion, Satoshi agreed.  The 1MB limit was there by the time Bitcoin launched.  But all 3 of us agreed that 1MB had to be temporary because it would never scale."

Re: Permanently keeping the 1MB (anti-spam) restriction is a great idea ...
February 07, 2015
Cryddit / @RayDillinger

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.msg10388435#msg10388435


https://archive.ph/GYMCj

He saw a split-level system like lightning. He called this a "Bink".

I didn't realise at the time came to understand that he was more crypto anarchist at heart then I understood at first

https://twitter.com/Dr_CSWright/status/1600398205505634304?t=EVkjg_4DVq70Ssm8GHsy2g&s=19