Who is Hal Finney and why do recent findings / the oldest BTC lore point to him Being Satoshi? Hal was the first [eponymous] person to ever use Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto is an encoding of the name Hal Finney… if you write out various Japanese (Hirigana and Katakana) letters that visually look like “Hal Finney” they are phonetically pronounced “Satoshi Nakamoto”. H..… = サ = sa A…... =ト = to L…... = し = shi FIN.. = な = na N….. = カ = ka E…… = モ = mo Y…… = と = to also 17 years ago the first-ever tweet mentioning Bitcoin was posted by Hal Finney. so after decoding “Satoshi Nakamoto” it spells “Hal Finney” Hal Finney is a computer scientist Who joined Cypherpunks to specialise in Cryptography and PET's (Privacy enhancing technologies). Indeed Hal also received the FIRST EVER Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto (Was this him testing the network once live?) The legend passed away in 2014 from ALS. Hal Finney shared Satoshi's original Vision, when he wrote this statement bitcoin was priced at $0. A Simple search brings up tonnes of lore pointing to Hal being Satoshi. Satoshi may never return, but there are far too many coincidences to suggest that Hal Finney was not Satoshi. And we get many others people think the same, even @brian_armstrong revealed Hal Finney as Satoshi.