Asked: Who was Hal Finney?
My answer: As early as 2004, Hal Finney had already proposed the “Reusable Proofs of Work” (RPOW) system. Hal Finney’s story shows that Bitcoin didn’t come out of nowhere: long before Bitcoin, the cryptography community had spent many years exploring electronic cash.
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