Satoshi Nakamoto, Hal Finney, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Developers
Hal Finney's long read (Bitcoin and Me) is his personal retrospective article published on March 19, 2013, in the BitcoinTalk forum, covering his early involvement with Bitcoin, technical contributions, and personal insights.
1. Personal Background and Cryptographic Roots 1. Professional Background Finney recounts that his cryptographic career began with participation in the early development of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), collaborating with Phil Zimmermann, and becoming one of the founding members of the PGP Corporation. He was also active in the 'cypherpunk' community, having operated the first cryptography-based anonymous mail forwarding service, dedicated to the practice of privacy protection technology.
Bagua, at the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Conference, He Yi from Binance made a bold statement that Binance's goal is not just to be an exchange; it aims to build global digital financial infrastructure, targeting not just one billion users, but three billion.
When the United States landed on the moon, they were afraid you wouldn't believe it, so they installed three laser reflectors on the lunar surface. Any observatory with a bit of capability can send a laser pulse to those coordinates and receive a return light signal. Year after year, they send it and receive it, and it hasn't stopped for 56 years. All space agencies around the world acknowledge that the American moon landing is real. Even in 2026, there are still a group of amateur scientists spreading rumors that the Apollo moon landing was fake.
What I see is that CZ's dad is really impressive. He first worked at the county broadcasting station, then got a master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and stayed at the school. He brought his mother and daughter to the campus in Hefei, then went to Canada for a PhD, and again used a family visit visa to take his mother and daughter abroad to live in Canada. He also spent 7 months' salary to buy a 286 computer for CZ, the chosen one CZ, taking off.
Crypto Circle University Experience Xu Mingxing——Master's Dropout He Yi——Master's Dropout V God——Bachelor's Dropout Brother Sun——Master's Li Lin——Master's Li Xiaolai——Bachelor's Musk——Bachelor's, Double Degree Trump——Bachelor's CZ——Bachelor's Treasure Second Master——High School
The solitary brave soul in reverse, he said, if I don't go, the Biden administration will kill Binance. To live towards death, to fall into one's own trap, in 2023, he decided to fly to the United States to plead guilty. In this industry, there is no peace and tranquility; it's just that some bear the burden and move forward. Just like in 2020, when Vitalik said during dinner at his home in Singapore: Thank you, Binance, for shouldering the regulatory pressure of the entire industry, playing the role of a shield for the industry. Almost all regulatory attention is focused on this largest exchange in the world. Crypto geeks, cyberpunks, sacrifice, loneliness, the spirit of crypto never dies. He became the first innovator in American history to go to jail and pay hefty fines solely for violating one of the provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act, which states that services for U.S. users must be registered in the U.S. He is the founder of Binance, CZ, Zhao Changpeng.
Yi He@star okx still acts like a man, either apologize or have a lawyer intervene to notarize the payment. Do you still consider yourself a master of lies? Over 1 billion, even the ancestral 100 bitcoins won't do? How about a little less? The title of the richest brother is not just a fabricated news story you invested in (financial) to create, right? You even asked other media to repost, bought trending topics on Weibo, hoping to use the pig-killing list to attack Binance. Didn't expect that, did you? The fake richest pig-killing list turned into the Forbes list, and even more unexpectedly, it was yourself who got caught later? You even had to 'hand over' your own company to the state; handing over one Li Lin is nothing? Leaving without harm, you handed over more than just one Li Lin. Path dependence is normal; replicating how to defeat Huobi to suppress Binance like before.