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Some bitcoin enthusiasts have used their cryptocurrency to travel around the world. Others have spent it on a trip to space. But the very earliest user of bitcoin (after its inventor Satoshi Nakamoto himself) has now spent his crypto coins on the most ambitious mission yet: to visit the future.
Hal Finney, the renowned cryptographer, coder, and bitcoin pioneer, died Thursday morning at the age of 58 after five years battling ALS. He will be remembered for a remarkable career that included working as the number-two developer on the groundbreaking encryption software PGP in the early 1990s, creating one of the first “remailers” that presaged the anonymity software Tor, and—more than a decade later—becoming one of the first programmers to work on bitcoin’s open source code; in 2008, he received the very first bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.
Now Finney has become an early adopter of a far more science fictional technology: human cryopreservation, the process of freezing human bodies so that they can be revived decades or even centuries later.
(Score: 2) by nyder on Friday August 29 2014, @06:12PM
Dude died, and will be dead in the future if they thaw him. I'm guessing that most the peeps that are frozen will eventually get dumped because corporations don't care.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday August 30 2014, @03:32AM
They might be used for medical experiments. Consider that the technology to re-animate them hasn't been developed yet so it's kind of unavoidable.
Makes you think about the Alien: Resurrection [wikipedia.org] movie..