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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 jasassin on Saturday August 30 2014, @12:38PM
He'll be thawed in a thousand years to find systemd running the entire universe.
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday September 01 2014, @05:33AM
No, that's way too optimistic. A computer running systemd would never stay up that long without either crashing, having an update cause it to forget what some vital piece of hardware is for, rebooting unexpectedly, suspending itself, or some combination of the above.