In his early career, he was credited as lead developer on several console games. He also was an early Bitcoin user and received the first bitcoin transaction from Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney was born in Coalinga, Californiain He went on to attend the California Institute of Technologygraduating with a BS bitcoin dead 28 engineering in After graduation from Caltech, he went to work in the computer gaming field for a company that developed video games such as Adventures of TronArmor AmbushAstroblast and Space Attack.
Finney was a noted cryptographic activist. InFinney created the first reusable proof of work system before bitcoin. Finney was a cypherpunk and said: It seemed so obvious to me: The computer can be used as a tool to liberate bitcoin dead 28 protect people, bitcoin dead 28 than to control them. He was an early Bitcoin user and received the first bitcoin transaction from Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Finney lived in the same town for 10 years that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto lived Temple City, Californiaadding to speculation that he may have been Bitcoin's creator. In MarchFinney posted on a Bitcoin forum BitcoinTalk that he was essentially paralyzed, but continued to program. He continued to program until his death; he was working on experimental software called bcflick, which uses Trusted Computing to strengthen Bitcoin wallets.
Bitcoin dead 28 the last year of his life, the Finneys received anonymous calls demanding an extortion fee of 1, bitcoin. They became victims of swatting — a hoax "where the perpetrator calls up emergency dispatch using a spoofed telephone number and pretends to have committed a heinous crime in the hopes of provoking an armed police response to the victim's home".
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