[ExI] hal finney and gimps, was: RE: New pentagon tiling discovered

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 14:54:14 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:04 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:


> ​> ​
> Hal Finney read our Mersenne Prime as currency discussion, then went off
> and invented BitCoin.


​Nobody knows ​for sure but the general consensus is that (probably) either
Hal did or
Nick Szabo
​ did, and both were once members of this list.​

Nick Szabo
​ was pretty active in 1996 and I talked with him a lot back then. Time
flies.

  John K Clark






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