First Bitcoin user: Celebrating legendary Cypherpunk Hal Finney

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Worshipping at the Church of Satoshi has never been a bulletproof vocation. The sect of Hal Finney is a different story.

Yes, even this Supply Shock has spent sizable energy on what Satoshi said over the four-ish short years that the pseudonym was active… and subjected you to all sorts of hypotheticals and assumptions about their motivations for leaving.

Satoshi is/was clearly a brilliant individual. But if their decision to “move onto other things” means anything at all, we must treat whatever Satoshi said or signaled publicly as starting points on a larger journey. 

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