Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto

The article argues that Hal Finney, the cryptographer and early Bitcoin contributor, was not Satoshi Nakamoto, and that the evidence it cites points elsewhere. Its main support is timing: Hal was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara on April 18, 2009, when Satoshi emailed Mike Hearn, and the author says the email timestamps and the blockchain transaction line up with Hearn's Zurich-based location. The author also cites Hal's ALS diagnosis in August 2009, differences in coding style such as tabs versus spaces and naming conventions, and a 2009 email from Satoshi to Martti Malmi that the author reads as a denial.