Fran Finney on Enduring Love for Hal, Early Days of Bitcoin and the Running Bitcoin Challenge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this episode with Fran Finney, the widow of Hal Finney, we discuss:
- The early days of Bitcoin
- The claims that Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto and how that has impacted the Finney family
- Hal Finney's character and origin story
- Running Bitcoin Challenge: t.co/BwXaetsG1z
- How to cope with the loss of a loved one
Fran FInney, the wife of Hal Finney, met Hal when they were both undergraduate students at Caltech in the early 1970s. Fran pursued a career as a Physical Therapist, while enjoying the challenge of trying to keep up with her active, energetic, and brilliant husband on some of his many hobbies, which included running. On August 5, 2009, one week after their 30th Anniversary and seven months after Hal’s now famous Bitcoin transaction, Hal was diagnosed with ALS. Their lives changed forever. Now Fran is determined to help find a cure for this horrific disease. The graduate of Caltech, Occidental College and USC graduate is leading The Running Bitcoin Challenge, raising funds and awareness to help defeat ALS. The challenge is to run, walk, roll or hike the equivalent of a half marathon (all at once or throughout the year) in 2024. Sign up for the challenge and join the Coin Stories team at: t.co/BwXaetsG1z
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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Who is Fran Finney?
2:19 Met Hal at Caltech
5:19 Holocaust survivor Jewish family
7:52 Bitdeer Technologies Group promo
8:56 Early days of Bitcoin
11:17 Hal ahead of the curve
16:34 Communicating with Satoshi
18:42 What are symptoms of ALS?
22:37 What is a treatment for ALS?
25:55 Hal working through ALS
26:55 Bitcoin community
28:05 Bitcoin 2024 promo
28:32 Coinkite Cold Card Wallet promo
28:51 CrowdHealth promo
29:20 Fran's thoughts about Bitcoin
30:27 Hal Finney is not Satoshi Nakamoto
33:56 Harassment, extortion
37:50 How is Hal Finney remembered?
41:47 What is The Bitcoin Running Challenge?
46:16 Fran's hope for the future
47:26 Fran's advice for struggling families
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It's an incredibly beautiful story; Fran's pain seems to be cloaked by all her wonderful memories of Hal, allowing her to get through the podcast. God bless Natalie for allowing us to share in her story and Hal's greatness in the Bitcoin community.
You can tell it was 100 percent pure love
Come on, people, donate to the fundraiser. Thanks to Hal, we have Bitcoin. Fran, you are a fantastic person. Thank you, Natalie, for bringing us personal stories like this. I love your interviews. Please keep 'em coming.
What a lovely, heartfelt, empathic interview. Thanks to Fran and Natalie for coming together to do this, and in support of such a good cause too. I hope every runs or walks roughly 21 million millimeters in honor of this great cause. ( 21097500 millimeters is 21.0975 km or 13.1 miles, the distance of a half marathon!)
Hal Finney, although not Satoshi Nakamoto, remains a legendary figure in the Bitcoin community. His contributions are invaluable, and his presence will be deeply missed.
Hal was Satoshi
@@chefhikes Lol no he wasn't
The stories of Hal reminds me of my late uncle who was a similarly fascinating figure: interested in everything, a natural optimist, adventure seeker, problem solver, etc. I think to myself often how much he would have been obsessed over bitcoin as well. Having known a man similar to Hal, it’s amazing to see Hal’s work and his passion positively impact the lives of people all around the world. We’re all better because of people like him.
Fantastic interview!
This was great Natalie. Thank you Fran for sharing so authentically about your husband and your life with him. You're quite strong, delightful and appreciated.
Hal Finney once posted on Bitcointalk that he stopped mining on his laptop because of the noise. At that moment, I knew he wasn’t Satoshi, as Satoshi would not have done that. Nice to hear from you, Fran. You and your family inspire us to do the right thing. Happy New Year!
Read about "nick Szabo - Year 1998 - Whitepaper for Bit Gold" He is the real founder.
One of those chats that forces you to get in touch with your feelings. Beautiful story. My heart goes to Frann, her family and every person directly or indirectly affected by ALS.
God Bless you Natalie and Fran! What an awesome unique interview!
THE best Fran interview, focusing on her etc..Great work!
We are all Satoshi.
This was the most beautiful HUMAN "bitcoin dialog" you broadcasted so far ! Good work 🤝Well done!👏👏
Thank you Fran, for this very moving interview. Hal Finney was a good man, an exemplar for the Bitcoin community - a community that is full of good people, who are a great source of encouragement for the future in these dark times.
Nice one Natalie, keep spreading Bitcoin to the world , Bitcoin is freedom, from Nigeria .thank you for everything.
Natalie, thank you for doing this. Fran is such a warm and genuine person. It was great hearing her story and get such a real feeling for who Hal really was instead of the immature Internet lore that I’ve been bombarded with since entering this space.
Natalie, where Hal was ahead of the curve encoding and finance, you are ahead of the curve in taking the bitcoin world from juvenile memes to more a thoughtful audience.
nice to see shes still living a happy life
Breathtaking interview..
So heartbreaking and yet also heartwarming all in one pod. Thanks for the show Nat it really does make one treasure what one has!
So beautiful interview. Thank you Fran, thank you Natalie. BTW, Happy New Year 2024!!! May all the Best things in life remain with us!🙏
He was the most important person in the entire project, an experiment and project for a free world. To honor Hal Finney people should support the ALS campaign!
Very touching interview, thank you Natalie. You're both such lovely people. I've signed up to the challenge and have donated. As a community let's be responsible for finding a cure for ALS in Hal's memory!
What a wonderful interview that was Natalie. I loved hearing Fran & Hal's story.
Huge respect, Fran Finney.
What a beautiful interview thank you ❤
I couldn't watch this in one go..was sobbing and tears flowing 😢
He is my hero..
He had a great life. Chill. we all die!
Wow - what a scoop - this is why we all love Nat :)
Beautiful interview. May the love of Christ wash over both of you
Wow Satoshi was an amazing human being !
Running Bitcoin 🧡 for ALS
The story is great, the ads, especially the therapy sucked.
Ample evidence points to the late Hal Finney as Satoshi. But after watching this Fran's 50 minute interview with Natalie Brunell, it's clear to me that Fran, Hal's wife for 35 years to his passing, does not believe that.
Amazing Video 🥲😍
Love the new intro music and graphics!
Craig is satoshi
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Thank you for this !!! I used to use PGP back in 2014/15 in my job.
A cypherpunk pushing his wife to get into facebook, I could not see that comming :D
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Here's an idea Natalie - Why don't you interview the only person in the world claiming to be Satoshi: Craig Wright.
Craig is Satoshi, speak with him
Technical analysis should be also taken into consideration, historically BTC has had significant corrections 30% or more in the month of January, and this may be a repeat. although it seems that BTC is about to break through into 50k we had a substantial correction already. Then off course there is all this ETF psy-op distraction that could manipulate things in favour of the big Institutions. It's all a game a mind game. It could be like this from now until mid April/May....I'm indebted to Antonia White for her expert guidance, her deep crypto knowledge and traditional trading acumen have been invaluable in this journey, With her holistic investment approach and her commitment to staying current with market trends, she stands out as a formidable ally in the cryptocurrency world...
She's often interacts on Telegrams, using the user-name.
@Antoniawhite
Always backup your trading with a good strategy, else the bear market will hit you so hard, and you might wake up losing your saving, that's crypto for you.
I won't pretend to know everything, though. Her name is Antonia White but I won't say anything more.She's a Guru, you can find her basic information online; you are welcome to do further study.
What I appreciate about Mrs White is her ability to tailor strategies to individual needs. She recognizes that each investor has unique goals and risk tolerances, and she adapts her advice accordingly.
Fran is working with the government
And the sun holds the keys to Satoshi’s bitcoins
Not super excited anymore?
I bet if she was to get a lie detector and ask her if she knew about bitcoin and who is the creator she would fail
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Thanks to you both for letting me have a small glimpse of the life of Hal and Fran Finney.
Fran - keep remembering those good memories!!
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M.