How cryonics and cryptography are related: from Hal Finney to CryoGen
Hal Finney, an American programmer and a pioneer in the crypto-currency community has decided to use cryopreservation because he had very ambitious plans — to visit the future. Hal was one of the first to work on the Bitcoin source code. He received the first transaction of 10 coins from Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
In the early 90’s, Hal Finney, together with Phil Zimmerman, have created the first version of the PGP application and founded the PGP Corporation. Hal Finney died on the morning of August 28, 2014, when he was 58 years old. It happened after several years of struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Today Finney is also famous because he recognized a much more incredible technology: cryopreservation. It is the process of freezing the human body so that it can be revived decades or centuries after death. Hal was always striving for progress and loved not only cryptography with its secrets and paradoxes but also transhumanism because he shared its ideas for prolonging life.
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The KrioRus company does everything to make it possible to really resuscitate such wonderful people as Hal Finney
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After the crypto community learned of Hal’s disease, many sacrificed some of their bitcoins to treat Finney. The amount was about 12.5 thousand dollars. At first, the family wanted to buy for Finney a new specialized computer interface, with electromyographic switches that read signals from the superficial muscles, allowing him to better control his computer with voice and to write the code. But instead, the donations were directed to cryonic procedures at the request of Hal and his wife.
Now, the thought that her husband is cryopreserved can comfort her in some way. “This does not cancel the fact that he is no longer here. But the fact that he can come back calms and reassures me. “ Finney’s body is now at a temperature of -196 degrees Celsius inside a three-meter Dewar filled with liquid nitrogen, and it will be stored in complete anabiosis at Alcor cryonics company.
“Here he will stay until technologies appear that will solve problems like ALS and the aging process,” says Max More, the director of Alcor and Finney’s old friend. “Then we can get Hal back alive and healthy.”
Despite the fact that so far no one has been reborn from the state of cryonic freezing, the wife of Hal Finney, Fran, thinks that her husband is absolutely right that he decided to use this technology because he believed that in the near future humankind would be able to revive people.
Fran said: “He was always optimistic about the future, and he welcomed every new step forward, every new technology. Hal relished life and did everything he could. “
Despite Finney’s diagnosis of ALS back in 2009, this did not stop his cryptographic research. Even as he began to develop paralysis, he continued to write code and contribute to the development of Bitcoin. He even created a program that allowed him to use eye movements to adjust the position of his wheelchair.
Around the time then ALS severely restricted Finney’s capabilities, he said that the cryonics plan gave him some consolation. He wrote in 2009: “I was surprised because I always considered cryonics a matter of the distant future. But, as it turned out, in such a situation it is necessary to rely mostly on hope, and in principle, cryonics provides another way for a possible favorable outcome. “
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