The crypto community is marking the 12th anniversary of Hal Finney’s death on August 28, 2014. Finney became the first person to receive a bitcoin transaction on January 12, 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto sent him 10 BTC. A longtime cypherpunk and cryptography engineer who worked at PGP Corporation and built Reusable Proofs of Work in 2004, he later lived with ALS until dying at age 58 in Phoenix, Arizona. Speculation that he was Satoshi Nakamoto has persisted, though he denied it and no verified evidence has settled the question. The anniversary comes as bitcoin recently crossed $80,000, lifting the notional value of that first 10 BTC transfer to roughly $805,000.