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NEW: The Finney Freedom Prize for the 2012-2016 era goes to Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell for their contributions to Bitcoin usability, scalability, and privacy. For more info on the Prize, Hal’s story, the committee, and future prizes, visit

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Finney Prize

About Hal Prize Details Laureates Treasury Committee About the Finney Prize In 2024, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) created the Finney Freedom P...

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Liberty Farmer the_liberty_farmer@nostrcheck.me 11 months ago

Fantastic news! Great work.

HODL hodl@primal.net 11 months ago

Well deserved

Kendy 11 months ago

That Maxwell last name gives me PTSD lol

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Hanshan hanshan@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago

love these guys. Many years ago Pieter took the time to set me straight about CISA

goatmeal goatmeal@apathy.tv 11 months ago

greg maxwell is a mentally ill crazy person with a long history of damaging open source projects

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Gigi dergigi.com 11 months ago

Well deserved. Love to see it 🫂

Braydon Fuller _@braydon.com 11 months ago

Thanks Pieter and Greg! And Hal! 👏

Kendy 11 months ago

Oof

Dr. Bitcoin, MD drgo@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago

Believe it or not, some of Greg’s ideas that could be implemented today (as far as I can understand them) if we need more transactions per block have yet to be programmed but the groundwork for it has been laid (somewhere on YouTube there is a video of Greg going over space savings of cross input signature aggregation, but it requires schnorr signatures which weren’t available in the pre-segwit era). Both of these guys are fully deserving of this recognition. We are all better off on account of their work.