Strange letter found at a cryogenic storage facility...

[LiteCoinGuy]

"Dear reader: attached on the USB stick is a signed txn moving the first 50 spendable coinbase coins from one of my addresses to another. This should be sufficient proof of identify. Additionally, below is the signature of this message using the same secp256k1 key. To anyone who can reanimate me or transfer my consciousness intact into a computer, I will pay you the sum of 1 million bitcoins via a key that I have memorized. That is the only part of this contract that you need to trust. Consider this an open challenge to develop the necessary technology to better mankind. Yours, H.F."




What do you think?

[creationlayer]

Superb.

This would be an amazing twist.

I want to believe....

[Windowly]

Hahaha
Good plot twist.

[BitcoinXio]

Wow, that would be awesome! You have a great imagination.

[rogerver]

Unfortunately for Hal Finney, the same technology that would be required to upload his consciousness into a computer, would also be able to read his mind without reviving him. In the future, even the content of our own minds won't be safe from being read by hackers.

[southtopia]

Unfortunately for Hal Finney, the same technology that would be required to upload his consciousness into a computer, would also be able to read his mind without reviving him. In the future, even the content of our own minds won't be safe from being read by hackers.

Well that's a cheery thought

On the flipside, relying on the ability of a guy who's been frozen for (likely) over a century to recite a bitcoin private key from memory sounds risky. Though I suspect whoever develops the technology to reanimate cryo-preserved humans would be motivated by the potential glory of such an achievement, and not by money alone.

[DarthCoin]

Maybe that guy is the REAL Satoshi Nakamoto? Make sense his disappearance into a cryogenic facility...

[BitcoinXio]

Unfortunately for Hal Finney, the same technology that would be required to upload his consciousness into a computer, would also be able to read his mind without reviving him.

Hmm this is a good thought experiment. Does one need to be "revived" to be living? If my brain is working do I need a body and organs to be alive? Why can't my brain function outside of my body and I still can be me? If I can function outside of my body then I can certainly live in a computer. Though the question of, would hackers have the technology to read my thoughts is another topic completely, which who knows. I presume they would need to "hack" into my brain in order to read it.

Maybe this guy can do it: http://bitshare.cm/post/51010038899/hacking-the-brain

[harrymmmm]

I don't see why this letter seems strange to anyone.
I find it a bit strange it hasn't surfaced before tho. Publication of something like this at the time he froze himself would have been logical to spur the research. His method of proving he has the coins is a bit weird too; why actually spend them (which can only be done once too)?.

That letter in no way implies that he is Satoshi Nakamoto; just that he has a lot of coins, and that he knows how to move them.
I read 'first 50 spendable coins at my address' to mean what it says, and not to mean the first blockchain spendable 50 coins.

Reading the data in a mind at the level of detecting a memorized key would be way past the technology needed to duplicate the mind in a simulation. The former requires understanding of the information and how it's structured, accessed, patterns formed, reaches 'consciousness, etc, while the simulation just requires accurate reproduction of synapse connections and their corresponding weights (measured on a very good functional MRI, for example). Don't worry about people hacking your mind for thoughts for a long time!

[CryptAxe]

This just in: Gawker and Gizmodo racing to thaw the body of Hal Finney who they will prove finally, really is Satoshi, really.