Lives of Remarkable People
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LRP — Lives of Remarkable People is a series of intellectual biographies about the individuals who built the foundation of digital civilization: Bitcoin, smart contracts, and decentralization. Not about hype or prices, but about ideas, character, and engineering integrity. We are shaping the canon of Web3 — while its creators are still among us.
1. Hal Finney — The Man Who Launched the Future
At that moment, Bitcoin was worth nothing. There were no exchanges, no venture funds, no institutional reports. There was code, a handful of computers, and an idea — digital money without a central authority. Finney became the first person, besides Satoshi Nakamoto, to run a Bitcoin node and the first to receive a transaction: 10 BTC in block 170.
2. Nick Szabo — The Architect Before Satoshi
Long before Bitcoin had a ticker symbol, before “blockchain” became a conference buzzword, and long before venture capital discovered decentralization, there was a quiet thinker writing about digital scarcity and contractual logic on a personal blog.
