I am curious when reading this and want to know how HRF distribute this prize. No surprise that they do a right thing by sending it (or planning to send it) to Hals' wife, Fran Finney, and it is also good to know the widow plans to donate it to a charity.


Some names I can think of because they are important in Bitcoin history.

• Laszlo Hanyecz with a classic trade: pizza for bitcoins ?
  
  • http://heliacal.net/~solar/bitcoin/pizza/
• Gavin Andresen: Early Bitcoin developers, took over the forum from Satoshi Nakamoto and talked about Bitcoin in front of CIA.
  
  • Gavin will visit the CIA
• theymos: built a first Bitcoin block explorer.
  
  • A first Bitcoin block explorer. How does it look like?
• bitboy: designed the Bitcoin logo which is used nowadays
  
  • More Bitcoin logos, buttons, and also some other graphics

Did you mean how do they decide on the winner? I am pretty sure that alike many awarding system they have a criteria and a panel of judges if you will. Let us just hope those who will decide are credible and critical.

Since this is the first time the award is being given, we are still almost playing blindly here with not much information or expectations of what is about to come.

She has a good heart, bless her.

Plus Gavin's Bitcoin XT proposal, without the proper framing/planning. It was also divisive that ended with a community split between small blockers and big blockers.


My candidate is controversial - Shaolinfry for proposing the UASF and starting the movement/awareness that the miners don't have absolute power over the network, https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1805060.0

Whether if it's right or wrong, I believe it's a very important development in the game-theory behind Bitcoin and decentralized networks.

Wow I never knew Gavin once supported CW, which I would say was more disappointing than the first.

I was thinking of Wei Dai: The creator of B money, bitcoin predecessor https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money but I think with your reason here, others will be considered and the developers of the SegWit
Though I don't think the LN dev will be given this award since it's not actual solution to the Bitcoin scalability issues while Pieter Wuille may probably get this award his contribution to the development of the Segwit address. While Hodlonaut definitely deserves it for his fight for the truth.
Also I think an this award should also go to El Salvador or top influencer in making bitcoin a legal tender there, since they are the first country for doing so.


Hal Finney wife is just as wonderful as her husband, God bless her and their family

What about this forum? Shouldn't theymos get the recognition he deserves for keeping this forum alive and taking such good care of it for all those years? This is the official Bitcoin forum created by Satoshi himself, but if it wasn't managed in a good way, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be in the state it is today, and we can't neglect the efforts of theymos for doing that along with other members who supported him.

Understandably, later developers are deserving as well, but I think he should at least get one of the awards from 2012-2024 because even if he didn't contribute much to the network or the blockchain in these years, he has been around and managing and keeping the official forum alive which isn't less than other contributions people have made for Bitcoin.

I hope I'm wrong, but apart from some developers who used to be active on the forum or are still active, I think that those who decide on the winners won't really take forum members into account. @o_e_l_e_o was one of the best members of this forum, and the members have recognized him several times by choosing him as member of the year in the annual competition.

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This is something that everyone should know because it shows how bad someone as a person is in evaluating other people, not to say naive enough to believe in fairy tales.

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These are good candidates who definitely have a chance of being selected. The selection will still depend on the criteria of the commission that will decide on it, and their names are in the article. What is certain is that it will not be easy for them to choose, because there are a lot of good people who have made a great contribution to Bitcoin over the years.

I'm happy for an award like this to recognize and celebrate exceptional individuals, whether they're dead or alive, who had worked to make Bitcoin what it is today, and a research of deserving individuals, the name Hal Finney, will surely appear. I wouldn't worry about the criteria that the organizers will use to get future awardees, I'm sure that it'll be names that we know and are deserving of the award. I don't know if there's any awards or recognition to the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto?

I will prefer this also, which will be for a better transparency and makes it easier for us to understand the reasons they picked each winners

Wow almost 7 years to accept a clear truth, I seriously need to go know more about the whole CW drama because I can see this was really serious when it really started and now understand why many BTT og were really following the court case earlier this year.

He had a meeting with him and then he believed CW, I will only believe that this is not bribery if there are other individuals who ever communicated with Satoshi before he left that believes CW claims with him or else it's a pretty obvious bribe