An independent analyst and cryptocurrency investor believes that the most ardent enthusiasts of the world’s first cryptocurrency misunderstand the vision of the network that the famous cryptographer had.

Hal Finney was one of the first participants in the Bitcoin network. He is famous for having received the first 10 BTC coins directly from the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Finney was not only one of the early blockchain enthusiasts, but also made a significant contribution to its development. Finney worked on the BTC codebase and interacted with Nakamoto even before the release of the Bitcoin White Paper. After the launch of Bitcoin, Finney continued to contribute to the development of the network until his death in 2014.

Analyst Adam Cochran believes that Finney’s views on Bitcoin are often taken out of context. Finney was a progressive man who wanted Bitcoin to be a living and constantly evolving protocol. The classic of the crypto industry believed that Bitcoin as a monetary system could not be replaced by a similar project, as this would undermine the credibility of the new financial concept. At the same time, Finney was convinced that in a decentralized world there should be enough space for different blockchains, which have their own functions and advantages.

According to Cochran, Bitcoin maximalists have been distorting Hal Finney’s vision for years by promoting the ideological concept that Bitcoin is immutable. The analyst noted that the BTC pioneer came up with the concept of digital collectibles back in 1993. In addition, Finney approved of Bitcoin’s experiments with “colored coins” (colored coins) and believed that the negative impact of BTC on the environment should decrease over time. Cochran suggested that if Finney were alive, then Satoshi Nakamoto would certainly send him some tokens based on Bitcoin Ordinals.

Recall that in 2021, the head of Block, Jack Dorsey, while still the CEO of Twitter, launched his own node in the Bitcoin network, repeating Hal Finney’s historic tweet “Launching Bitcoin.”