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Hal Finney's essay on LessWrong, written approximately two months after his ALS diagnosis in August 2009. Despite facing a terminal illness, Finney expressed hope and determination, dreaming of contributing to open-source software even from within an immobile body.
Satoshi explains the importance of Bitcoin being open source, arguing that the source code itself is the specification and that trust comes from transparency.
Satoshi expresses excitement about the first client-only implementation and asks whether it will be open source.
Mike Hearn announces the open-source release of BitcoinJ under the Apache 2 license, and asks about merkle branch verification, scripting language ideas, and why transaction replacement was disabled.