Finney Freedom Prize

I was honored to be chosen by the Human Rights Foundation to create the Finney Freedom Prize which will be distributed each halving until ~ the year 2140.

The first Laureate for the 2009-2012 era is Hal Finney, a pioneer of digital privacy and electronic cash systems, who stood alongside Satoshi Nakamoto to help develop Bitcoin in its earliest days.

The Prize was created to honor Hal for his lifelong dedication to digital liberty, and to recognize those who, like him, strive to help make Bitcoin a better tool for freedom.

One of my favorite quotes from Hal served as the inspiration:  “The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.”

To represent liberty is a bronze dove patina’d white and perched high atop a bitcoin block foundation.  Bitcoin extends the outreach of liberty, while in turn, bitcoiners protect the network.

When the last Finney Freedom Prize is distributed over 100 years from now, the patina will have gradually evolved providing further protection for the award.  Much like the gradual development of Bitcoin and its ongoing protection of liberty.