Hal Finney, Bitcoin's Inventor: The Anarchist Bailout [JT #91]

In 2008, an anonymous hacker by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto posted the infamous Bitcoin whitepaper, a system for digital transactions using the very proof-of-work system that computer scientist Hal Finney had already invented in 2004. Finney wanted people to have a tool to protect themselves against central banking control schemes. Was Finney Nakamoto?