#Cryonics

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Hal Finney Hal Finney was a cryptographer who developed Pretty Good Privacy and reusable proof-of-work, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, and was cryopreserved by Alcor after his death from ALS.
Max More Max More is a British-born philosopher who coined the term extropy, founded the Extropy Institute and the libertarian-transhumanist movement of the 1990s, and later ran the Alcor cryonics foundation.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation California-incorporated cryonics nonprofit, based in Scottsdale since 1994, whose record includes the 1988 Riverside coroner raids, a 1992 appellate ruling, the Ted Williams dispute, Arizona's failed 2004 regulation bill, and related-party vendor payments.

Extropianism Extropianism is the libertarian transhumanist movement founded by Max More in the late 1980s around the Extropy Institute, whose 1990s mailing list fed longtermism, the rationalist community and cypherpunk circles.
Transhumanism Transhumanism is the movement to use technology to transcend human biological limits, named in its modern sense by Julian Huxley in 1957 and organized through the World Transhumanist Association founded in 1998.