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Roughly seven days ago the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, disclosed that the social media platform planned to purge 1.5 billion Twitter names if they were inactive or the accounts haven\u2019t logged in for years. After the statement, bitcoiners grew concerned that the now-deceased computer scientist Hal Finney\u2019s Twitter account would be terminated. It seems that since then, Finney\u2019s wife Fran Finney has taken over Hal\u2019s social media account in hopes Musk won\u2019t purge her husbands account.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fran Finney Has Control of Hal\u2019s Twitter Account \u2014 Says She Activated It to Protect the Account From Elon Musk\u2019s Inactive Twitter Account Purge<\/h2>\n

On Dec. 16, 2022, the bitcoin supporter Jameson Lopp tweeted<\/a> an alert letting people know that Hal Finney\u2019s Twitter account \u2014 @halfin<\/a> \u2014 was now active. \u201cALERT,\u201d Lopp said. \u201cSomeone has taken control of Hal\u2019s Twitter account. Consider that we don\u2019t know the intentions of the new owner; it could be compromised.\u201d Lopp\u2019s tweet got a reply from the @halfin Twitter account, which disclosed why Finney\u2019s account was now active again.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is @franfinney. I am tweeting for Hal (as @pavlenex thought) to avoid his account being purged by Elon,\u201d Finney\u2019s account tweeted<\/a> in response to Lopp\u2019s tweet on Friday. Fran Finney, Hal\u2019s wife, also confirmed<\/a> from her personal account that she was the one behind activating the account after it wasn\u2019t used since 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate how people monitor Hal\u2019s account. Thank you,\u201d Fran Finney\u2019s account said to Lopp.<\/p>\n

The news follows Elon Musk detailing that Twitter would remove 1.5 billion inactive Twitter names on Dec. 9. Following Musk\u2019s statements, a great number of bitcoin supporters grew worried that Finney\u2019s account would be purged and they begged him<\/a> to preserve Finney\u2019s account. Furthermore, there\u2019s been some weird signings taking place as well as a Bitcointalk forum user named \u201cOnesignature\u201d signed<\/a> a message associated<\/a> with a block Finney had mined.<\/p>\n

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Harold Finney II was a computer scientist known for being one of the first people to use the Bitcoin software when it was released by Satoshi Nakamoto in Jan. 2009. Finney was a well known cypherpunk before Bitcoin\u2019s inception, and Finney developed a reusable proof-of-work (PoW) scheme in 2004, before Nakamoto introduced the distributed ledger system. In March 2013, Finney posted to bitcointalk.org and told people he was paralyzed due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) complications. The computer scientist passed away in August 28, 2014, but still worked on a project called \u201cbcflick\u201d up until his death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Additionally, not too long after that odd signing event, the \u2018pharma bro\u2019 and former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli<\/a> shared a signed message associated with an address linked to Finney. The message<\/a> was tied to the address Hal used to receive 10 BTC<\/a> from Satoshi Nakamoto and the message said: \u201cThis Transaction was made by Paul Leroux to Hal Finney on January 12, 2009 #bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not known if anyone has reached out to Fran Finney directly about these odd address signings and whether or not she knows why someone may have access to Hal\u2019s private keys. Shkreli told the software developer Greg Maxwell that he planned to reach out to the Finneys to ask about the private keys. The controversial Shkreli, however, did not disclose how he obtained the message that used an old 2009 address with a message about Paul Le Roux.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about Fran Finney taking over her husband\u2019s account to protect it from Elon Musk\u2019s purge? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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