About seven days ago, Twitter owner Elon Musk has revealed that the social media platform plans to remove 1.5 billion Twitter names if they are inactive or if the accounts haven’t logged in in years. After the statement, Bitcoiners became concerned that the Twitter account of the late computer scientist Hal Finney could be shut down. Since then, Finney’s wife, Fran Finney, apparently hijacked Hal’s social media accounts in hopes that Musk would not delete her husband’s account.
Fran Finney controls Hal’s Twitter account — says he activated the account to protect it from purging Elon Musk’s inactive Twitter account
On December 16, 2022, Bitcoin advocate Jameson Lopp tweeted that Hal Finney’s Twitter account (@halfin) is now active. I issued a warning to let people know. “Be vigilant,” Ropp said. “Someone has taken over Hal’s Twitter account. Considering we don’t know the intentions of the new owner. It could be compromised.” account has been reactivated.
“It’s @franfinney. I’m tweeting for Hal to avoid having his account purged by Elon (thought by @pavlenex as it was),” Finney’s account tweeted in response to Lopp’s tweet on Friday. Hal’s wife Fran Finney also confirmed from her personal account that she was the one who activated an account that had been inactive since 2010.
“I appreciate people monitoring Hal’s account. Thank you,” Fran Finney’s account said to Ropp. This is after detailing that Twitter will remove 1.5 billion inactive Twitter names on the same day. In the wake of Musk’s statement, many bitcoin supporters worried that Finney’s account might be deleted and begged him to save it. Finney account. Additionally, there have been some bizarre signings going on, with a user on her Bitcointalk forums named “Onesignature” signing messages related to blocks Finney has mined.
Additionally, not long after that bizarre signing event, Martin Shkreli, a “pharmaceutical buddy” and former hedge fund manager of his, posted a message with a signature associated with the address linked to Finney. shared. The message was associated with the address Hal used to receive his 10BTC from Satoshi Nakamoto, and the message read:
It is unclear if anyone contacted Fran Finney directly about these strange address signatures, or if she knew why anyone had access to Hal’s private key. Shkreli told Greg Maxwell, the software developer, that he plans to contact Finney and ask about the private key. However, the controversial Shkreli did not disclose how he got the message about Paul Le Roux using his old address from 2009.
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