Bitcoin fans can rest easy as Twitter has backpedalled on its plans to purge inactive accounts until it can figure out how to memorialize them.

The furor was sparked yesterday, after Twitter announced its plans to purge unused accounts starting in December.

In response, Bitcoin BTC rewards application Lolli asked Twitter to memorialize Hal Finneys account and tweets.

Finney, who sadly passed away in August 2014, was a well-known computer scientist and an early Bitcoin adopter.

He received the first Bitcoin transaction from the cryptocurrencys mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, sparking speculation that he may have indeed invented the coin, something he fervently denied.

Finneys Twitter profile currently boasts 15,000 followers, even though his last tweet was sent on September 15, 2010, several years before he passed away in Phoenix, Arizona due to complicationsderiving from ALS.

A former developer for the PGP Corporation and acypherpunk, Finney joined Twitter in October 2007. Then, on January 11, 2009, Finney tweeted saying he was running Bitcoin.

To date, the tweet has been retweeted over 6,000 times and liked by more than 15,000 users.

Finney will forever be part of Bitcoins history and I for one Im not surprised by the communitys desire to preserve his memory.

Published November 28, 2019 13:16 UTC

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