20 May Fran Finney & Others Deny Moving Possible ‘Satoshi’ Bitcoin
Recent Bitcoin (BTC) transactions sent from an 11-year-old wallet were not those of famed computer scientist Hal Finney, as confirmed by Finney’s wife Fran.
“Very odd,” Fran Finney told Cointelegraph when questioned on the recent transactions sent from a Bitcoin wallet that, prior to today, sat untouched for more than a decade. “These were not coins my husband mined and we had nothing to do with this,” she added.
Hal Finney died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in 2014. Finney’s wife Fran works with the ALS Association, an organization devoted to finding a cure for this dreadful disease.
Who was Hal Finney?
Hal Finney helped develop Bitcoin during the project’s earliest days. Finney assisted in coding Bitcoin during its inception and was one of the earliest miners on the network.
Prior to his work on Bitcoin, Finney worked on a number of other innovative endeavors, such as the PGP encryption framework. Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, also reportedly…