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Legendary Bitcoin contributor Hal Finney's Twitter profile is safe -- for now
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▲5.45% rewards application Lolli asked Twitter to memorialize Hal Finney‘s 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 cryptocurrency‘s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, sparking ... (full story)