Crypto community urges Jack Dorsey to memorialize Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney's Twitter account

As Twitter prepares for a massive cleanup of inactive accounts, the crypto community urged the company to memorialize the account of legendary programmer and early Bitcoin adopter Hal Finney.

Unlike Facebook, which offers users a possibility to freeze and keep the account of a deceased user, Twitter's current policy doesn't leave any option to access such accounts.

Dozens of crypto users urged Jack Dorsey, the founder and CEO of Twitter, not to delete the account of Hal Finney, one of the most influential people in crypto.

Apart from being one of the few places where Finney's online presence remains untouched, Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin developer and the CTO of Casa, said out that memorializing the account would allow Finney to access it again.

A veteran of cryptography and one of the first adopters of Bitcoin, Finney is considered one of the most important figures in the crypto industry.

Finney's quest to preserve privacy led him to co-create Pretty Good Privacy, the first freely available strong crypto tool.

A strong current of people has since adopted the idea that Finney was actually Bitcoin's original creator.

Finney himself denied these allegations several times.

Despite his progressing paralysis and numerous health complications, Finney was optimistic about his prospects until his death in 2014.

While it's worth noting that nobody has yet been revived after being cryogenically frozen, Finney's optimistic spirit and immeasurable contribution to the crypto industry should be enough to keep his account alive.