Renowned cryptographer Hal Finney, known for his work on PGP encryption software and on early Bitcoin development, has passed away on Thursday following a five-year battle with ALS – a terrible disease that’s currently enjoying a viral funding campaign thanks to the “Ice Bucket Challenge” meme – but the programmer hoped that one day technology will heal him. According to Wired , Finney has become an early adopter of a kind of tech that’s only seen in movies, human cryopreservation.
Former Bitcoin coder and ALS patient is now being cryonically frozen