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. In other words, his body will be frozen and kept in that state until a solution comes along to revive him, if that ever happens. After his death was pronounced, Finney’s body as flown in Arizona to the Alcor Life Extension
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