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by Finneyfamily 809 days ago
This is blatantly false (Hal Finney felt confident in that his family would be OK and they were technological savvy enough to work out access to their inheritance), but also, they became a target so I believe that their privacy should be respected.

Edit: sources are (1) a note about the Finney family being targeted in 2014, https://www.wired.com/2014/12/finney-swat/ and (2) a message from his wife in 2022 https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ruaaur/a_message_f...

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Sorry if I was incorrect, I was going off of what I heard. I heard he spent all his money towards the end of his life.

I'm not seeing anything in those links to suggest otherwise.

Are you suggesting they were left with a sizeable fortune?