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I'm not going to do it regularly, but I'll make an exception here and give VIP status & a custom title to Phinnaeus Gage and Gleb Gamow. However, I know that these accounts changed hands in the past, and maybe arrangements have been for this to happen again in the future; therefore, if either account ever posts in the future, I will remove this stuff from the account.

It appears that the account has resurfaced and began posting. Haven't seen evidence yet that it truly is the original owner - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251074.0

Edit: His alleged proof - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251074.msg54500907#msg54500907

He posted a picture dated from 2019 as "proof".

I think someone probably has his phone. Or maybe, he had sent some pictures in his outbox.

The most likely scenario is he sold or gave his account to someone. Or it was hacked, but the timing seems a bit suspicious. The donation address thread he posted was likely done by the same person given the funds moved a couple of days ago. Seems far too much of a coincidence to me. He used the same sort of old photos before for the donation thread. Bruno probably sent a few pictures privately to people to prove he was in the hospital, maybe to solicit donations himself. One of those people could have then used the pictures for a scam. Maybe he tried to sell the account as he did before, or someone made him an offer for it. Someone finding his phone and then posting on a forum seems incredibly unlikely.

I don't think selling his account is consistent with the strong evidence that he died a couple of weeks after he posted asking for donations.

I see threads in the dev and tech sub all the time that are consistent with people being in possession of wallets that don't belong to them, trying to find the passphrase to steal the coin. I also see threads in the services marketplace sub of people offing huge bounties for cracking wallet passwords. My presumption has always been that these are people that purchased old hard drives/computers with encrypted wallet files and they are trying to steal the coin in the wallet files. If people do this with old computers, I don't see any reason why people wouldn't do this with found phones.

I believe the person who moved the coin is someone different than the person who posted the donation address because otherwise they would have no reason to move the coin. If you google Bruno's name, you will find his forum handles, which might lead someone to access bitcointalk on his phone.