Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room.
I seriously doubt this is what happened--starting back up with a post like the one that was made is a lot different than some random person finding a phone and, say, stealing bitcoin from a wallet or using the phone to pay for things via an app or something similar.
His password has not changed recently, which means someone either knows his password or has physical possession of a device he was logged into the forum with when he passed.
When he created a
thread asking for donations, he asked that donations be sent to
1FkHCFv8PN1kerJct3RsQQpMcRoTnx2vWe, and the coin in this address moved yesterday. The address the coin was sent to,
1MZh187t7Lkz3Zn5cpWFmQbqowfL6ReP29 received other transactions, presumably from various services that Bruno had coin on deposit with.
The transfer of coin means whoever has his phone at least knows what bitcoin is (many people do). I am pretty sure there are some people who work at nursing homes also have forum accounts at bitcointalk, and some others probably know what bitcointalk is. Even if whoever stole Brunos' phone hadn't heard of bitcointalk previously, s/he could have done some research.
Nursing homes/hospices have banned all visitors, so it is just patients and nurses. When a patient dies, someone will clean his room of the deceased's personal belongings. My guess is someone from the hospice stole Bruno's phone when cleaning his room.
But how did that person exactly know that Bruno was a bitcointalk forum member and immediately got to his browser and logged in?
How did they know that once they log into bitcointalk, will first have to delete the last OP made by Bruno's account?
How did they know about changing the custom VIP title from "
In Memoriam" to "
Back to End CO-VID Struggles"?
My guess? The person could have been accessing Phinnaeus Gage's account or for a while.
It is probably a fair assumption that someone didn't start using a random noise generator to start using his account. Whoever has Bruno's phone likely did some research prior to posting. Based on my above blockchain analysis, they have had his phone for at least a day prior to posting.
<--- Lower right of image 1BTC100 (presumably it's meant to read 1BTC1oo ...)
phinnaeusgage
