Fran Finney, the widow of early Bitcoin contributor Hal Finney, introduced a charity half marathon in honor of her husband by way of Twitter on Dec. 27.

The occasion is named “Working Bitcoin.” It goals to gather funds for analysis into therapy for ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Hal Finney was identified with the illness in 2009 earlier than he handed away from problems in 2014.

Fran Finney wrote on Twitter:

“We’re decided to discover a treatment for this devastating situation and any help you possibly can present will make an enormous distinction.”

Occasion organizers are accumulating donations in Bitcoin and fiat forex via the occasion’s web site, positioned at runningbitcoin.us. Contributors donating not less than $100 will obtain a free t-shirt commemorating the occasion. The highest 25 contributors will obtain a Hal Finney collectible autographed by Fran Finney.

The marketing campaign has raised over $8,600, together with $4,023 from Fran Finney herself. Organizers goal to boost $50,000 in complete.

The half marathon will happen between Jan. 1 and Jan. 10. Members can cowl the gap in a single day or all through the occasion. Hal Finney participated in distance regularly working previous to his ALS analysis, and the Working Bitcoin occasion web page calls the half marathon Hal’s “favourite distance.”

The occasion’s title additionally references an early tweet by which Hal Finney wrote “working bitcoin,” which means that he had begun to function a Bitcoin node. He was the second individual to run a Bitcoin node after Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

Fran Finney took over her husband’s Twitter account earlier this month to forestall his profile from being purged beneath Elon Musk’s anti-spam insurance policies. She stated she would intermittently proceed to tweet from her husband’s account.