Quote from: thebenjamincode on May 19, 2015, 01:41:56 AM

me too, i am glad that this currency called bitcoin is invented, i hope many currencies would be made like this one

Many have already been made. They're called altcoins. Wink

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Well, I would definitely like to know where he keeps his wallet and what the password for the encryption is. Grin

How many coins in total does Satoshi have?
Some say he holds more than 10% of total Bitcoins (not in circulation, but in number).
Did he ever dump?

they said he hold 1-2M at best, he has the greatest amount of coin, after him there was finney

no know if he ever dump, but i suspect that maybe during the 1200 peak he dumped some, just for test how strong was the adoption

Actually no one knows except for he himself, However there is an estimate that he currently has around a Million of the coins which haven't moved since the start.

From January 2009 to December 2009, the total network hashrate remained fairly constant at around 0.005 GH/s:

http://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=all

The difficulty also stayed at the minimum value of 1 throughout most of the year. Because there were very few others mining back then, it's usually assumed that most of this was due to Satoshi mining:

http://blockchain.info/charts/difficulty?timespan=all

Also, most of the earliest miners consolidated their coins into a few large addresses. Satoshi, on the other hand, left his addresses containing newly generated 50 BTC inputs untouched in their original addresses (excluding a very early one-off transaction made to Hal Finney).

Finally, Satoshi's addresses also exhibit unique patterns and characteristics which distinguish them from other addresses:

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Disclaimer: I can’t assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from block 1, and with the same performance as the genesis block. It can be identified by constant slope segments that occasionally restart. Also this entity is the only entity that has shown complete trust in Bitcoin, since it hasn’t spend any coins (as last as the eye can see). I estimate at eyesight that Satoshi fortune is around 1M Bitcoins, or 100M USD at current exchange rate. I’m sure there will be plenty of people that will carefully analyze the source data set and come up with the exact figure, which will be very close, but nevertheless they will scream at me again.

Link: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satoshi-nakamoto/

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So the next thing I did is try to find the reason for such an awkward probability distribution in the LSB of the nonce. So I divided the graph into two: one for “Satoshi” coinbases and one for the remaining coinbases. To identify Satoshi coinbases I used a coarser method than the original: I just separated spent coinbases and unspent coinbases, which identifies Satoshi coins with good accuracy.

Link: http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/new-mystery-about-satoshi/

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But no one knows his other addresses on which he might easily have a much higher amount in holding.

It is possible that Satoshi could have continued mining well past 2009/2010 while remaining undetected by changing his habits to match those of other miners. Even so, the number of miners exploded in 2010 and 2011 (e.g. hashrate on July 2010 was 40 times higher than 2009 and hashrate on July 2011 was 2.5 million times higher - although part of this increase was due to the transition towards GPU mining). Assuming that Satoshi continued mining with the same setup he started off with, his hashrate would have represented a much smaller proportion of the total network hashrate in 2010 and even more so in 2011 so he would have mined a fairly low number of coins (in relative terms) vs. 2009 when he basically had an entire year completely to himself.

I made an earlier thread about this subject here. Anyway, I doubt we'll ever know either way.