Quote from: Last of the V8s on July 13, 2017, 05:53:38 PM

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.0

all the old timers disproving even the 1 million figure

That's an interesting thread, would like to point out a couple of quotes.

Quote from: gmaxwell on April 14, 2013, 03:32:23 AM

Quote from: Sergio_Demian_Lerner on April 13, 2013, 10:27:04 PM

1. Satoshi mined almost alone from 1/3/2009 to 1/25/2010 (block 0 to block 36288).

He did not. I mined during that time so did many other people I've talked to. As you're probably aware the original software mined _very_ slowly, and contemporary hardware was slow. Heck even a fairly current machine with state of the art software can just barely do enough hashrate for difficulty 1. (and god, before more handout requests come: Bitcoin was worthless then, the software was annoying windows-gui only I ran it in wine+vncserver, and I didn't keep my original wallet)

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on April 14, 2013, 06:13:51 PM

As many have pointed out it is unlike Satoshi was a single person. So the idea there is a single $100M winner is dubious. When you remove the effect of other Satoshi miners the "satoshi share" is much smaller. If you then divide that among multiple participants it is likely the initial adopters have tens of thousands of coins and could sell them for millions. Say "Satoshi" mined half the coins, and Satoshi is 10 people, and a third of them have been sold. Oh noes each creator has ~80,000 BTC. BTC which is worthless unless the economy continue to expand. I don't lay awake fearing what the creators will do with their wealth. If they wanted to dump it they had plenty of opportunity especially last week. Note: before this gets misquoted I am not saying each creator has 80,000 BTC but it is just as plausible as the $100M headline number.

Quote from: Hal on March 19, 2013, 08:40:02 PM

When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.

That's my story. I'm pretty lucky overall. Even with the ALS, my life is very satisfying. But my life expectancy is limited. Those discussions about inheriting your bitcoins are of more than academic interest. My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy.
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Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney), https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0

It is believed that Satoshi has around 1 million bitcoins, it is not a fact or a statement backed by evidence, random guess. It might be true or false. Is it possible to track down each and every address owned by Satoshi? No. Does Satoshi still have private keys of all his addresses? Don't know. Since the Genesis block was mined until today bitcoin has gone through several phases of highs and lows. It is possible that Satoshi might have sold his coins during one of these phases or might still be holding it, but we don't know. Most importantly is Satoshi an individual or a group of individuals? We have no idea.

A lot of assumptions can be made, but it is not worth anything unless it is backed by a solid research/evidence. I personally don't care how much bitcoins Satoshi have or not.