26,650 bitcoins at today's rate , make more than 200 mil. fuck me, he is smart.
even though satoshi could have done same, but he wanted everyone to join/participate.
ArtForz mined way more than 26,650 BTC. It was just his 9 week mining result when he started. He was likely responsible for roughly 25% of the total hashrate for a few months. With 7200 BTC per day (actually even more because the blocks were faster), let's say 180 days, he probably mined at least 300,000 BTC. But he sold most of his BTC and bought equipment from the sales and who knows how much BTC he left. Apart from being the first to GPU mine, he was also the first to mine with FPGAs and ASICs.