Facts we know for sure:
Dustin D. Trammell a.k.a. I)ruid was a member of 'The Cryptography Mailing List" and (one of) the first miner(s). He is the owner of 12higDjoCCNXSA95xZMWUdPvXNmkAduhWv and dumped his coins in June 2011 (worth $1.7m then) when Bitcoin was very volatile (after the first media attention of Silk Road and Bitcoin) on Bitcoin OTC.