Quote from: Hal on January 16, 2011, 07:04:21 PM

Quote from: ribuck on January 16, 2011, 02:19:26 PM

Quote from: NegativeOne on January 16, 2011, 11:35:21 AM

Good question - here's the answer http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-bitcoins-ever-spent.html

Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. I think it's almost certain that such an early block would have been generated by Satoshi. Of course, "spent" is quite a strong term. The coins might just have been sent to a different wallet.

This was actually a test payment Satoshi sent to me during debugging. I see in my email logs I offered to send it back but it seems I didn't. Huh

It was an IP-address based payment.

You might find this new post interesting : http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.com/2011/01/life-of-bitcoin.html

I've analysed all of the transactions stemming from that first transfer and produced a graph showing how the bitcoins got spread around and passed between different addresses. Grin