Sorry, your proof is insufficient. I was reading Bitcointalk for a year before I registered an account. They could have also been involved and active without registering an account in 2009.
Okay, you win. Simply show me which account of the first 17 users is Nick Spanos, Marshall Long and Leroy Fodor.
Two-plus years later, and I'm still waiting.
Lack of proof is not proof. It's not even evidence.
Ok, I've been spending too much time on the grid lately, refresh my memory - why do we care when these blokes joined Bitcointalk?
If I've never heard of them they're not mainstream enough for you to care this much about it.
We don't care much about them. They are, at most, minor players who lack credibility.
Bruno (aka Phinneas Gage, Gleb Gamow, YuTü.Co.in, et al) is a prolific cyber sleuth and he is great at finding obscure connections, but in my opinion his logic sometimes exceeds the bounds of reason. In this case, he claims that not having a Bitcointalk account in 2009 proves that someone wasn't involved in Bitcoin in 2009, and now that my inability to prove someone's ownership of an account in 2009 is proof that they didn't have an account.