Quote from: cAPSLOCK on Today at 06:10:27 PM

Quote from: Casdinyard on Today at 05:44:59 PM

Quote from: Upgrade00 on Today at 04:59:13 PM

It's interesting, but not quite a significant event, there could be many versions of the story that would lead to someone having to move bitcoins mined in 2009 and it would be be almost impossible for us to predict right. Although, it shows how far Bitcoin have come in just a number of years. At the first year of it's creation miners may have generated blocks for fun, with a free actually believing in the concept of the network. And 50BTC then meant nothing, but not satoshis are worth significant amounts.

Quote from: Casdinyard on Today at 04:25:19 PM

If these bitcoins were from the same year as bitcoin was created then most probably this is related Satoshi Nakamoto, but why they are moving this now?

It raises suspicion but it doesn't really tell anything to conclude that.

It does not tell anything? Probably but if you think of it in more practical way, how many people just after a months of bitcoin was created would be interested to it? I doubt it would be just a random guy on the internet Undecided

My suspicion is also this is one of the inherited btc of Hal's, @JayJuanGee might be right, it might be one of his heirs. Gonna get an update to this.

That is the most likely UNLIKELY scenario.

In other words so far I see a lot of people trying to explain this as a bit of a lark... or someone who does not know what they are doing really. Someone who found a lost key, or in this case a Finny heir.

Possible. But highly unlikely.

Since this is one of the very earliest miners of bitcoin (100% chance). Starting from that supposition the following can be derived:

- This is POSSIBLY Satoshi (them)himself. Could be something he mined on something other than his main rig. I do not know how Satoshiblocks works, but it is not ironclad that this would NOT be Satoshi, and in fact if Satoshi was to do something like this I think the chances of him picking a block he mined a "different" way would be highly likely.

- This is not Satoshi, but instead an early miner. Hal's hoard is likely. But his heir would almost CERTAINLY be being advised by someone with enough knowledge to suggest the safest path forward to any coin movement.

- This is ONE block. So far it bears the likelyhood of being a flag, rather than someone who needs money. The person moving this is preparing to send some kind of message. We start to see dozens of other 50BTC moves from back there?? All bets off.

- This is a cryptographer/geek/cypherpunk from the mailing list. Nearing 100% likelyhood. The above scenarios are descendants of this idea. Even HF's heir is a proxy for that.

- It is HIGHLY unlikely that this is a block with keys owned by a person that has no other bitcoin. Again possible? Yes. likely? hell no.

So again.

Why are they doing this. It has to be meta. Has to be. (well... you know what I mean)

Whoaza cAPSLOCK. Probably you should just CAPSLOCK the whole post.

You are speaking in such absolutes, which makes it a bit more difficult to follow the plausibility of what you are asserting.

Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 06:14:09 PM

First of all stop getting your panties in a bunch.

I like this statement. Wink

Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 06:14:09 PM

There were tons of people aware of BTC on launch and there was not just a few that mined during this period. all the Cypherpunks newslist knew and I knew from the F@H chatrooms and that alone was a huge community so this could be anyone.

This is a bit of an absolute too, Hueristic.

I do understand that there may have been quite a few members on the cypherpunks mailing list, which does open up the possibility that any of them could have ended up sparking up a miner or just tried it out, but still... "could be anyone?" Seems to assert a bit too much without really any meaningful attempt to hone down the set of possibilities.