From the twittersphere ...

"Nope. Bitcoin was announced on the cryptography mailing list in January 2009 and many people could have tested it. I found Bitcoin around April. @Cointelegraph"



- https://twitter.com/marttimalmi/status/1263159959602298886

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"Indeed. These folks call themselves journalists!

The BTC block in question was mined on Feb. 9th 2009.

In addition to SF, the 'cypherpunk' list and the P2P foundation - it's worth pointing out that http://bitcoin.org was also already live ...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115053/http://bitcoin.org/"

- https://twitter.com/BitcoinFX_BTC/status/1263429814188421120

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"0800-CALLCRAIG, Calvin, better check with #Faketoshi if it's not on his fake & debunked Tulip Trust list!"



- https://twitter.com/MyLegacyKit/status/1263143402117398534

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"So the drama around the 50BTC that moved from a early wallet gets even better....Craig submitted to court a while back this address belonged to him - And now Calvin says he spoke to Craig and he says it wasn't him ..."



- https://twitter.com/BitcoinMemeHub/status/1263388598453207042