Re: historical blk00000 coinbase analysis: is ~1.7 M bitcoins likely lost?
To help try to support/debunk the "patoshi" lines as THE Satoshi, I attempted to gather the few 'known' early non-Satoshi blocks and see what they can tell us. Hal Finney (RIP 
) and theymos were kind enough to share screen shots of their earliest transactions in past threads. I transcribed them all, resolved each funding block, and mapped them using satoshiblocks.info (see below).
Sources:
Hal's early Mined blocks/accounts --> https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKjGZOoR.png&t=615&c=47KeLAG24YRF9w
(sorry just a newbie so I can't include actual screen shots
)
appearing in Taras's wonderful 'Payment No. 1: A Closer Look at the Very First Bitcoin Transfer' thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346992.0
This thread also IDs block #9 attribution to Satoshi and identifies the likely reason block #9 was used to 'gift' bitcoins from Satoshi to Hal.
All except for Hal's (in)famous first mined block #78 also fall outside of the Patoshi lines.
Others have speculated about the block 78 anomaly...I will try to recap the highlights and add a potentially new theory for consideration.
If anyone else knows of any more early attributed blocks , please send them my way to add to the list. Thanks!
) and theymos were kind enough to share screen shots of their earliest transactions in past threads. I transcribed them all, resolved each funding block, and mapped them using satoshiblocks.info (see below). Sources:
Hal's early Mined blocks/accounts --> https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKjGZOoR.png&t=615&c=47KeLAG24YRF9w
(sorry just a newbie so I can't include actual screen shots
)appearing in Taras's wonderful 'Payment No. 1: A Closer Look at the Very First Bitcoin Transfer' thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346992.0
This thread also IDs block #9 attribution to Satoshi and identifies the likely reason block #9 was used to 'gift' bitcoins from Satoshi to Hal.
Do I get to be Satoshi too? I was off by only a few days... http://i.imgur.com/w57rtbs.png
I know first-hand that there were several different people who mined before January 2010. It's kind of funny that history I've lived through is being questioned...
Thankfully ALL of theymos mined blocks fall outside of the patoshi lines. 
I know first-hand that there were several different people who mined before January 2010. It's kind of funny that history I've lived through is being questioned...
All except for Hal's (in)famous first mined block #78 also fall outside of the Patoshi lines.
Others have speculated about the block 78 anomaly...I will try to recap the highlights and add a potentially new theory for consideration.
If anyone else knows of any more early attributed blocks , please send them my way to add to the list. Thanks!