I'am right with you. It's an open source project , the first "commiter" is really not important. It's just a bit obsess of my part, because of this mystery.
(Mining 1M Bitcoins , Motivation because is not spend this money, he is out of nothing with this project and good piece of code , after the success become he disappeared)

Yes right a bit of mystery , help to get popularity . I should do something else more constructive with my free time.