If there was an event of such, it would have been in the news and it will not be something strange to the bitcoin community when asked about it. It must be all fun from beginning and all those that participated in the mining alongside satoshi will just be doing it for some other purpose like while away time, seeing it like a game between themselves on who will accurately solve the next puzzle before the other did. They wouldn’t have known bitcoin could have grown to this stage, but it’s all good that they kept up mining and many other miners came on board to took over and are now all inclusive and a hard one to crack when mining the next block into the blockchain.