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6 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 4 Dec 2022
I'm no bitcoin historian, but if this was mined a week after inception of bitcoin, it would have to be Satoshi Nakamoto or Hal Finney, and Hal Finney is dead. I know there were others in the forum, but I thought there were only two mining that early. I'm sure more knowledgeable people are taking a look now.
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351 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 4 Dec 2022
The whole point of the famous genesis block quote was to prove that everyone has been given an equal opportunity even from day zero to mine Bitcoin.
And Bitcoin was announced publicly on what was at the time one of the most active cryptography/cypherpunk mailing lists. It got a lot of attention in that community and we have every reason to think there were quite a few early miners.
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8 sats \ 3 replies \ @ama OP 4 Dec 2022
Satoshi's paper had been published earlier and some people could've been lurking around the forum without participating, so I think that address could be owned someone totally unknown.
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 4 Dec 2022
Right, there were several cypherpunks on the mailing lists.
And don't underestimate cryptographers from academic circles in the early days - Satoshi themselves were from a university context which you can see through the double spaces in the Whitepaper.
Also there was the larger underground cyber scene from the very beginning. Not unlikely that one of them tried it out
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 4 Dec 2022
Do you know if there's a way to determine how many computers were mining back then based on hash rate or by other means?
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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama OP 4 Dec 2022
I don't think there is any way to figure that out from the blockchain data itself, and I have no idea if someone kept a log of connected peers or something like that, but I guess it could've been well possible.
Ask Satoshi, he probably did it. LOL
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Wil 4 Dec 2022
Always watching from a distance
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kaffi 5 Dec 2022
man If I were that person I would stop showing off. Why would you want to put a target on your back like that. like how hes been connected to a twitter account how hhard would it be to trace a random twitter account to a device or IP that created it, or atleast area.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 4 Dec 2022
According to the book Digital Gold, bitcoin software became available for download on 1/10/09. The ip records indicated only Hal Finney's computer and Satoshi's 2 computers with the same ip address that date. Finney mined 50 bitcoin that first day!
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @01xCc 4 Dec 2022
что бы это значило? если сатоши сам майнил в 2009...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @02e524ccde 4 Dec 2022 freebie
Ja neznaju :)
(: I don't know