I'd be surprised if he has less than 50k. I mean there must have been a whole year there with less than 50 miners. If he even kept 1/50th of a years worth and no others that's 50k.

For those who don't realize, difficulty was 1. When I came along it was jumping from 45 to 210 and it stayed reasonable to solo mine on a CPU for a while after than. Bitcoin had already been chugging along for about 18 months at that point.

That's almost a whole year of coins. If he never mined hardcore, which I really doubt he did, and if even a few people mined as much as him in the first year it's got to be at most 1/5th of that.

What's with that cluster of ~50k BTC addresses all marked "31337" sitting around more or less quietly?

If they all belonged to the same entity that would amount to some ~250k.

EDIT: actually way more than that now that I checked the latest stats.

iirc that was a fun  way of the bitcoinica hackers to infect a shitload of adresses with their taint coint.

There was a story a few days ago where someone had checked and 2 million worth of newly mined Bitcoins have never been spent. This does not necessarily mean they are all owned by Satoshi. And I doubt that Satoshi is even a real person.

I think that was just because he wanted as many normal people to be able to mine as long as possible.

Also seems a selfish thing for a CPU miner to ask, i kid, i kid, I'm in the satoshi cult.

For you maybe. For others it would just confirm their views that it was a scam all along.

It's more of a scam if it turns out everything will be the same as ever before: good old government holding the biggest assets regulating global markets. *yawn*

If Satoshi had STARTED with ALL the coins it still wouldn't be as bad as government. They get endless multiples of all of it at will. It's not just a rigged start with them, the rules are rigged by them too.

But anyway, anything Satoshi has he got by playing by the same rules as all of us.