I was reading about it the other day.
https://news.bitcoin.com/an-unknown-individual-signed-a-message-associated-with-btc-block-1018-reward-was-minted-16-days-after-satoshi-launched-bitcoin/Furthermore, one user discovered that the mined coins, transferred in 2011, also had private keys of addresses that mined earlier than the above-mentioned address. The people in the post wondered if the user Onesignature was actually Satoshi Nakamoto, but Cobra detailed on Twitter that the address was not a Patoshi block, a block associated with Bitcoins creator, and remarked that it was unlikely to be Satoshi.
While many people *could* have mined Bitcoin that early, the overwhelming evidence suggests that barely anybody did, Cobra added. Bitcoin was obscure, irrelevant, and seen as a dumb idea, why install some random .exe? In Cobras Twitter thread, the pseudonymous whistleblower known as Fatman said the old address could have been purchased from someone later in time. Fatman shared an old bitcointalk.org screenshot that shows someone noting that many old keys have been sold or leaked.
