We don't know how many coins Satoshi mined. There have been educated guesses, but there is no definitive proof.

The number of 1 million coins that you often see attributed to Satoshi is based on the "Patoshi pattern". In simple terms, there are around 22 thousand early mined blocks which follow a specific pattern of incrementing their ExtraNonce field, and it is thought that these blocks were all mined by a single entity, which could only be Satoshi. For an in depth look at this argument, see the following blog post: https://bitslog.com/2019/04/16/the-return-of-the-deniers-and-the-revenge-of-patoshi/

There's just really not knowing exactly how much he has in total. We are only relying on block data on the early years of bitcoin and where these coins went and how were they distributed. It's not just Satoshi who was mining on the wee days of bitcoin, as there are others who became curious and started hashing on their own.

o_e_l_e_o's  link is actually very informative on where these guesstimates came from. It explains how most people came up with the 1 million figure right now, though again even the Patoshi pattern itself isn't really reliable as there could be many more things that Satoshi tweaked in order to hide his trails--and his coins--even further.

The patoshi pattern, that o_e_l_e_o referred to,  is a "proof" that Satoshi mined at least about 1M bitcoins with the same machine.

Probably he mined more with other machines, who knows. What we do know, is that he has not touched any of the million coins, and probably newer will.

My guess is that he/she destroyed the private keys to those addresses, because he wanted to distribute the bitcoins fairly among people, and he probably thought that if he takes million coins to himself, people would think it "unfair" and it could work against bitcoin in the long run.
Or prevent bitcoin becoming popular. 

Although I agree that it is unlikely Satoshi will ever move his coins, and it becomes less likely as time goes on, I would disagree with the quoted statement. I think it is unlikely that Satoshi destroyed those private keys given his previous statements on such a matter:

Literally in the first reply.

No one knows the amount of BTC does Satoshi's holding but one thing for sure he is holding a huge amount of bitcoin, he is the one who made it so basically he has he is holding it, no one knows the story of Satoshi so no one know how much bitcoin he has. Satoshi is a very private person, he keeps himself a secret for many people because of the things he has done, there are many people who are idolizing him because of what he has done for the community, just like me I really admired him because of what have done, I really want to give thanks on him.
Indeed, we don't have an idea even for the normal person who is holding bitcoin,  what more to the person who made it. No one will tell how much money they are holding.

Ofcourse. Unfortunately the 1 million btc theory may have been regarded as fact by many or made to sound like fact by some.
I think it should always be seen as mere speculation or theory until something hard-to-contest is presented as proof... even at that, they don't just become true until proven to be really true.

I'm not actually sure about that. Satoshi's thoughts on best practices don't really address what he planned to do with his bitcoins. This quote always makes me wonder:


I wouldn't be surprised if those bitcoins are sitting in a bricked wallet. I always thought his intent was to donate that value to the Bitcoin community.

This is very interesting question, unfortunately without reliable answer. Satoshi is for sure one very rich person, no doubt, but my question is what is his intention with so many coins in his pocket?  Influencing market prices is only one option. What do you think guys?

Why do you care? Are you scared he might sometime dump his holdings?

This greed some people have is so annoying. Like, if he is holding his coins (or forgot them) and will never use them again, consider them a donation for everyone as he said himself. If he ever dumps them all, consider it another positive aspect as more than probably a million BTC would be redistributed, hence wealth inequality decreases.

Any way you take it, it's a positive thing imo. But why do people care at all and hope so much that he doesn't have a single coin anymore? Do they deserve theirs more than he deserves his?