Not only Satoshi mined, others did people of the likes of Hal Finney , Laszlo and GameKyuubi and many other old bitcoin supporters. At that time mining bitcoins required very little computational power and mining rewards were up to 50 bitcoins per block.

The fact is earliest miners mined bitcoin and ran nodes not because they knew bitcoin will be this big today but because the saw it as FUN. It was simply letting you computer play around with some hashes till a valid one was found and them you get some bitcoins as a reward.

the first few days bitcoins blockchain was not producing ~144 blocks a day. so it technically was not continually creating the blockchain non stop

As at that time, how many people know about Bitcoin, as the usage is few and near active, mining in the network is not required for a running nods all the time, since the network only verify transactions only when their are sent so why and how then will Bitcoin that only nearly Satoshi knows about will be left inactive when he is not online.


Bitcoin have a traceable history and almost all it active adaptors as at that time where all miners since mining and receiving rewards were the only notable activities in the Bitcoin Blockchain that time.

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.

That wont happen, if all current miners stop, it means that the hashrate will go down drastically that it can be mine again using GPU, to cheap GPU, and maybe to CPU again. So all those "still bitcoiners" will probably mine again bitcoin on their computers until hash rate grows again and difficulty soars and mining requires again a stronger asic to mine, it's just a cycle, it wont stop.

Was Satoshi a greedy miner?
The Return of the Deniers and the Revenge of Patoshi
Satoshi ‘s Fortune: a more accurate figure. More accurate but not accurate, it's estimation only.

Satoshi Nakamoto coded Bitcoin protocol, mined the Bitcoin genesis block and early blocks but then we have Hal Finney, who run Bitcoin Core, mined Bitcoin and experienced a first peer to peer transaction on chain with Satoshi Nakamoto too.

Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
Hal, running Bitcoin Core on 11 January 2009. It's 8 days after the Bitcoin genesis block on 3 January 2009.
Hal Finney was not Satoshi Nakamoto.

I don't think Satoshi's the only person that was mining when bitcoin was released. They had cohorts and companions who he gave access to mine for testing purposes such as those listed by Mia Chloe, and furthermore, it was not through mining that he was able to create the blockchain metaphorically speaking, it was through people holding it one after another, until such a time occurred where everyone just agreed bitcoin's this valuable (which it is), and made mining the gold mine that it is now.

As a bonus, I don't think bitcoin's gonna die soon as everyone stopped mining, even if there comes a time where people just got tired of mining and stopped altogether even before all bitcoins are gathered. We have a lot of coins in circulations, approximately 3/4ths if I'm not mistaken, we can cycle that amongst ourselves and effectively create an economy which will definitely diminish bitcoin's monetary value, but at the very least it would make bitcoin a full-fledged currency that will stand the tests of time, so long as there's internet of course.