I think you are very old in this system, if you had recieved 1 Bitcoin or more instead of this  BTC0.0001, you would have gotten a reasonable figure, but I guess that time this amount was just a dust. You never thought that it will amount to anything in that wallet. As for me I had my first Bitcoin wallet around 2020 which is about 6 years ago. I never started Bitcoin early and I didn't have any Bitcoin inside. And the worst is that I even Lost access to it. Not until I had another one. I will not disclose the amount I have inside for security reasons.

My first transactions are from 2014/15 and like many back then they were related to faucets. I don't know if anyone would actually sign a message from such an old address, because like the OP, probably no one feels too comfortable publicly presenting such information. I know that I have stored my old BTC wallet somewhere, but it would take me some time to find it.

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It's not just about the ranking system, it's also about someone like this hero having a good reason to post on the forum. Look at the interesting statistics, within which you can find many more heroes of the same value.

My first Bitcoin wallet was from Blockchain.com then known as Blockchain.info. I knew nothing about self-custody them and I don't even remember the address though what attracted me to Bitcoin was a ponzi scheme from one South African promising that all participant was going to get rich. I got nothing from it and thought the whole Bitcoin thing was a scam. I did a little research about it and found this forum. The rest they say is history.

I hope you know you can't sign nothing with a Blockchain.info address?

I did but I just can't prove it anymore because that first wallet got compromised, it was a coinomi wallet, people who are older in this space should know that name "coinomi".

I had some Bitcoin and Ethereum on this wallet at the time, DCA some and spent some but one good day something evil happened, my wallet got drained and I couldn't do anything about it.

I ended up abandoning the wallet after I witnessed what happened, it was a devastating moment for me but I knew that I must have done something wrong without even realising, unfortunately I can't sign to prove it.

I have like from 2016 transactions but i cant sign it since its from a local exchange where i came from or most newbies comes from (exchange as a wallet).
My owned wallet address transaction with mnemonic phrase where on mid 2017 and i can still sign it this date if i may.

Friends tend to stop being friends when there's a financial component to the relationship. A prime example is a joint business, after which friends became enemies. Bitcoin also has a financial component, which can cause discord with friends (if a friend wants to get their hands on your bitcoin), so it's prudent to keep your assets quiet (even with friends) and especially not to try to prove your ownership of bitcoin using past transactions (because to the openness of the blockchain, it's easy to track your wallets and determine the approximate amount of your assets).

You're asking in this thread whether users are willing to prove their earliest ownership of bitcoin, but you're not willing to do so yourself. Of course, if the bitcoin address is active (in use), no one will publish this information. Also, even if the address isn't in use, it could be transferred to other wallets. Therefore, it's best not to post this kind of information in a public space like a forum.

2011? I didn't even know about bitcoin existed back then. My first BTC-address (with a balance) was received in 2017, but I've no longer had access to that wallet since then. Therefore, it can be assumed that I am not able to prove this.

That was why I had it as 2 separate questions.
How old? and Would you sign?

I actually did a search on the 2010 address and it does not show here reddit anyplace except a couple of block explorers.
The 2011 does not either, but since it was for such a small amount and empty I would if someone pushed the issue for a good reason.

Was more of a who would for what reason then actually doing it.

-Dave

Those are from somewhere around 2013 i guess, but i wouldn't connect any of my old accounts to any pseudonyms i regularly use. Even though no one is probably interested, and i haven't done anything shady, i have learned to be paranoid, because what's seen as open source or privacy activism now could be labeled as terrorism in the future.

So i am trying to avoid giving amount data in public about my wallets to some AI in the future that can use all the data to parse and connect wallets to IDs and possible to identities. I can't cancel that i have done that in the past, but less data i openly disclose it in the public, the better i feel about it.

I really can’t remember when I first had or accumulated my first bitcoin and maybe the main reason why I forgot about it was because I miss placed my seed phrase and lost my first bitcoin because I didn’t see bitcoin as something use I just accumulated it because some of my friends did same and not because i was really interested in bitcoin back then, when I knew about bitcoin I didn’t take it that seriously and everything I was doing with bitcoin then was not actually something important to me, I regret not taking bitcoin seriously back then and I really don’t like talking about my past experience with bitcoin because I regret everything that happened back then.
Those that has been involved in bitcoin and took it serious back then are very lucky and patient, you guys should enjoy your rewards.