Wait, so the guy shuffling around 10,000s of BTC might actually be Satoshi?
Shuffling around 10,000's of BTC? Not sure what you mean, but there hasn't been any indication that any of the bitcoins that are likely to belong to Satoshi from the early months of Bitcoin have been moved.
Does our fabled mystery man still reveal himself via transactions?
Not that anyone can confirm as far as I've heard.
And is Satoshi currently still using the network?
Possibly. There really isn't any way to know unless he spends some of the coins that have a high probability of belonging to him.
Could be track him?
Not as long as he is careful.
SOMEONE START A THREAD DEVOTED TO THIS NOW!
Why?
On a different topic however, I can see Satoshi having a large amount of coins, but I in no way think that it is a premine.
It's not.
There is no way Bitcoin would be at $600 with another 1.5 million coins on top of the 21 million.
The possibly 1.5 million BTC that he might own are part of the 21 million BTC that will ever be created, not "in addition to".
Focusing mainly on that last part, I know it's part of, not in addition too. In my statement, I am saying there wouldn't be another 1.5 million coins premined IN ADDITION TO the limited 21 million and the exchange rate would remain the same.
Are they on blockchain.info or implemented in some kind of code in the protocol?
Do they exist?
Can I see them?
They are in the blockchain, just like ALL bitcoins. Bitcoins don't exist other than as an unspent output in the blockchain.
You can use any block explorer to see transactions and block rewards.
The difficult part is determining which ones belong to Satoshi, and which ones belong to other people.
There has been some analysis based on knowledge about what the bitcoin community, software, and economy was like during the first year of its existence. This analysis has resulted in several people coming to the conclusion that there is a significant sum of bitcoins that can be assumed with relative confidence to have been mined by Satoshi.
For an example of the analysis, see here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/chain-archaeology-answers-from-the-early-blockchain-507458Well block reward is fix.. of 25 btc .. with some fees..
The block reward is not 100% fixed. A little while ago, it was 50 BTC/block, not the 25 we have currently. And in 2016, I believe, even that will be halved into 12.5 BTC/block and so on, until the final bitcoin is mined in 2140. That's still a log while off. The mining rate halves even 4 years was it? So yeah, 2016, then 2020, then 2024, and so on. It'll become really small amounts, however. Trust me. Just wait and you'll see.
