It's interesting, but not quite a significant event, there could be many versions of the story that would lead to someone having to move bitcoins mined in 2009 and it would be be almost impossible for us to predict right. Although, it shows how far Bitcoin have come in just a number of years. At the first year of it's creation miners may have generated blocks for fun, with a free actually believing in the concept of the network. And 50
BTC then meant nothing, but not satoshis are worth significant amounts.
If these bitcoins were from the same year as bitcoin was created then most probably this is related Satoshi Nakamoto, but why they are moving this now?
It raises suspicion but it doesn't really tell anything to conclude that.
It does not tell anything? Probably but if you think of it in more practical way, how many people just after a months of bitcoin was created would be interested to it? I doubt it would be just a random guy on the internet
My suspicion is also this is one of the inherited btc of Hal's, @JayJuanGee might be right, it might be one of his heirs. Gonna get an update to this.
That is the most likely UNLIKELY scenario.
In other words so far I see a lot of people trying to explain this as a bit of a lark... or someone who does not know what they are doing really. Someone who found a lost key, or in this case a Finny heir.
Possible. But highly unlikely.
Since this is one of the very earliest miners of bitcoin (100% chance). Starting from that supposition the following can be derived:
- This is POSSIBLY Satoshi (them)himself. Could be something he mined on something other than his main rig. I do not know how Satoshiblocks works, but it is not ironclad that this would NOT be Satoshi, and in fact if Satoshi was to do something like this I think the chances of him picking a block he mined a "different" way would be highly likely.
- This is not Satoshi, but instead an early miner. Hal's hoard is likely. But his heir would almost
CERTAINLY be being advised by someone with enough knowledge to suggest the safest path forward to any coin movement.
- This is ONE block. So far it bears the likelyhood of being a flag, rather than someone who needs money. The person moving this is preparing to send some kind of message. We start to see dozens of other 50BTC moves from back there?? All bets off.
- This is a cryptographer/geek/cypherpunk from the mailing list. Nearing 100% likelyhood. The above scenarios are descendants of this idea. Even HF's heir is a proxy for that.
- It is HIGHLY unlikely that this is a block with keys owned by a person that has no other bitcoin. Again possible? Yes. likely? hell no.
So again.
Why are they doing this. It has to be meta. Has to be. (well... you know what I mean)