Looking at the member list, it seems that there are many people who registered in the early days of Bitcoin, made a few posts, then disappeared days, weeks, or months later without a trace. I wonder what happened to these people? Many of them would have been mining multiple bitcoins per day on CPUs and GPUs or they might have bought several bitcoins at less than a dollar a piece. Some even had conversations with the great Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
Surely they must have heard about how enormous Bitcoin has become, and yet... their accounts haven't been touched since they left the forum years ago.
For example, this user joined in late 2010 and left in mid-2011:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/joe-1668
Another one made a lot of posts and then disappeared in mid-2011 - only to resurface again, make a single post to get some free ripples, then leave without a trace:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bruce-wagner-2033
And another one:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/rhorning-344
Take a look at some of the threads that Satoshi participated in or go to the member list and sort by date, and you will see many such accounts.
I wonder what happened to them? Does anyone know? Surely they must be whales now?
When you see a huge sell wall on an exchange, or someone making multiple 10+ BTC bets on a dice site, could it be them? When the world discovered Bitcoin and these early adopters suddenly found themselves sitting on something worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, why did so many of them decide to pack up and leave the community altogether?
