Exactly. It can just be very early adopters of bitcoin, just like the guy who bought one pizza for like 2000 Bitcoins back in 2012, if i remember correctly.
LOL,
10,000 if
I'm not mistaken, but it's been a while since I've read that classic thread. If I were that guy, I'd be having some serious regrets today, though I'm sure such a transaction seemed perfectly sane at the time and he's probably rich now anyway.
Satoshi didn't sell his coins. Obviously there's been a huge amount of selling going on in the past few days, but this is bitcoin (remember?). Volatility goes with the territory, which is something apparently people are forgetting--or, in the case of newbies, are just figuring out the hard way. Bitcoin is one of the riskiest assets in existence, which is why it's not a safe haven for investors fleeing the stock market or real estate market, or whatever else.
If you believe in bitcoin's future, you should see the current situation as a fire-sale opportunity to get more coins cheap. If only I had the money to spare. *sigh* Story of my life.