Putting that statement in the genesis block is also proof that no bitcoins existed before January 3rd, 2009.
Indeed, so he was proving to everybody he didn't premine a ton of coins thus creating scamcoin.
Also fitting headline, banks will probably collapse again in due time
By the way satoshi did premine about 500 BTC. Those bitcoins are totally dwarfed by the bitcoins satoshi mined post-release.
). Now there may have been no other relevant newspapers headlines across the world that day, however he's changed the date from "January 3 2009" to the British form. To me this insists that the author was British. I know this is no revelation, i've just not look at it that deep before, but if one want to know the identity (or rule out anyone) they have to pass a Brit test. 
