Are these coins you created???
No they were created by the very first developers to either pseudo-anon release Bitcoin "forks" or pre-Bitcoin precursors. There's more to Bitcoin's Net value than its blockchain or its coins. If you think about all the value in protocols that "color" satoshis or provide a "layer two" that the Bitcoin Core software/nodes don't allow to be relayed or acknowledged - Bitcoin is worth much more because of the value some of these merge mined coins have essentially funded it with, or left on its chain for better/more advanced nodes and software to relay the true value in things on-chain or in the networks that connect to Bitcoin - the network. A lot of value on chain is unreadable because the most widely used software it BTC's Bitcoin Core. And they have done very strict control so as to roll out features according to a very very well planned schedule. Which I commend. The best is yet to come even if devs deny it. Don't trust anyone. Verify yourself. In more ways than one. For me I constantly challenge what I find true, but all I ever find are partial truths - or truths enough to trace a path that is very real - and those paths paint a map of how this all began and how it could, in theory (I'm never going to publish a theory for the M1-M2-M3 and whatever else ends up here) could end up being a result of all this Open Source work.
Follow me on Twitter I share as much as I can there on what I find in history you won't see on mainstream media but yet, it exists. That's the beauty of Open Source development in this project as well as archival nodes. To me the web is a library. Why not read as much as possible if you don't understand something. Keep trying until you do?
https://twitter.com/MasterGrimaldi
Proof of my identities across sites on Keybase where I am on team #devcoins (I am part of the A-Team for Devcoin Project (DVC is our coin, but we have tokenized it on Stellar in multiple forms and even issued it as an asset on a NXT clone known as Horizon):
https://keybase.io/satoshi0x
I go by satoshi0x on keybase, discord, and other sites. It's also my name in the Devcoin A-Team on-going shares CSV file that distributes shares for the devs who work on the project. 1 share payout is 45,000 devcoins out of a block reward with 5,000 going to miners in the same transaction. That repeats round robin until 4,000 blocks are up and then another round starts. In that way Devcoin has been described as a for-profit like Benefit Corporation with legal protections similar to a non-profit but allowing us to fund other projects (kickstart them) also using our own cryptocurrency called devcoins (DVC).
https://github.com/devcoin/accounting/blob/master/account_114.csv#L29
not bad for free mining.