An extensive onchain audit suggests with very high probability that the address was a consolidation address for a batch of genesis mining addresses which earned their (First Epoche) block subsidy of 50 #bitcoin. The timestamp information corresponds to a developmental phase where only Satoshi and Hal were known to be mining blocks.
You could conduct this audit yourself by analysing posts between Satoshi and Hal about mining and match the dates.
Here are a few links on mempool which are relevant to the audit.
Bitcoin Block 0: Genesis Block (2009) https://mempool.space/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
Block 78: Hal Fineys first Block (2009)
https://mempool.space/block/00000000a2886c95400fd3b263b9920af80b118b28fee5d2a162a18e4d9d8b2f
Address alleged managed now by Hal's family which recently moved some large consolidated amounts as well as 5BTC to Kraken.
https://mempool.space/address/37UKdGiS3WFhmrTdveBZEtghivLuQtmdKe
Some transactions happed around 2014 around the time of Hal's passing.
And here is where the paper trail leads back to:
https://mempool.space/address/1CEq15CvdwHZmkfpWxse1UDGBxLynQepTe
Don't trust! Verify!
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npub1dg…xlhuw
2024-09-25 09:16:24
in reply to nevent1q…jza2
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npub1dgmmpgehdg3cq0n7sumkux60wpmmgmn8zsexnjru0wgd6fj2fwws6xlhuwPublished at
2024-09-25 09:16:24Event JSON
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"content": "An extensive onchain audit suggests with very high probability that the address was a consolidation address for a batch of genesis mining addresses which earned their (First Epoche) block subsidy of 50 #bitcoin. The timestamp information corresponds to a developmental phase where only Satoshi and Hal were known to be mining blocks.\n\nYou could conduct this audit yourself by analysing posts between Satoshi and Hal about mining and match the dates.\n\nHere are a few links on mempool which are relevant to the audit.\n\nBitcoin Block 0: Genesis Block (2009) https://mempool.space/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f\n\nBlock 78: Hal Fineys first Block (2009)\nhttps://mempool.space/block/00000000a2886c95400fd3b263b9920af80b118b28fee5d2a162a18e4d9d8b2f\n\nAddress alleged managed now by Hal's family which recently moved some large consolidated amounts as well as 5BTC to Kraken.\n\nhttps://mempool.space/address/37UKdGiS3WFhmrTdveBZEtghivLuQtmdKe\n\nSome transactions happed around 2014 around the time of Hal's passing.\n\nAnd here is where the paper trail leads back to:\nhttps://mempool.space/address/1CEq15CvdwHZmkfpWxse1UDGBxLynQepTe\n\nDon't trust! Verify!\n\n\n\n\n",
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