https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fortune-of-satosh... The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius I wonbt discuss anything in this post. Ibm tired of discussing technical things with people with skewed opinions and monetary interest. Ibve talked enough in the Bitcointalk forum about Satoshi. Some people screamed at me. But a picture is worth a thousand words. And I will show pictures that everyone can replicate. Please forgive me for the awful image design. The graphs were made by a new block chain analysis technique I tested that consist on tracking the ExtraNonce fields in the coinbase field of the coinbase transaction, which is the one that creates bitcoins. As far as I know, is hasnbt been done before. In the following graphs each dot is the creation of 50 BTC. I have only analyzed and printed graphs from block 0 upto block 36288. I wonder what will I get when I process the remaining three years. The extraNonce fields increments every time the nonce fields (which is 32 bits) overflows, so itbs a slow realtime clock, until the application is restarted, in which case it goes back to 1. Note the X-Axis in the graphs is not time (as itbs said on the graph). Itbs the block number (thatbs a mistake). I donbt think there is a moral obligation not to publish this information since itbs already on public domain (the blockchain). Also Satoshi was completely aware of the poor anonymization capabilities of Bitcoin (a trade-off for performance and reduced bandwidth). Nevertheless, this lost of privacy could have been absent if random ExtraNonces had been used instead of incremental ones. So I could be thought as a Bitcoin privacy vulnerability for the miners. Disclaimer: I canbt assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from block 1, and with the same performance as the genesis block. It can be identified by constant slope segments that occasionally restart. Also this entity is the only entity that has shown complete trust in Bitcoin, since it hasnbt spend any coins (as last as the eye can see). I estimate at eyesight that Satoshi fortune is around 1M Bitcoins, or 100M USD at current exchange rate. Ibm sure there will be plenty of people that will carefully analyze the source data set and come up with the exact figure, which will be very close, but nevertheless they will scream at me again.
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Eugen Leitl