- On November 15, in a post on the bitcointalk.org photo, a user known as Casinotester0001 asked “Who has/had the oldest Bitcoin mined?”
- The user known as “OneSignature” shared a signed message linked to a block reward which was created on January 19, 2009, that is, 13 years ago.
- This account has been associated with Hal Finney, a software developer known for being the first person to run Bitcoin software after Satoshi Nakamoto and was a key developer during the first year of Bitcoin’s life.
The world sometimes becomes a place full of mysteries which, like the Philosopher’s Stone in Harry Potter, are shown only to those who want to get the Stone, but not use it.
This is usually the case with things in everyday life, that no matter how hard we search and search, they do not appear, but when we are engaged in locating another object, one of the previously searched for appears before us as if by magic.
Something similar has happened in the world of digital assets, since while the current context is affected by the bearish period, known as crypto winter and the collateral effects left by the disappearance of the Terra Labs project, the bankruptcy of FTX and the possible frauds by its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, some completely random, and perhaps happy events happening at the same time.
Block 1018 is signed by “OneSignature”
On November 15, in a post on the bitcointalk.org photo, a user known as casinotester0001 I ask “Who has/had the oldest Bitcoin mined?”. The publication had various reactions, but the one that drew the most attention was the response from the user Onesignauture.
Eleven days after the question was asked, the user known as “OneSignature” shared a signed message linked to a block reward which was created on January 19, 2009, that is, 13 years ago.
While it may be surprising that something dating back to the early days of Bitcoin should come to light, the most remarkable thing was not that, but that, moreover, it was related to bitcoin block 1,018, which was created no more and no less than 16 days after Satoshi Nakamoto launched the community.
This signed message belongs to an authentic signature linked to the 2009 address “1NChf” or block 1018, according to the Bitcoin.com verification tool and an Electrum wallet.
This publication drew so much attention that “Cobra”, the owner of bitcoin.org, posted on his Twitter account that a user with a signature associated with block #101 had appeared, pointing out that there was a very small group of people who can sign with a key as of January 2009.
Are you Satoshi?
The relevance of this fact lies in the fact that block 1018, as well as the bitcoin address “1NChf” are strongly linked to the first Bitcoin transaction in which 10 Bitcoins were sent from the creator of the cryptocurrency, Satoshi Nakamoto, to Hal Finney, a software developer known for being the first person to run Bitcoin software after Satoshi Nakamoto and was a key developer during the first year of the cryptocurrency’s life.
Thus, the first transaction was for 10 Bitcoins, issued on January 12, 2009, which was confirmed at block 170. Likewise, Satoshi Nakamoto sent four more transactions from block 9. Two transfers for 10 Bitcoins and two transactions that sent a single BTC each.
The user Casinotester0001 also shared a screenshot in which you can see several rewards received at this address that correspond to January 10 to 16, 2009, which corresponds to the article published by Andy Greenbergtitled “Nakamoto’s Neighbor: My Search for the Bitcoin Creator Led to a Crippled Crypto Genius” in which he talks about Finney.
Who is behind OneSignature?
While the transactions related to the shared address are associated with Hal Finney, other speculation points to someone else acquiring the 1NChf address and block 1018 at a later date.
It is well known that crypto asset enthusiasts have taken to the task of looking for old addresses to acquire, likewise such requests have surfaced on Reddit and bitcointalk.org.
However, one option or the other, the address of 1NChf and block 1018 is associated with some really relevant transactions and mined blocks that, there is a high possibility that they are related to Finney.
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