
On November 15, 2022, a post was created on the forum website bitcointalk.org in which the creator of the thread asked people to share signatures associated with some of the oldest Bitcoin blocks mined. rice field. Eleven days later, a newly created bitcointalk.org profile called Onesignature shared a signed message linked to a very old block reward created on January 19th, 2009. The key was associated with Bitcoin block 1,018 created 16 days later. Satoshi Nakamoto launched the network.
A mysterious person signs a message tied to block rewards created on January 19, 2009
An unknown bitcointalk.org user called “one signature,” signed the message It is associated with Bitcoin Block 1,018, a very old Bitcoin block reward created on January 19, 2009. The block signature was discovered by the owner of bitcoin.org, a pseudonymous character known as “Cobra”. User ‘Onesignature’ came up and posted the signature of the key associated with block #1,018, he tweeted Cobra. “For context, there are probably only a handful of people in the world who can sign the January 2009 key,” Cobra said. Added.

A post on bitcointalk.org has a shared signed message for user Onesignature bitcoin address First seen on December 2, 2022. Bitcoin Address ‘1E9Yw’ has seen several dust transactions sent to the wallet since the date it was first seen. The signature (HCsBcgB+Wcm8kOGMH8IpNeg0H4gjCrlqwDf/GlSXphZGBYxm0QkKEPhh9DTJRp2IDNUhVr0FhP9qCqo2W0recNM=) is a bitcoin address “1N ChfThis address held block rewards (1,018) in its wallet until June 14, 2011.

Additionally, one user discovered that a mined coin transferred in 2011 also contained “the private key of an address that was mined prior to the address above.” The poster wondered if the Onesignature was actually Satoshi Nakamoto, but Cobra said on Twitter that the address is a block associated with the Bitcoin creator, “Patoshi he is a block.” He explained in detail that it was not, and said, “It is unlikely that it is Satoshi.”

Many people could have mined bitcoin this quickly, but the overwhelming evidence suggests that almost no one did, Cobra said. Added“Bitcoin was seen as an obscure, irrelevant and silly idea. Why install random .exe?” the person Said The old address may have been purchased by someone later. Fatman shares an old screenshot from bitcointalk.org, showing someone pointing out that “many old keys have been sold or leaked.”
We also found that a Twitter account exists and uses the name “”.@onesignatureA Twitter account named “Andy” was created by accident in October 2009, with the account’s profile picture reading “Trust no one.”

In the bitcointalk.org thread, a user also mentioned that the signed address was associated with numerous block rewards. mentioned Taken in a Forbes article written by Andy Greenberg. This article is about his Hal Finney, one of Bitcoin’s early adopters. Bitcointalk.org members also speculate that the address is somehow associated with the now-deceased Bitcoin developer.
Cobra replies to Fatman on Friday Said Onesignature says, “If you buy a January 2009 key, you’re about to be overwhelmed with massive offers.” ‘Someone is about to make a bold statement’ Cobra Added.
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