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miner from the second week of the blockchain’s life says hi

A brand-new member of the BitcoinTalk boards shared a signature proving that he was concerned in mining Bitcoin (BTC) only one week after the community launched.

A Nov. 15 discussion board subject requested different customers to signal a message with the addresses that they mined their oldest blocks with and publish it. A consumer named “OneSignature” posted a signature made with an deal with attributed to a public key which was concerned in mining block 1018, only one week after Bitcoin was born.

Customers on the shape had been excited to see a consumer that was concerned for the reason that very early days of Bitcoin nonetheless be energetic on the boards the place a lot of its neighborhood nonetheless lives. A number of customers recommended that the consumer could even be Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator — himself.

A search utilizing open supply username footprinting software program Sherlock reveals a complete of 9 accounts utilizing the identical username because the BitcoinTalk consumer. After investigating every one among them, one which significantly stands out is a Twitter account.

The Twitter account in query makes use of “OneSignature” as its username and “Andy” as its public title, follows 28 accounts, is adopted by only one account and was created in October 2009. The accounts privateness settings conceal practically each data — together with tweets, followers and adopted accounts — however the profile picture provides just a few hints to the account proprietor’s curiosity in Bitcoin.

Not solely a picture studying “Don’t belief anybody” is one thing that crypto consultants would anticipate a Bitcoiner to have as their profile picture, however a reverse picture search reveals that the picture is rather more intently associated to the area. When searching for the picture supply, Google reveals outcomes from Twitter account @SatoshiPlus_ — a profile with a transparent cryptocurrency focus.

The OneSignature Twitter profile could also be utterly unrelated to the BitcoinTalk boards consumer, however the aforementioned hints make it appear seemingly that they’re certainly the identical individual. Different accounts discovered with that title is a now-inactive Canadian Chess.com account, a cosmetics-focused 2009 weblog, an unused WordPress weblog created in 2011.

A extra fascinating discover is a YouTube account apparently owned by a person all in favour of Chinese language music, canines and watches who discovered himself amid 2011’s United States — presumably San Francisco — Bay Space ice rain. The person — who in a single video was in firm of presumably Asian-language talking individuals in a house — has seen a few fascinating feedback seem below his video during the last 24 hours.

“Are you Satoshi?” is the query raised by YouTube consumer I Hodl in a remark posted below an 11-year previous video displaying Ice Rain within the aforementioned Bay Space. An analogous crypto-focused remark appeared below a video displaying a Chihuahua pet play struggle with a Shiba Inu, the canine race proven within the Doge meme that impressed Dogecoin (DOGE). I Hodl wrote a remark referencing Dogecoin clone Shiba Inu (SHIB):

“What are the odd[sic] of Satoshi additionally creator of SHIB.”

To this point the identification of BitcoinTalk’s OneSingature stays a thriller, and it might very nicely stay a secret without end.

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