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0 pointsDennisP6y ago0 comments

Not if Satoshi's coins have never moved. A bitcoin address is a hash of a public key. The public key isn't revealed until the first time funds are transferred out of that address.

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esotericn6y ago

Nitpick: What you're calling "Satoshi's coins" were actually mined in transactions to pubkeys rather than to pubkey hashes.

Early Bitcoin transactions did not use addresses.

Example from block 1:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/0e3e2357e806b6cdb1f70b54c3...

You'll see at the bottom that the opcode is a PUSH / CHECKSIG rather than the later DUP / HASH160 / PUSH / EQUALVERIFY / CHECKSIG format.

So this isn't true. (blockchain.info derives an address but actually the pubkeys are right there in plain sight. Have at it!)

DennisPOP6y ago

Thanks, I had no idea!

RandomBacon6y ago

Okay, thanks!

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