An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin – Bitcoin News

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On Nov. 15, 2022, a post was cre­at­ed on the forum web­site bitcointalk.org and the thread’s cre­ator asked peo­ple to share sig­na­tures tied to some of their old­est mined bit­coin blocks. 11 days lat­er, a new­ly cre­at­ed bitcointalk.org pro­file, called “Ones­ig­na­ture,” shared a signed mes­sage teth­ered to an extreme­ly old block reward cre­at­ed on Jan. 19, 2009. The key was asso­ci­at­ed with bit­coin block 1,018 which was cre­at­ed 16 days after Satoshi Nakamo­to launched the network.

Mysterious Individual Signs a Message Tied to a Block Reward Created on January 19, 2009

An unknown bitcointalk.org user called “Ones­ig­na­ture,” signed a mes­sage tied to bit­coin block 1,018, an extreme­ly old bit­coin block reward that was cre­at­ed on Jan. 19, 2009. The block sign­ing was dis­cov­ered by the own­er of bitcoin.org, the pseu­do­ny­mous char­ac­ter known as “Cobra.” “A user ‘Ones­ig­na­ture’ has appeared and post­ed the sig­na­ture for a key asso­ci­at­ed with block #1,018,” Cobra tweet­ed. “For con­text, there are prob­a­bly a hand­ful of peo­ple in the world who can sign with a Jan. 2009 key,” Cobra added.

An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
The signed mes­sage shared by Ones­ig­na­ture on Nov. 22, 2022.

The bitcointalk.org post shows the user Onesignature’s shared signed mes­sage was a bit­coin address that was first seen on Dec. 2, 2022. The BTC address “1E9Yw” has seen a few dust trans­ac­tions sent to the wal­let since the day it was first seen. The sig­na­ture (HCsBcgB+Wcm8kOGMH8IpNeg0H4gjCrlqwDf/GlSXphZGBYxm0QkKEPhh9DTJRp2IDNUhVr0FhP9qCqo2W0recNM=) is asso­ci­at­ed with the bit­coin address “1NChf.” The address held the block reward (1,018) in the wal­let up until June 14, 2011.

An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
Peo­ple can ver­i­fy Onesignature’s sig­na­ture or any sig­na­ture using Bitcoin.com’s Ver­i­fi­ca­tion Tool. 

Fur­ther­more, one user dis­cov­ered that the mined coins, trans­ferred in 2011, also had “pri­vate keys of address­es that mined ear­li­er than the above-men­tioned address.” The peo­ple in the post won­dered if the user Ones­ig­na­ture was actu­al­ly Satoshi Nakamo­to, but Cobra detailed on Twit­ter that the address was not a “Patoshi block,” a block asso­ci­at­ed with Bitcoin’s cre­ator, and remarked that it was “unlike­ly to be Satoshi.”

An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
The Twit­ter account “Ones­ig­na­ture” cre­at­ed in Octo­ber 2009 is set to pri­vate. Only fol­low­ers can read Onesignature’s tweets and the account only has one follower.

“While many peo­ple *could* have mined Bit­coin that ear­ly, the over­whelm­ing evi­dence sug­gests that bare­ly any­body did,” Cobra added. “Bit­coin was obscure, irrel­e­vant, and seen as a dumb idea, why install some ran­dom .exe?” In Cobra’s Twit­ter thread, the pseu­do­ny­mous whistle­blow­er known as “Fat­man” said the old address could have been pur­chased from some­one lat­er in time. Fat­man shared an old bitcointalk.org screen­shot that shows some­one not­ing that “many old keys have been sold or leaked.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, it was also dis­cov­ered that a Twit­ter account exists and it uses the name “@onesignature.” The Twit­ter account, also named “Andy,” was coin­ci­den­tal­ly cre­at­ed in Octo­ber 2009 and the account’s pro­file image says “don’t trust anyone.”

An Unknown Individual Signed a Message Associated With BTC Block 1,018, Reward Was Minted 16 Days After Satoshi Launched Bitcoin
Andy Greenberg’s arti­cle high­lights a “screen­shot of Hal Finney’s Bit­coin wal­let client, show­ing the first ever bit­coin trans­fer.” Some of the mined bit­coin blocks in the pic­ture were asso­ci­at­ed with the txid: “567a9a7f9191db644a09985fad113dd6ee770eac69454317430e694305be9c56,” which is also asso­ci­at­ed with the block 1,018 address.

In the bitcointalk.org thread, a user also not­ed that the signed address was asso­ci­at­ed with a num­ber of block rewards men­tioned and pho­tographed in a Forbes arti­cle writ­ten by Andy Green­berg. The arti­cle is about one of Bitcoin’s ear­li­est adopters, Hal Finney. Bitcointalk.org mem­bers also spec­u­lat­ed that the address was some­how asso­ci­at­ed with the now-deceased Bit­coin developer.

Reply­ing to Fat­man on Fri­day, Cobra said that if Ones­ig­na­ture did “pur­chase a Jan 2009 key, they are about to get swamped with mas­sive offers.” “Some­one is try­ing to make a bold state­ment,” Cobra added.

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Jamie Redman 

Jamie Red­man is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a finan­cial tech jour­nal­ist liv­ing in Flori­da. Red­man has been an active mem­ber of the cryp­tocur­ren­cy com­mu­ni­ty since 2011. He has a pas­sion for Bit­coin, open-source code, and decen­tral­ized appli­ca­tions. Since Sep­tem­ber 2015, Red­man has writ­ten more than 6,000 arti­cles for Bitcoin.com News about the dis­rup­tive pro­to­cols emerg­ing today.




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