If you believe the tale of James Bilal Khalid Caan, a.k.a. Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary hoard of the first mined Bitcoin (BTC) is buried forever, in a crashed hard-drive residing in a landfill or already recycled. At least this is the rationale for why the coins of Satoshi were never moved from the initial addresses to which they were mined.
So the genie is out of the bottle, once again: the real Satoshi Nakamoto is not Dr. Craig Wright, and neither is he a close acquaintance of John McAfee. He is not Hal Finney. He is Pakistani national Bilal Khan, residing in the UK and working for the NHS.
Note that Bilal Khalid uses the widely recognized 980,000 BTC estimation, not bothering to give a more exact number of how many BTC he mined as Satoshi Nakamoto in the early days.
The crypto community was immediately skeptical of the revelation, calling it “Satoshi Nakamoto fan fiction”.
https://twitter.com/SatoshiNRH/status/1163545475661914115
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