Anonymous forum member shows off oldest Bitcoin signature from January 2009
After confirming that the signature is legitimate, a forum member questioned if OneSignature is inviting Satoshi
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Online forums are crucial to the origin of Bitcoin. The creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and early contributors came together to discuss and create Bitcoin on such forums. One of the oldest Bitcoin forums, bitcointalk.org, still holds the historical discussion around the creation of the Bitcoin payment system and logo.
A member of the online forum bitcointalk.org decided to post a question on the forum asking users to show off their oldest Bitcoins, seeking to identify miners from the early days of Bitcoin.
To everyone’s surprise, an unknown user posted a signature of a Bitcoin mined just a week after Bitcoin was launched in January 2009.
Making the situation more interesting, the account that posted the signature was created recently on November 26, 2022, under the pseudonym of OneSignature. After confirming that the signature is legitimate, a member of the forum questioned if OneSignature is inviting Satoshi. The address used by OneSignature had no balance.
OneSignature’s account was created recently, and its history shows no other activity on the forum, confirming that the account was created for the purpose of showing off the oldest signature of a Bitcoin known to date.
