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by boomzilla 3975 days ago
Bitcoin newbie here. How do we know that's him?
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We know that the very first bitcoins in the blockchain are "his", and IIRC some other coins have been tracked as "his" based on being in the same wallet or wallets. There are a number of articles on this over the past years.

I say, "his", since we don't know who the creator is, could be a group of people, might not be a man.

> We know that the very first bitcoins in the blockchain are "his",

Technically, we do not know that, we can only assume it.

There is no evidence that the person or persons known as Satoshi have ever mined coins on the mainnet.