[MatthewCampbell]

> Unfortunately, due to a problem also present in the first public version of Bitcoin, Satoshi could never spend the money from that transaction.

What evidence suggests that this was unintentional? It offers a sense of fairness and objectivity from the originator, without generalizing the concept of a transactionless block or requiring any special logic to enforce it.

[crecker]

Great question. I can't say this was intentional or not. To people interested, it was only one line of code missing: he ""forgot"" to include the first transaction to the mapTransactions.