murbul's comments

On: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

[murbul]

Block 9 reward payout address 12cbQ... was used in the transaction to Hal Finney later in block 170.

On: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

[murbul]

Signatures are unique to the message that's being signed, otherwise they'd be useless.

[amdavidson → murbul]

Signatures are only probably unique. Theoretically there can be collisions.

Granted, the likelihood that he inadvertently collided with a public transaction is astronomically small.

On: Satoshi Nakamoto moves his 6.5 yr old bitcoins

[murbul]

The genesis block is actually block 0, you're looking at block 1.

Incidentally, the genesis block reward is unspendable. It's not really known if that was intentional or a bug in the initial implementation, but the rule persists.

[lisper → murbul]

Oops, you're right. Here's the genesis block:

https://blockchain.info/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e...

On: Satoshi Nakamoto moves his 6.5 yr old bitcoins

[murbul]

They're definitely invalid transactions. The public keys and signatures do not match the address they're trying to spend from. Only blockchain.info failed to detect this minor detail.

[Natanael_L → murbul]

"minor"

As in "this plane has no wings" - "that's minor"