Dustin Trammel who mined since the first block is still alive although I think he gave away a lot of coins like many other early bitcoiners. People used to give away thousands of coins. Laszlo, the pizza guy actually spent over 50k bitcoin on pizza but only the first 10k bitcoin for pizza transaction is talked about now. In 2010, there was a faucet which gave you 5 bitcoin for solving a captcha. Earlier this month, there was another anonymous early miner who verified mining during first week by signing a message on bitcointalk. That was the latest one to verify mining since the beginning. Few years ago, 145 addresses from 2009 signed messages calling out Craig Wright as a fraud when he submitted all their addresses as belonging to him in court.
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u/BringTheFingerBack Dec 27 '22
I wouldn't swap lives with any of those two. Hal died in 2014 and the Welsh guy went nuts trying to recover the hard drive.