Though, it is interesting to see people here who have different theories and perspectives about what could be going on with that address, I am not buying it is Satoshi getting change on his original address... He is intelligent enough not to allow people to get clues of his finances, it is more likely this is just the result of some scheme of proof of burn.
Not sure what you mean by "original address" because to my knowledge Satoshi didn't use public addresses as coinbases or transaction outputs. The Genesis block coinbase transaction of type P2PK had a public key as transaction output and that is technically no public address.
Of course, with the private key of the Genesis block you can move coins "donated" to the public key and any coins on derivable public address(es), of which the most popular is the legacy P2PKH public address 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.
Anyways, it is weird to see which amounts of life changins amounts of money getting burned, considering how much hardship there is nowadays on this world.
It's weird, indeed, see below for the needed update of my table.
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Yep, blows my mind, too, and one of the reasons why I started this topic. We have no evidence that Satoshi could be gone from this world, so it makes no sense to me to speculate on this, but I agree that it's not likely he would ever spend any spendable coins "on" the Genesis block. He'll likely not want to spoil his immaculate anonymity if he's still living (wish him health and all the best)!
2048 0.04882812 ----- there are rounding issues not sure how they get handled
There's no rounding issue because the block subsidy is halved by a bit shift of a binary integer value. Halving an odd integer value by bit shift of its binary representation causes no issue at all. It's only we thinking with fractional bitcoin numbers to see an issue where none is.
So right now the genesis block with over 100 coins could reseed rewards for all of 2069 and boost block reward from
The initial Genesis block's subsidy of 50
BTC is unspendable because it is not in the UTXO set (not sure if deliberately or by fault of Satoshi). Not even Satoshi and if a private key exists for the Genesis block's public key could spend those if he would ever want to.
Excuse me being pedantic.
This might be fixable but hasn't been done so far and I don't expect it to be ever fixed (if possible, I don't know, it's all code only).
I don't like the idea of confiscating and repurposing dormant coins. And I think this topic highlights also that I don't like the idea to deliberately take coins out of circulation by sending them to a public key or public address that very very likely will never be moved again. It's of course not me to decide what other people do with their coins.
Haha, speaking of which, yesterday two new "donations" came in.
Past March 14
th, 2025 large
equal/over 500k sats transfers to Genesis block descriptor:
Current balance at time of this post according to
combo(PubKey of Genesis block's coinbase) descriptor, including the unspendable 50
BTC of coinbase tx: 104.52261670
BTC (includes 1,092sat pending confirmation, the difference to previous post's value and newcomer transaction are smaller dust wastes and possibly a few larger ones or whatever their purpose is).
This may differ slightly from what mempool.space or bitcoindata.science displays because the combo() descriptorsee below accounts for all address types (except Taproot, IIRC).combo(04678afdb0fe5548271967f1a67130b7105cd6a828e03909a67962e0ea1f61deb649f6bc3f4cef38c4f35504e51ec112de5c384df7ba0b8d578a4c702b6bf11d5f)#gvgcz9wt
