I wonder how much energy and computer power it would take to mine 1.1m Bitcoins and no one noticed?
Very little for the early adopters.
I “mined” about 60 bitcoins using my work computer at night early on.
Sadly sold most of them when cheap, but still have 21.
In the beginning mining was very easy and the creator probably made them in a few days on a home PC as test.
They haven’t been touched since. IMO the key for these coins is likely lost or deleted out of principle. People say now it’s some CIA conspiracy but back then not even the creator expected their future value to go so high. It took YEARS just for one BTC to reach $1