However, it was never "exclusive" everyone knowing/understanding how to do it was always allowed to join and mine, directly from launch of the network, no? So I have a hard time calling that "premine"

RIP BITCOIN!

I thought this was known though? and no he didn't connect to himself lol "Satoshi Nakamoto" is at least two people. One who wrote the code, one who wrote the paper.

The premine framing misses the point. Satoshi mined early blocks when no one else was running nodes — that's not a rule exploit, it's bootstrapping. The real question isn't whether he took coins early, but whether the distribution mechanism was fair given the circumstances. Proof-of-work from gene...

Still cost him energy to mine though ... ?

Nice ragebait but until he moves the coins, or someone proves it was the CIA, the conception was organic