Isn't it surprising that an early Bitcoin adopter has "only" 216 Bitcoin? Didn't he join at a time where you'd be mining full blocks solo?
(One of his later tweets claimed that "it's basically all gone" or something like that, implying this wasn't just a small fraction of his total coins.)
People forget bitcoin wasn't worth anything for a long time. You take care of an asset worth millions very differently than an asset worth pennies and too much of a pain to transact for cash anyway.
No, that's factually wrong. In 2011 you would need to mine with at least a GPU, and a single one would barely produce 100 bitcoins in a year if not less.
(One of his later tweets claimed that "it's basically all gone" or something like that, implying this wasn't just a small fraction of his total coins.)