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murbul··on Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
Block 9 reward payout address 12cbQ... was used in the transaction to Hal Finney later in block 170.
murbul··on Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
Signatures are unique to the message that's being signed, otherwise they'd be useless.
murbul··on Satoshi Nakamoto moves his 6.5 yr old bitcoins
The genesis block is actually block 0, you're looking at block 1.

Incidentally, the genesis block reward is unspendable. It's not really known if that was intentional or a bug in the initial implementation, but the rule persists.

murbul··on Satoshi Nakamoto moves his 6.5 yr old bitcoins
They're definitely invalid transactions. The public keys and signatures do not match the address they're trying to spend from. Only blockchain.info failed to detect this minor detail.