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Out of curiosity, how much did they personally sock away from BitCoin?

Was this done out of some ideological commitment, or just to get rich as the first movers?

Yesterday there was created topic questioning the initial amount mined by the founder, so see yourself, its not perfectly clear. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.0

Same with the reason behind creating this particular crypto-currency. Since the creator is not known to public we can only assume.