My pet theory is that all those bitcoins are lost forever, just Satoshi performance tuning the miner he'd hacked together with perl one night and letting it run

My pet theory is that all those bitcoins are lost forever, just Satoshi performance tuning the miner he'd hacked together with perl one night and letting it run for a few hours. Close terminal, poof, everything gone. Who cares, can mine more later. Bedtime! (disclaimer, I know nothing about bitcoin, there's likely 100 reasons why this makes no technical sense)