I know that in the genesis block, Satoshi Nakamoto got 50 bitcoin's and there are certain rumors that the first transaction destinations, were are also to his other wallet's, but if he never spent any of the hardcoded bitcoin's and assuming every hardcoded bitcoin awarded/premined wasn't sent how did people outside of Satoshi nakamoto ring of influence manage to mine blocks(if there wasn't no transactions)?
Also does any premine/early mine involve "fake transactions" in order to award coins to miners? Im considering doing a small video for friends so i need to get facts right.