Fascinating blog post about the bootstrapping of Bitcoin and how Satoshi purposely refrained from mining at max hashrate to keep the playing field level, as evidenced by analysis of the “Patoshi pattern” of blocks.

Fascinating blog post about the bootstrapping of Bitcoin and how Satoshi purposely refrained from mining at max hashrate to keep the playing field level, as evidenced by analysis of the “Patoshi pattern” of blocks.

https://blog.lopp.net/was-satoshi-a-greedy-miner/

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Interesting article. I was especially interested in the timestamps, because looked into it earlier this year. I understand why he came to the conclusion that it is the Pacific Time Zone. It was one of my first thought too, but not any more.

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What made you change your mind, and what time zone do you think Satoshi was in?

MST. I did a deep dive in possible locations and I checked the timestamps in more details.