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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no, the claim that Satoshi mined slower in order to keep the difficulty low is ridiculous. They could have mined far more blocks and thus earned FAR more btc by operation at their maximum