4 ms·
> He was the only one mining in the early days. This is untrue-- we know other people who mined in the first days. The way the initial released software worke
by nullc 7y ago
> He was the only one mining in the early days.
This is untrue-- we know other people who mined in the first days.
The way the initial released software worked, it wouldn't mine unless another peer was connected. So it's possible that there has never been a moment when there was only one party mining.
- chrismeller 7y agoI know nothing of the Bitcoin structure now or then, but there’s a logic flaw there... 1) At some point during development he would have absolutely been the only one mining because the code only existed on his machine. 2) Requiring that another peer be available doesn’t mean that both peers couldn’t be run by the same person, even if they were run with different sets of keys. A peer in this case is a software construct, not a physical one.
- nullc 7y ago> 1) At some point during development he would have absolutely been the only one mining because the code only existed on his machine. Block 1 was created about 7 after the software was publicly released. Whatever he did in development was thrown away, block 0 is an unspendable placeholder.
- nullc 7y agoerp. 7 hours.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]