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It wasn't until over a year later (July 2010) that the first block was likely mined using GPUs. Satoshi implored people in December 2009 (several months after
by applecore 13y ago
It wasn't until over a year later (July 2010) that the first block was likely mined using GPUs.
Satoshi implored people in December 2009 (several months after this post) to postpone mining using GPUs for as long as possible[1].
[1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg54#msg54 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg54#msg54
- mrb 13y agoActually the first person known to GPU-mine (supposedly an Apple OS engineer, friend of "BitcoinEXpress" on bitcointalk.org) claims he did it in May 2010, wrote his own miner, running on 3 x AMD Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards. The claim sounds plausible. There was a small bump in the global hashrate in May that seems to correspond to the power of this setup. I commented on it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40876.msg520645#msg520645 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40876.msg520645#msg5...
- millstone 13y agoSatoshi's pleading to not port bitcoin to big endian machines is shocking. Hopefully that has been fixed!