News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled. Parent comment

Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by tromp on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:13PM (#15909531)
He would have had to mine for 139 days to get ~1M bitcoins (50BTC every 10 min). More if other people are mining too.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disa... by biot on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:37PM (#15909749)
Wikipedia says he mined “at genesis and for 10 days afterwards”. Regardless of 10 or 139 (perhaps “genesis” includes several years of development), it doesn’t change the point.
[ Parent | on HN ]