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Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by robotmay on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:03PM (#26160632)
Originally it was distributed in a very fair manner, compared to other coins; it had a faucet which required captcha solving to get coins: https://medium.com/nanocurrency/the-nano-faucet-c99e18ae1202

Now, yes, you have to exchange for it from other currencies, as there is a finite supply which has already been issued.

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Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:26PM (#26161896)
Yeah, see, finite supply entirely in the hands of early adopters doesn't really sound very legit to me.
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Re:Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto by robotmay on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:21AM (#26164414)
I'm not sure what other options work out better though. BTC is now only mineable by large groups with tons of hardware, which seems less fair to me. At least with the faucet approach everyone was equal in terms of what they could acquire.

Personally I didn't use it anyway, I just traded for the coin like anything else.

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