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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by ohgodplsno on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:02AM (#26980068)
Right, it just had Satoshi and friends as basically the only members on the network and mined millions of coins when difficulty was basically non existent.
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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by pablovidal85 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:29AM (#26980284)
Early adoption is not premining.
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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by Yizahi on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:09AM (#26992375)
In law - not. In spirit - yes. Same like Apple and Google aren't monopolists on mobile because the definition requires a single corp to be a monopoly. But essentially they are monopoly.

Definition sometimes are lagging behind ever changing reality, same with "premine".

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