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Re:Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive by woah on Monday July 05, 2021 @09:40AM (#27737873)
Didn’t Satoshi premine a large number of coins?
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Re:Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive by haakon on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:13AM (#27738202)
No. Bitcoin was launched publicly and announced, and anybody could mine, even on the most dinky laptop. Nothing was mined prior to launch (aka a premine).
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