Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by mersenne on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:26PM
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> Anybody that mined those earlier blocks on the weird unknown hardware
Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.
A.) That’s a possibility.
B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.
Re:Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (2016)
by vmception on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:04AM
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Satoshis first bitcoin blocks dont have a signature that matches known hardware. It doesnt matter if it was general processors like cpus or application specific integrated circuits.
Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.
A.) That’s a possibility.
B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.