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Re:Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, a... by wmf on Sunday February 23, 2014 @05:03PM (#7287807)
People forget that this was intended all along. Mining exists to secure Bitcoin; Bitcoin does not exist to serve miners.

Back when people used gold coins very few of them were miners either.

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