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Re: Wouldn't it be more fair if the bitcoins were shared equally?
by
lassdas
on 19/02/2013, 09:57:24 UTC
Sure, but the OP isn't complaining that he can't receive bitcoin in exchange for services.  He's complaining that nobody will give him something for free that has already established a significant value.
No, he's complaining that it didn't start out more or less evenly distributed, and that a bunch of cryptocurrency nerds mined most of it in the beginning.
Those nerds that started this cryptocurrency got rewarded.
Those that keep the system running, by creating blocks and processing transactions that way, get rewarded.
What's unfair about that?

Why should anyone get anything for doing nothing?
And why would it be fair to give those that don't do anything the same share as those that do all the work?

I can't think of any way to initially distribute bitcoins in a more fair way than the one Satoshi came up with.