Quote from: yogg on April 01, 2017, 08:00:29 AM

Quote from: mocacinno on March 29, 2017, 12:04:41 PM

About your question why he didn't generate x coins for himself: he could have done a hefty premine, but since btc is open source, everybody would have been able to see the premine right there in his sourcecode...

Just a sidenote :
What's the difference between a premine, an instamine, and Bitcoin ?
Since that cryptocurrency scheme was coming out of nowhere, satoshi was the only one believing in it for some time, and was the only miner.

Fact that it was open source is important, but to me bitcoin is an "instamined" coin. The "Insta" part during weeks, sure, but still ...

And as a self-less gesture didn't dump those initial chunks of bitcoin. Satoshi died in 2013. No one ever will be touching those coins. Satoshi had a grander dream for the world.