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Re: [2018-05-29] Laszlo pizza man - 'satoshi was weird, paranoid and bossy'
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hatshepsut93
on 01/06/2018, 04:50:17 UTC
Didn't know Laszlo was a GPU mining pioneer, though.

As far as I know he was the very first to suggest it. Satoshi indeed asked him to lay off the idea to give others a chance with their CPUs. I'm not sure if he did or not. Presumably if he blew 10,000 coins and had many more he did not.

Edit - confirmed here - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-guy-laszlo-hanyecz-on-why-bitcoin-is-still-the-only-flavor-of-crypto-for-him

This is very interesting in the light of "Satoshi owns 1 million coins" myth that is being brought up so often . It seems like Satoshi was against concentration of big amounts of coins in one hands, so this might mean 2 things:

1. Satoshi didn't mine any disproportionate amounts of coins, there were many early miners that we don't know about.

2. Satoshi did mine big amounts of early coins, but he destroyed them or don't plan to spend them in any way.