Your starting difficulty # guess is correct and pools will set appropriate settings and throttling to reflect this, but your reasoning is an opinion, which you're certainly entitled to. Calling me, us or the project Scam at this stage is rather premature and smells of some sort of a personal vendetta; though it's been done with each and every recent ALT launch.

You will always find the special few in every (what's the thread view count up to?  2000?) group. Others will appreciate what is coming.

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