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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: satoshi mining alone
by
gmaxwell
on 20/07/2024, 09:02:12 UTC
when Satoshi started the bitcoin (blockchain) and he was mining alone ig, was he mining all the time? Cause if he stopped and nobody mined how was bitcoin able to continue to create blockchain

Is there solution for event where nobody would mine some coin?

The original software wouldn't even mine if it didn't have other peers.  And there is a large gap in time between the release announcement of bitcoin and block 1 being mined, so I think it's doubtful that Satoshi was alone at any point except maybe during the period when the network wasn't even making one block per ten minutes.