It was a heck of a thing to sit and watch the hashrate climb as you all started mining in the last couple hours.

It’s one thing to bootstrap a network from Block #0 with 3 machines and not have any issues, but it’s much more rewarding to see that BitcoinII could indeed survive a healthy increase in mining pressure without falling apart at the seams.

There’s only so much stress testing I can do with my limited access to hardware.

I’ve stressed over this for months trying to be sure that everything was exactly right, or that at least I didn’t massively screw up somewhere, and those of you who put it to the test have helped put my mind at ease.

Sincerely, Thank You!