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== 6 May 2018 - Telegram ==
Bruce Fenton:
That’s false — the network had 4500 miners by the time of the BitcoinTalk announcement
This whole idea that something is only fair once it’s posted on every forum on the Internet is preposterous -/ this is open source and a community effort — anyone who wanted to post on Bitcoin Talk could - I personally didn’t post because I wasn’t aware of the Ann section and find BitcoinTalk in general to be a very low quality forum
The accusations that this was somehow shady are doubly preposterous to anyone who actually understands math.
There were 70 miners within a day and 1200 within 4 days or so —- if you claim that me or anyone else purposely delayed the announcement in one stupid forum for financial gain that’s utterly ludicrous.
Work out the numbers: less than 1/3 of a percent of the coins were mined in that period — do you really think that me and the devs and Patrick Byrne and all the other people who put years of time and millions of dollars into this sat on the sidelines plotting so we could get a mining advantage on 9 days worth of coins worth less than $2k at the time?
This about it it. Follow the money and motivation
It’s a stupid accusation
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Bruce Fenton:
It wasn’t fair to non English speakers either
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Bruce Fenton:
Or people without computers
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Bruce Fenton:
The launch was announced MONTHS ahead of time - posted on medium, posted on twitter — announced at four major public events and posted publicly
THIS is why it grew so fast — obviously if 4500 people mined then that means far more than that found out about it
== 5 May 2018 - Discord 2==
