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		tromp on Dec 12, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporari... He would have had to mine for 139 days to get ~1M bitcoins (50BTC every 10 min). More if other people are mining too.

biot on Dec 12, 2017 [–]

Wikipedia says he mined “at genesis and for 10 days afterwards”. Regardless of 10 or 139 (perhaps “genesis” includes several years of development), it doesn’t change the point.

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