Research from RSK's co-founder suggests that an early miner assumed to be Satoshi Nakamoto likely curbed his hashrate in Bitcoin’s first days.
New evidence from ongoing research into early Bitcoin mining activity suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto may have intentionally mined fewer blocks than he could have in Bitcoin’s first days.
A fresh blog post from Sergio Demain Lerner, co-founder of Bitcoin startup RSK, suggests that “Patoshi,” a pseudonym for a 2009-2010 Bitcoin miner assumed to be Satoshi, may have kept his mining equipment off for the first 5 minutes of every “block interval” (or, the time between one block in Bitcoin’s blockchain and the next).
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https://decrypt.co/33763/satoshi-purposely-mined-less-bitcoin-than-possible-research