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		fyloraspit on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The number of banks willing to do business with th... I'd love to believe you but this sounds somewhat farfetched given quoted specs. It was very early on that CPU mining was almost useless and even when it was useful it would not have been on a Pentium II

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In addition the early reward for mining a block was 50 bitcoins, there was no way to "mint" a smaller number.

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