Satoshi's Hashrate

Looking at the hash rate reductions and how it seems to be explicitly controlled first (1) to drop just below 50% and then (2) fading out, it's almost as if Satoshi was thinking (1) build trust in the network by not maintaining a 51+% attack position and (2) the network is self-sustainable, my work here is done.

&gt; It&#x27;s clear that Satoshi was able to achieve some sort of fine tuned [hash-rate] control. I&#x27;m not sure how such control could be maintained, but I&#x27;m willing to guess that the standard client on a home PC wouldn&#x27;t be able to do it.<p>This is something the operating system can provide (or another application). No need for a &#x27;special&#x27; client.

I find it increasingly hard to believe that Satoshi was one person. It is, however, in the best interest of everyone but journalists that they keep their identities hidden to avoid ad hominem attacks.

From this can we estimate what kind of hardware Satoshi was using? Like was it feasible to get that hash rate on 1 desktop computer back then, or would he have been using a large number of computers?

very interesting read.<p>definitely makes it seem as though Satoshi was a group of people running many machines.<p>would be very interested to see more content like this in the future from other early-stars of the BTC world.

There most likely was a simple gpu miner that wasn&#x27;t public knowledge until later, which helped in balancing out the network without needing a horde of machines early on.

I hope Gwern and other writers interested in the Satoshi phenomenon keep tabs on stuff like this... I mean, the fact that you might be able to deduce his hardware and other small clues slowly being revealed, might eventually lead to a pretty stable image of the persona behind Bitcoin.

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