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Protection Over Profit: What Early Mining Patterns Suggest About Bitcoin’s Inventor

Researchers believe Bitcoin’s creator probably used specialized mining software in the coin’s early days to protect the new network – not to profit from it.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 9:50 a.m. Published Aug 31, 2020, 8:44 p.m.
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