Laszlo Heinitz: Satoshi Nakamoto provides for Bitcoin mining on video cards

Developer and early miner Laszlo Heinitz said that even at the very dawn of the existence of the first cryptocurrencySatoshi Nakamoto provided for BTC mining on video cards. This is reported by the Cointelegraph.

Heinitz, also known as the perpetratorThe first documented purchase using cryptocurrency, said that in May 2010, he developed a mechanism for mining bitcoin through video cards.

Heinitz post on the Bitcointalk forum, which describes the features of GPU mining.

However, according to the pizza connoisseur, soon Satoshi turned to him with a request to “hold his horses”:

“Hey, could you not rush this? Listen, I don’t care that people accumulate bitcoins, and I'm not interested in the concentration of wealth. However, right now the network is most attractive in that everyone can download software and start mining on their laptop. ”

According to Heinitz, Satoshi was initially awarethat bitcoin mining will eventually become an entire industry. Nevertheless, he wanted at first everyone to have the opportunity to participate in the validation of blocks, which would contribute to the popularization of cryptocurrency.

Heinitz said that he sent Satoshi an apology email. In response, the creator of Bitcoin asked him not to respond anymore to the topic on the forum.

One day, Heinitz sent Satoshi by mail the code of the GPU miner he developed, and he presented his version of the software in response. According to Heinitz, Satoshi was seriously concerned about the threat of a 51% attack.

“And he actually shared his version with me. And although Bitcoin did not undergo this, he already had ready code for GPU mining in order to protect the network. ”

Recall that recently Heinitz admitted that he mined 100,000 BTC and spent half on pizza.