> Anybody that mined those earlier blocks on the weird unknown hardware
Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.
A.) That’s a possibility.
B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.
Which “weird unknown hardware”. Early in Bitcoin, you could just mine bitcoin with any CPU — you still can.
A.) That’s a possibility.
B.) As someone mentioned already, this doesn’t make sense from a trust and security standpoint. Yet discarding this possibility doesn’t prove that (A) is what really happened.