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October 16, 2018, 11:09:33 PM
Merited by JimboToronto (1), HairyMaclairy (1)

It was knocking about the cypherpunk mailing list for a couple months before launch.
The only people who could possibly have been interested at that time.
Anyone who was anyone could have mined and contributed from day one or even before.
That doesn't make it a fair launch.  Satoshi was able to mine one million bitcoins himself.

I'm a crypto supporter but the fact that one guy owns such a large percentage of bitcoins scares off new investors.  This whole thing looks like a giant ponzi scheme from the outside.
As fair as poss in the circs. Would you have had him announce it in the MSM? Would've defeated the object, no?
It's not an investment, it's a bid for freedom. It doesn't need newbs.
What it looks like to newbs and what it actually is are different, and the former is irrelevant.
The million btc meme is a myth. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175996.msg1832988#msg1832988 onwards