13 Years ago a regular PC could mine over 50 BTC in a day!
Satoshi talked about the very first automatic difficulty adjustment of the proof-of-work network that took place on December 30th, 2009. "We had our first automatic adjustment of the proof-of-work difficulty on 30 Dec 2009. The minimum difficulty is 32 zero bits, so even if only one person was running a node, the difficulty doesn’t get…
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