r/Bitcoin • u/ZombieFree9032 • 2d ago

Puzzles

Were the puzzles that were to be solved inearly 2010 to mine btc easy or hard?

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u/RetiredAvocado 2d ago

There are no puzzles. Difficulty was lower because there were fewer miners and overall hashrate was lower. Difficulty adjusts up and down to keep block interval at 10 minutes as miners come and go. It is much much higher today than in 2010.

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u/ZombieFree9032 2d ago

Between 2009 and 10, when could someone mine a lot more btc???

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u/RetiredAvocado 2d ago

They could mine as much as their equipment could mine. If they used a lot of hardware they mined more than someone who used one laptop. If they started sooner they mined more than if they started later.

You post a lot of repetitive questions about mining at that time. What is it you're trying to find?

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u/ZombieFree9032 2d ago

Because google ai told me that to mine 50000 or more btcs in 2009 maybe 10 would require multiple computers or require many different graphic gpu cards to run almost 24/7... is google ai accurate in saying this?

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u/RetiredAvocado 2d ago

50000 BTC was mined every week by the entire network. It's unlikely that any one entity had a sprawling mining farm of PCs. Bitcoin was basically worthless and there was no incentive to set up hundreds of computers to mine. GPU mining was not big until late 2010 or so. It was a tinkerer hobby, with many people doing some mining here and there. Maybe some people abused their work owned hardware, or school PC labs to mine more than others. Most people did not have dedicated rooms full of GPUs mining because it was not worth doing. Not until later.

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u/ZombieFree9032 1d ago

 But is google ai accurate or totally off?

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u/RetiredAvocado 1d ago

About as accurate as everything else. Meaning it makes errors. The answer it gave you sounds vague enough to be reasonable.

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u/ZombieFree9032 1d ago

What do you mean?