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In 2008 Satoshi wrote that only coin creators would eventually need to run nodes. Mining did leave ordinary computers; nodes did not. Who runs the 25,489 reachable addresses, and why, with no reward.
No supply cap, a fee burn that can push issuance negative, and a 2022 switch from mining to staking — Ethereum's own design documents, read against Bitcoin's fixed 21 million.
Litecoin copied Bitcoin's code, swapped its proof-of-work and rescaled three figures by four, then its creator divested his entire holding, citing his own influence over the price.
Monero forked away from a currency whose founders had quietly mined 82 percent of its supply, then built a ledger that hides what Bitcoin's discloses and an emission with no final block.
How the Bitcoin ecosystem layers above and around the base chain: Lightning payment channels, federated sidechains, L1 envelope extensions, and mining pool architectures.
Bitcoin's threat model mapped end-to-end: what the protocol trusts, what it defends against, how each attack is countered, and where open risks remain.
How Bitcoin's 21 million cap emerges from a geometric halving series, how block rewards transition from subsidy to fees, and how the incentive model sustains honest mining.
How Bitcoin blocks are structured, how Merkle trees commit transactions to block headers, and how the most-work chain selection rule resolves forks.
Bitcoin chose a hard 21M cap; b-money (1998) proposed elastic supply; fiat runs central-bank discretion. The cypherpunk debate, Wei Dai's 2013 regret, and 15 years of cryptocurrency variants.
Start here if you know nothing about Bitcoin beyond the price. A five-part guide to what a bitcoin is, who keeps the record, how new coins appear, and why no one can cheat it.
What Satoshi's design assumed about a fee-only future, and the documented debate over whether transaction fees alone can sustain proof-of-work security after the block subsidy ends around 2140.
Charlie Lee launched Litecoin on October 13, 2011 as a Bitcoin-codebase fork with Scrypt PoW, 2.5-minute blocks, and 84 M cap. He framed it as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold'.
BitcoinTalk administrator (handle theymos) from 2010, Bitcoin Wiki admin, later r/Bitcoin moderator. Satoshi transferred forum control to him before departing; led the 2011 bitcointalk.org migration.
Jameson Lopp shows Satoshi deliberately throttled mining capacity, earning ~1.1M BTC when full capacity could have yielded ~2.19M BTC. Anyone claiming Satoshi was greedy hasn't done the math.
Sergio Demian Lerner published The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi, identifying a distinctive mining pattern (later named Patoshi) linking ~22,000 blocks (~1.1M BTC) to a single miner.
Bitcoins mined in the earliest weeks of Bitcoin's existence in January 2009 are moved for the first time, sparking intense speculation about whether Satoshi Nakamoto is spending coins.