Hacker News Reader

> the founder of the new currency wants to be the one that centrally controls it

By its choice of emission, Bitcoin ensured a concentration of wealth on early miners including Satoshi.

Some founders, on the contrary, want no-one to be able to control their new currency, by making the emission purely linear, thus diluting any early adopter.

View on HN

There was no pre-mining in Bitcoin. There were early adopters, but I think we're all early adopters still at this stage. Really, it might not be CPU mine-able and $1/coin but it's still nowhere near final value if it managed to actually survive and win dominance over fiat. Clearly no one centrally controls it. Satoshi is gone and his money never seems to move.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com