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Satoshi emails Laszlo Hanyecz expressing concern about GPU mining being publicized too early, arguing it would discourage new users who could only mine with CPUs. Satoshi asks Hanyecz to slow down his GPU mining efforts.
Satoshi asks the community to delay GPU mining, wanting to maintain fairness while the network is still growing and attracting new users.
Satoshi predicts the original software will become the industrial tool for GPU farms while client implementations drive UI innovation. He reveals the mathematical reasoning behind the 21 million coin limit.
Wei Dai's comments on the LessWrong 'Making money with Bitcoin?' thread. He clarified that he did not create Bitcoin but 'only described a similar idea more than a decade ago' and that Satoshi independently reinvented the concept. He revealed purchasing a Radeon 5870 GPU for mining after this thread, and warned that 'not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security.'