Aftermath
PLOS ONE publishes peer-reviewed study confirming Patoshi mining anomalies across Bitcoin's first 18 months
Reykjavik University researchers publish the first peer-reviewed academic study of the Patoshi pattern in PLOS ONE. The paper identifies two distinct nonce anomalies — the 'P anomaly' (extended Patoshi) and the 'Z anomaly' (zerononce) — and crucially finds that the P anomaly appears in ALL of the first 64 blocks mined, including Block 12 which was previously classified as non-Patoshi by ExtraNonce analysis.