Satoshi Invented GPU Mining to Defend the Network Says Early Dev

Satoshi Nakamoto had pre-invented Bitcoin GPU mining in order to defend the network, says early Bitcoin developer who worked with the Bitcoin creator in 2010.

Laszlo Hanyecz, who is known for making the first real-world Bitcoin transaction, has also been credited with inventing Bitcoin GPU mining.

In a Cointelegraph interview, he said that not only Satoshi had invented it before him, but he also had several versions of the algorithm.

According to Hanyecz, one of the first emails he received from Satoshi was a response to the post where Hanyecz described his GPU miner.

"Hey, can you go slow with this? <.> Look, I don't care if people hoard the Bitcoin, I don't care if the wealth is concentrated. But right now, the big attraction is that anybody can download Bitcoin and start mining with their laptop."

Haneycz thinks that Satoshi very well knew that Bitcoin mining would eventually turn into an industry, but he wanted to delay it so as not to hamper adoption.

When Hanyecz emailed Satoshi apologizing for "Creeping up" on his project, Satoshi told him to just let the post thread die.

"And he actually shared with me his version of it. So even though it wasn't in Bitcoin, he did have GPU mining code and he said he was just keeping it ready in case he had to defend the network with it."

Sergio Demian Lerner, whose research into Satoshi's mining allowed with a high degree of certainty to identify the blocks that were mined by the Bitcoin creator, told Cointelegraph that it is possible that Satoshi used GPU mining.

The fact that apparently Satoshi had thought of GPU mining before launching the network, provides additional evidence that the Bitcoin project was years in the making.