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Title: Ringing in the new with 8,000,000 strong Post by: miscreanity on December 31, 2011, 02:00:16 AM It's just symbolic, but it's still nice to see 2012 arriving just as Bitcoin hits 8,000,000 units.
The rollover should occur between 1700-1800 UTC. Title: Re: Ringing in the new with 8,000,000 strong Post by: Fizzgig on December 31, 2011, 06:46:52 PM Happy 8 million bitcoins! http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc
Title: Re: Ringing in the new with 8,000,000 strong Post by: netrin on December 31, 2011, 06:53:24 PM Auspicious and not a little fishy...
http://blockexplorer.com/b/160000 was mined at 2011-12-31 18:13, only 32 seconds after block 159999. And blocks are mined at roughly 10 per hour - almost double the normal average. Title: Re: Ringing in the new with 8,000,000 strong Post by: ineededausername on December 31, 2011, 06:56:52 PM It's timed to do this on purpose, isn't it :)
Block 100000 came on 12-29-10. Title: Re: Ringing in the new with 8,000,000 strong Post by: netrin on December 31, 2011, 07:05:17 PM I wouldn't say it's 'in the stars'. Bitcoin attempts to reproduce 50 btc every ten minutes, but it's pure chance. 30 seconds or one hour are both reasonable. If bitcoin had been mined exactly every ten minutes, then I think 8M would have been 19 January.
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