How many PCs where mining when block 1 (not the genesis) was mined?

[Sergio_Demian_Lerner]

I'm curious.

Does anybody has an estimation?

Thank you very much,
 Sergio.

[Bitobsessed]

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[Sergio_Demian_Lerner]

Comment I posted in  another thread:

I have evidence the same computer AND JUST ONE  mined blocks 1-10
(edit: or a group of computers turned on exactly at the same time)

Just look at the extranonce field in the coinbase field of the coinbase transaction. (this field is hidden in the input script)

The counter is monotonically incrementing at a constant pace. This is like a "fingerprint" of the computer that was mining.


Also this can be used to find how many computers/threads where mining at  some  time (until they get powered-off). Each thread has another monotonically incrementing ExtraNonce variable.

So from that we can infer Satoshi PC Resources. Those resources allowed him to mine a block with 32 leading zeros every 6 minutes.