Satoshi was an absolute genius for making the halving year the same as the US presidential election.
I don’t believe it was a coincidence, the man understood incentives!
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Nick Szabo admitted as much one time, I forget what interview 😉
Yep.
The halving happens a little less than every 4 years. If Satoshi had started Bitcoin a little more than a month later, like in mid-February 2009, then with all else being equal, the first halving would've happened in early 2013. And gradually, the halving dates will continue to drift earlier and earlier in the year, until eventually one of the halvings will no longer happen in a US presidential election year.
But by then, Bitcoin will have leveraged that impeccable timing towards its own hyperbitcoinization, and won't need that kind of timing anymore.
Indeed, there are no coincidences.
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That means he timed the genesis block. What if he hadn't finished the code for another year, then what would he have done? Did he finish the code much earlier but then wait to switch it on? It was certainly amazing timing, but I'm not convinced that it's not coincidence. A 4 year window is too big.
Watch them increase the term to 6 years
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