If you mine today with the right hardware you'll easy get more coins than I have earned since 3 month I just mine with CPU and sometimes GPU.
2. Just a question in general because I'm interested in this
I ask because I personally did not know Bitcointalk for too long.
And in fact the idea to make one forum extremely important than any other forum is not what I understand under a decentralized system.
Every platform has the same right and when one platform has to stop running for whatever reason any other platform can do the job as well.
What would happen if Bitcointalk would be closed within 24 hours because of a new law?
This is a bottleneck that should not exist.
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