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hey, I missed this AMA, but I just read the whole thing and feel some amount of gratitude.

I notice you use metaphors a lot.

I bought a miner with the intention of mining eCash for the first little bit.

Are there any mining pools already operating? I'm sure that they're not on a main net... I'm asking because I know I'll be out of town for the fork and I don't want to drag my miner on the trip.

One other question:

How'd you decide on 50% of "satoshi's coins" and not 25 or 75?