[Edit: I later found that I was generating quite a bit more than that, just didn’t realize it because of the “matures in xx more blocks” concept. I still think it will be a major headache when the difficulty significantly increases though. I apologize for my silliness Smiley]
Satoshi, I figured it will take my modern core 2 duo about 20 hours of nonstop work to create 50.00! With older PCs it will take forever. People like to feel that they “own” something as soon as possible, is there a way to make the generation more divisible? So say, instead of making 50 every 20 hours, make 5 every 2 hours?
I don’t know if that means reducing the block size or reducing the 120-block threshold to say 12-block only or what, but because the difficulty is increasing I can imagine that a year from now the situation will be even worse (3+ weeks until you see the first spendable coins!) and we better find a solution for this ASAP.