Fourteen years ago, almost to the day, Satoshi wrote,
The average total coins generated across the network per day stays the same. Faster machines just get a larger share than slower machines. If everyone bought faster machines, they wouldn't get more coins than before.We should have a gentleman's agreement to postpone the GPU arms race as long as we can for the good of the network. It's much easer to get new users up to speed if they don't have to worry about GPU drivers and compatibility. It's nice how anyone with just a CPU can compete fairly equally right now.
You can find it in this thread:
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/8/#10
The only post before it in the thread that mentions GPUs, and that Satoshi might have been responding to, was this one from user SmokeTooMuch,
Suggestion :Since the coins are generated faster on fast machines, many people will want to use their GPU power to do this, too.So, my suggestion is to implement a GPU-computing support using ATI Stream and Nvidia CUDA.
Does anyone have an idea if there was a gentlemen's agreement that temporarily levelled the playground? Or was there another fix?
It'd be bit of Bitcoin history it'd be good to know more about.