I think this is a common psyop that needs to be pushed back on Whilst it is considerably fairer than most launches today, to state it's the fairest launch possible is disingenuous Satoshi and insiders mined the initial supply of BTC The fact that the public *could in theory* is neither here nor there - they did not - and so there is no 'immaculate conception' Compare this to something like Ethereum, and the reality is that it is no fairer than a public pre-sale with an allocation to insiders to fund the ecosystem - in both instances c. 10% of supply was used to bootstrap the respective networks Both as fair as each other, and in both instances there was room for improvement You could even argue that by definition it's not possible to be public if there is no public knowledge of it, and the the irony is that the ETH pre-sale *was* public and available to a much wider set of market participants The reality is simply that Bitcoin is not as unique as many like to claim