This emission is almost 18 times faster than scheduled and didn't change despite 4 difficulty adjustments (assuming the 2016 blocks figure is correct)."
"AFAIK, Charlie Lee did not say
the launch would be delayed a few days, then launch in the middle of the night.
IIRC many alt-coins had fast-mines on initial launch. During the GPU era, the default difficulty of Bitcoin was way too low. Most people producing alts did not bother to bump it."
