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Re:Bitcoin just passed $5,000 by slg on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:59PM (#15459850)
It is amazing to think that only a few years ago you could take an old laptop, download a miner, stick it in a closet and it would spit out something now worth a quarter of a million dollars every few days. There are a lot of problems with Bitcoin. If you look at my comment history you will see I am pretty down on it for all sort of reasons I won't go into at the moment. However sometimes you just have to take a step back and admire how crazy impressive it is that Bitcoin has reached this point.
Re:Bitcoin just passed $5,000 by cableshaft on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:01PM (#15460397)
If you go back far enough, you didn't even need to download a specific mining software, just download the Bitcoin client at the time and you could generate bitcoin (or mine) using it. So crazy to think about now in hindsight. Back then you had to really try hard to find someone that would accept any amount of them.
Re:Bitcoin just passed $5,000 by warrenm on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:09PM (#15467973)
and we all feel stupid we weren't doing it then