Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013
by lupire on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:07PM
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Yeah, only computer tech geeks were using it then. The kind of people who would do wild stuff like go to college and install Linux on PlayStations.
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I don't know if Linux users had (have?) much sympathy for bitcoin.
Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013
by idiotsecant on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:05PM
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I think Linux users are humans with a range of interests.
Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013
by squeaky-clean on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:40PM
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I'd say 2009-2012 it was mostly Linux users, at least the communities I was in.
I know a gui for bitcoin core was available for windows machines by at least the end of 2010 as that's what I used when I was first reading about it.
The original bitcoin software ran on Windows if I'm not mistaken, so I don't know about "mostly Linux users".
Maybe it was different in the US. In Europe I get the impression the FOSS community is predominantly left-leaning. My local Debian community certainly is, and they're anti-cryptocurrency (like myself).
Slashdot was also quite skewed against bitcoin, and that was a pretty international geek readership.