Crazy crypto mining story from 2013

Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by lottin on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:35PM (#33251886)

I don't know if Linux users had (have?) much sympathy for bitcoin.

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Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by idiotsecant on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#33252335)

I think Linux users are humans with a range of interests.

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Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by squeaky-clean on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:40PM (#33252775)

I'd say 2009-2012 it was mostly Linux users, at least the communities I was in.

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Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by greycol on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:16PM (#33254106)

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.

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Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by lottin on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:24AM (#33257638)

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.

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Re:Crazy crypto mining story from 2013 by kolinko on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:09PM (#33254010)

It was mostly hackerspace/linux kind of people back then.

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