I dunno. I guess 144 blocks / a small integer number of people.
But I can say that in July 2012, my year old Mac laptop did 4 blocks in 12 hrs before difficulty adjusted.
Topic: A Personal Computer Mined How Many Bitcoin Per Day In 2009? 100? 250? 1700? (Read 373 times)
April 13, 2024, 11:57:08 PM
April 13, 2024, 08:20:55 PM
It depends on the time period in 2009, as the difficulty would have been at it's lowest. It could have been possible to mine millions of coins at some stages in 2009. You might have had a lot of Bitcoin mined in this period but the average amount of Bitcoin transactions per month was less than 100.
April 13, 2024, 07:00:14 PM
There was also the fact that bitcoin didn't have a price back then and was purely experimental.
It's fascinating to look back in time and realize what we missed out on. In 2009, many of us were probably aware of BTC's existence but would rather use our PCs to play games than mine a few worthless BTC at the time. Back in 2009, those who believed in BTC's future might have only included Satoshi and a few devs with a very clear vision for the post-crisis economy.I hope that the story of a miner who mined BTC in 2009 and became a millionaire in 2025 when 1BTC = 150K USD will soon be shared and adapted into a movie. It would be a must-watch movie as BTC sets its ATH for the season.
April 13, 2024, 10:52:29 AM
for instance
i just thought of random block 5000.. and looked at the what day it appeared(feb20th)
and found first block of that day 4932 and last block of day 5048 (uk time)
meaning 116blocks that one day
there were 5 separate sequences happening that day(5 computers)
where the best sequence solved 89 of the 116 blocks
so that random day i picked, had one computer getting 89*50=4450 coin
Meaning on Feb 20, 2009, people could mine $300,000,000 of Bitcoin (at today's value) on their Pentium II..... per day.
Clarifying question... I assume people used the same computer to do this day after day, often for weeks or months. If someone ran the mining program for 3 months, it was all going to the same address? I wonder because the one guy who had 75,000BTC on his hard drive that is famously lost in the landfill.... he likely mined that before seed phrases. The fact all there was at the time was the private key and no one has stolen those coins after 11 years, shows how secure private keys can be even without a seed phrase. In theory!
February 10, 2024, 10:25:42 AM
Kind of OT but were they really that bad? Maybe I was lucky because my 20 GB HDD from back in 1990's worked fine and I even still have it somewhere in the house as a relic 
I am sure that such things were of much better quality than they are today, because they were made to last - and today they are made to break down within a certain period of time. I also have a lot of old electronics that are over 20 years old and mostly still functional.
February 10, 2024, 09:37:40 AM
Have heard of these stories from newly joined accounts every few weeks on this forum. Someone looking for help to unlock their wallet.dat file while others scamming someone trying to "sell" their loaded wallet.dat file.
Only rich people used a password! I'm not sure you could even lock the OG BitcoinQT. I think that was introduced with new Multibit wallet. I certainly never set a password for any of my QTs.
February 10, 2024, 05:18:18 AM
We just made sure we had a copy of our wallet.dat on a memory stick or external Hdd.
I have hundreds of them, all worthless now!
Have heard of these stories from newly joined accounts every few weeks on this forum. Someone looking for help to unlock their wallet.dat file while others scamming someone trying to "sell" their loaded wallet.dat file.I have hundreds of them, all worthless now!
Since I started learning about bitcoin back in 2015-16 when the price was in three digits I never got to see any of that action. But reading the calculations posted on this thread, I now realize why some of the OG gamblers on Primedice and other old casinos have thousands of bitcoin gambled on their accounts and the owners made the best money out of them.
February 10, 2024, 12:57:25 AM
Just curious how they might have lost their Bitcoin by reinstalling Windows.
Bitcoin core stores the data in the same drive as your windows (C:) and I believe it always stored it in the %APPDATA% route. So when you re-install windows and format that same drive you lose all your data including your wallet file.There was also the fact that bitcoin didn't have a price back then and was purely experimental.
Given how often computer hard drives seem to crash back in the day,
Kind of OT but were they really that bad? Maybe I was lucky because my 20 GB HDD from back in 1990's worked fine and I even still have it somewhere in the house as a relic February 10, 2024, 12:44:32 AM
Hi there it is totally depend on computer configuration so nobody able to give perfect ans.
But that time mining was so easy.
But that time mining was so easy.
February 10, 2024, 12:32:01 AM
Incredible insight, if only I was lucky enough to be aware of Bitcoin back then. By the time I finally got in, in 2015, the days of solo CPU Mining were a thing of the past. Congratulations to were involved that early, must feel good.
CPU mining was different. It was very old when we didn't have such digital technology. Now, we take this mining thing as seriously as it was, and then it was not taken very seriously, and everyone didn't give it that much importance. Everyone looked down on it. The meagre time of that time has become like a dream of the present. Those who held on have developed their future, and those like us who could not hold on have lost the golden past.
Just curious how they might have lost their Bitcoin by reinstalling Windows.
February 09, 2024, 11:38:11 PM
I guess in the early days Bitcoin was kind of worthless, so nobody bothered to save the private key on paper or so. So people just deleted the whole wallet when reinstalling windows....Bitcoins gone....
We just made sure we had a copy of our wallet.dat on a memory stick or external Hdd.
I have hundreds of them, all worthless now!
February 09, 2024, 11:02:21 PM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I think a lot of them lost their bitcoins, for example, by simply reinstalling Windows, since then bitcoin was almost worthless. But, many have earned for themselves for life. Oh, I would like to be in 2009 now))
Just curious how they might have lost their Bitcoin by reinstalling Windows.
Given how often computer hard drives seem to crash back in the day, I am amazed 20% of all BTC are not permanently lost.
I guess in the early days Bitcoin was kind of worthless, so nobody bothered to save the private key on paper or so. So people just deleted the whole wallet when reinstalling windows....Bitcoins gone....
February 09, 2024, 10:34:38 PM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I think a lot of them lost their bitcoins, for example, by simply reinstalling Windows, since then bitcoin was almost worthless. But, many have earned for themselves for life. Oh, I would like to be in 2009 now))
Just curious how they might have lost their Bitcoin by reinstalling Windows.
Given how often computer hard drives seem to crash back in the day, I am amazed 20% of all BTC are not permanently lost.
February 06, 2024, 07:32:28 AM
I have always been interested in how difficult it was to mine BTC in 2009, but there seems to be no clear answer.
In 2009, the difficulty was 1. The number of blocks a computer could mine at the time varied depending on many factors, but a CPU miner had a hash rate of up to around 3 MH/s. With a difficulty of 1, that corresponded to a maximum of about 60 blocks per day, or 3000 BTC/day.
In 2010, the difficulty rose quickly as more people began mining, and so the number dropped. By the end of 2010, the difficulty was around 15000, so that same 3 MH/s CPU miner only mined 0.2 BTC/day.
BTW, the average time between blocks can be estimated with this:
time in seconds = difficulty * 232 / hash rate
So, the average time to find a block for a 3 MH/s CPU at a difficulty of 1 is 1 * 232 / 3000000 = 1432 seconds
Incredible insight, if only I was lucky enough to be aware of Bitcoin back then. By the time I finally got in, in 2015, the days of solo CPU Mining were a thing of the past. Congratulations to were involved that early, must feel good.
February 06, 2024, 07:23:43 AM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I also find it fascinating that people were able to mine from their own home computers considering this was in 2009 where the internet was still relatively new and something that not everyone was very knowledgeable about
Of course we can expect that those who were already mining at that time were basically geniuses of their time because like i said during this time not everyone can do what they were doing so the rewards they got were really well deserved and it would be interesting to talk to someone who mined bitcoin from that time and share to us how they did it and how it impacted their lives
Exactly! Those early miners were basically tech pioneers, diving into this new and mysterious world. They had to be real tech geeks, figuring out how to mine with their home computers in a time when not everyone was tech-savvy. Imagine being one of them setting up your rig, cracking the crypto codes. It would be so helpful!
February 06, 2024, 07:20:44 AM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I think a lot of them lost their bitcoins, for example, by simply reinstalling Windows, since then bitcoin was almost worthless. But, many have earned for themselves for life. Oh, I would like to be in 2009 now))
February 06, 2024, 06:45:57 AM
And imagine a guy staring at an old harddrive with a 10 000 Bitcoins on it, but he forgot the seed phrase of the wallet.....
If we talk about the very beginnings, then it should be noted that at that time there were no BTC wallets with seed and that Electrum appeared only at the end of 2011, and it seems to me that wallets with seed did not exist before that.
As for those who are at least publicly known, some are looking for their HDD with thousands of BTC in the garbage dump, others claim that they hid them in fishing rods that ended up in the garbage dump again. In those early days, few people could have predicted that Bitcoin would actually succeed in becoming what it is today.
I also find it fascinating that people were able to mine from their own home computers considering this was in 2009 where the internet was still relatively new and something that not everyone was very knowledgeable about
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The internet was already quite widespread then, at least here in Europe, where I already had ADSL sometime in 2004/05, and dial-up for years before that. Although quality equipment was quite expensive then, because for one LCD monitor that I bought then, today you can buy a solid 100+ cm smart TV or a laptop. I have to admit that I only heard about Bitcoin sometime in 2011, but then it didn't seem like something interesting to me.
February 05, 2024, 11:23:35 AM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I also find it fascinating that people were able to mine from their own home computers considering this was in 2009 where the internet was still relatively new and something that not everyone was very knowledgeable about
Of course we can expect that those who were already mining at that time were basically geniuses of their time because like i said during this time not everyone can do what they were doing so the rewards they got were really well deserved and it would be interesting to talk to someone who mined bitcoin from that time and share to us how they did it and how it impacted their lives
maybe you find this WIRED article from 2011 interesting:
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/mf-bitcoin/
February 05, 2024, 10:55:02 AM
Although the OP asked an interesting question, it is also very interesting to me that during the first 4 years as much as 50% of all Bitcoins were mined, and of that as much as 2.625 million in the first year.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
Therefore, we can conclude that the first users were really privileged in some way, because not only could they mine with their personal computers, but they also had the opportunity to mine blocks with the highest rewards. It was, without any doubt, perhaps the most interesting time in the short history of Bitcoin, and the most fruitful period in someone's life if by any chance he saved the mined BTC for the future.
I also find it fascinating that people were able to mine from their own home computers considering this was in 2009 where the internet was still relatively new and something that not everyone was very knowledgeable about
Of course we can expect that those who were already mining at that time were basically geniuses of their time because like i said during this time not everyone can do what they were doing so the rewards they got were really well deserved and it would be interesting to talk to someone who mined bitcoin from that time and share to us how they did it and how it impacted their lives
February 05, 2024, 10:52:55 AM
In 2009, the difficulty was 1. The number of blocks a computer could mine at the time varied depending on many factors, but a CPU miner had a hash rate of up to around 3 MH/s. With a difficulty of 1, that corresponded to a maximum of about 60 blocks per day, or 3000 BTC/day.
Neat! This is the kind of stuff I've wondered about in the back of my head but never really sought out the answers to, and I appreciate the detailed explanation.And here we are in 2024, where a bunch of shitcoins can still be mined using CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, and even hard drives but nothing comes close to bitcoin in terms of popularity or market domination. If only I'd heard about it in the very early days and understood its significance (because as it stands, there was a disconnect between the two the way it happened for me anyhow), I'd be living a much different life right now. In any case, it's wild to think about how easy it was to mine BTC then as opposed to now--the evolution from using a PC to high-dollar ASICs seems like something that would have taken place over decades instead of 15 years (in my mind at least).
Even the early faucets paid out what in hindsight was an incredible amount of bitcoin. Even if you'd saved everything you received from faucets from back in 2015, you'd probably have a decent stash. I hate thinking about this stuff.
You can learn and start investing small amounts in high risk options - even if you bought some NVidia shares in 2013 you would have made a very decent return by now.....
It is never too late.....
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