Not sure if I read about it Wired, or if it was a little before that.
I did a half-baked attempt at mining, but it was not interesting enough to fiddle with the mining program. I remember DL'ing the wallet though. But not sure if I dl'ed the whole block chain.
Ironically enough, I might as well have been "bitten by the bug", as I did quite a bit of mining for distributed.net without any thoughs about getting paid.
Been doing some low-speed hashing now though, and will prob upgrade from my somewhat old Radeon 4800 to a dual setup with better cards. The radeon can go into my old machine that has a NVIDA card.
Would not mind making a mining rig in the basement either. Sounds fun, and there are always other cryptocoins when the difficulty becomes to high.
Topic: How and When Did You Discover Bitcoins? (Read 445 times)
I got really interested in this show called Breaking the Set with Abby Martin. From that, I found out about Max Keiser's show. Max mentioned Bitcoin briefly, and I almost missed it; I rewound it and listened again, not sure what on earth Bitcoin was or how it would stir up the Banksters. So I did some research and voila, managed to find my happy ass here 
I think it'd be interesting to hear how/when everyone heard of bitcoins.
I did in fall of '11 from a Wired magazine article via "Stumbleupon". The best thing I ever stumbled on ; )
I did in fall of '11 from a Wired magazine article via "Stumbleupon". The best thing I ever stumbled on ; )
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