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Topic: What is your Bitcoin birthday? - page 3. (Read 3732 times)
My "bitcoin birthday" is somewhere in March this year, when I bought first time with fiat (the same month I was born )
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I am not too old to know bitcoin, the same as when creating an account of this forum September 03, 2014..
May 2010
Setup five Dell Optiplex 745 Core2Duo in May 2010 that I switched over from a SETI project that was run over night and on weekends.
By day they were regular office slugs
~BCX~
Ha, most wise. My spare CPU cycles were dedicated to Folding@Home when I first discovered Bitcoin but I decided to split my limited resources rather than switch over.
Do you remember your total khps? (before the significant hashrate-boosting client upgrade later in the year).
Absolutely!
I was estatic I was getting 2.0 mhs per machine before the update.
After the update I was getting around 4.8 or so per machine.
You gave away 50? wow
I once formatted accidentally over 12,000 BTC.
Artforz gave me 10,000 of that early on.
Keep in mind, BTC had essentially no value and no real place to "sell" them back in the early day.
No body was mining it and getting more if I wanted more was fairly easy.
That's why I laugh when people claim Satoshi instamined LOL
There was zero motivation at that point.
~BCX~
sadly mine was the call of duty modern warfare 2 era (2009?)..... I would let the pc mine while I was at work and tried playing COD when I got home and the pc couldn't take it. Winter came around and I was too bored so I turned the program off to play (at the time they were pretty much worthless, not much to do with them either) and the hard drive has been reformatted many times since then. OCT 2013 is when I got back into it.
lol. Turned it off to play games. Hilarious. If you left it on, you'd have 50 million today.
January 12, 2014
Dec 26th 2013
sadly mine was the call of duty modern warfare 2 era (2009?)..... I would let the pc mine while I was at work and tried playing COD when I got home and the pc couldn't take it. Winter came around and I was too bored so I turned the program off to play (at the time they were pretty much worthless, not much to do with them either) and the hard drive has been reformatted many times since then. OCT 2013 is when I got back into it.
I first started earning bitcoins in October 2014 from faucets. They did not pay a lot, but they were a good way to quicky earn a few bitcoins. I won't say it's the best way to earn coins but it is good for beginners.
i've known bitcoin,it was september 2012 i was created an wallet on blockchain and i started faucet to get my first bitcoin and then i was loosing my identifier because i dont understand using the wallet,yeah september 2012 i was there 
I've known Bitcoin since 2011. Unfortunately, in my first approach I thought it was another big ponzi scheme...
Later in the end of 2012 I got some time to read about bitcoin and got to read Nakamoto's paper... and That's where all begun...
That's when I finally understood what bitcoin was all about and it certainly wasn't no ponzi but rather a technology that had the potential to disrupt the current financial system. Since then, I have been completely in love; I have been living intimately with bitcoin... and I might say... I wish I could have known her before...
Later in the end of 2012 I got some time to read about bitcoin and got to read Nakamoto's paper... and That's where all begun...
That's when I finally understood what bitcoin was all about and it certainly wasn't no ponzi but rather a technology that had the potential to disrupt the current financial system. Since then, I have been completely in love; I have been living intimately with bitcoin... and I might say... I wish I could have known her before...
first btc i bought it was nov 2011 i think, it was like 0.05
Around 8/2010 I solo mined two 50 BTC blocks on a Dell 2950 server but I never saved the wallet.
One of my current wallets goes back to 4/23/2011 where the first transaction was a payment from Deepbit. This is my official born again date that I can prove.
One of my current wallets goes back to 4/23/2011 where the first transaction was a payment from Deepbit. This is my official born again date that I can prove.
May 2010
Setup five Dell Optiplex 745 Core2Duo in May 2010 that I switched over from a SETI project that was run over night and on weekends.
By day they were regular office slugs
~BCX~
Ha, most wise. My spare CPU cycles were dedicated to Folding@Home when I first discovered Bitcoin but I decided to split my limited resources rather than switch over.
Do you remember your total khps? (before the significant hashrate-boosting client upgrade later in the year).
31 03 2011
2010-07-12.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
The question is did you keep it or did you sell it soon after?
My first 50 BTC block reward you mean? I quickly used it up giving tips and donations.
Yeah, but those 50 BTC were only worth a couple of dollars when I parted with them. I remember giving 150 BTC to my friend to get him started and 200 BTC to torservers.net later in the year. My friend sold all of his bitcoins the following year when I parted with most of mine and he was pleased with the surprising gains.
By the way, are the dates in your first post meant to be dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy? Just to clarify: my Bitcoin Birthday is July 12th, not December 7th.
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May 2010
Setup five Dell Optiplex 745 Core2Duo in May 2010 that I switched over from a SETI project that was run over night and on weekends.
By day they were regular office slugs
~BCX~
2010-07-12.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
The question is did you keep it or did you sell it soon after?
My first 50 BTC block reward you mean? I quickly used it up giving tips and donations.
2010-07-12.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
The question is did you keep it or did you sell it soon after?
My first 50 BTC block reward you mean? I quickly used it up giving tips and donations.
I honestly can't even remember when I bought my first coin. It's long gone now any way and I can't remember what address I used.
The question is did you keep it or did you sell it soon after?
2010-07-12.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
The question is did you keep it or did you sell it soon after?
2010-07-12.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
I received 5 BTC from Gavin's faucet. I generated my first block the following day.
very large faucet that time ? very sorry not joined at that time 
Wow 5 btc
WOW 5 BTC, I wish I could be in your shoes
Great!! 5 BTC from a Faucet? I have bad luck for not finding BTC at that time.
Yeah, it was 5 BTC at the time, protected only by a simple captcha (no e-mail required). Check it out here.
However, remember that bitcoins were worth much less back then. The rate at bitcoinmarket.com (Mt.Gox didn't yet exist) was 0.012 USD/BTC, and this was an all time high! (up from about 0.006 USD/BTC at the beginning of the month). One could only trade at this site in multiples of 100 BTC and I bought this minimal quantity later that day using PayPal (1.35 USD in total I think). Trades of 10000 BTC were commonplace (I remember at least one 10000 BTC sell order I could have so easily met but decided not to
).Bitcoin's difficulty was only about 24. It was not long before it jumped up to 45 but even at this level, and with just 200 khps (0.0002 GH/s), I found my own block on the 13th (50 BTC) and another on the 15th (50.01 BTC).
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