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Back around the summer of 2010 I decided to play around a little bit with Bitcoin mining while I was looking for a job after college. For a couple of weeks I le

Back around the summer of 2010 I decided to play around a little bit with Bitcoin mining while I was looking for a job after college. For a couple of weeks I let the computer mine and accumulated what amounted to pocket change, then gave up and forgot about it. I've spent many hours over the past year or so digging through old burned backup CDs, DVDs, and hard drives trying to find the wallet, with no luck so far. Maybe someday.

meowface 9y ago
If it makes you feel better, unless you had a good GPU, what you earned might not have been worth more than a few thousand dollars (at current BTC prices). Though the difficulty was certainly much less in 2010, so who knows.
- DennisP 9y ago
  Here's a chart of the difficulty history. Difficulty at the start of 2010 was 1. Just one. By 2011 it was 18K, by 2012 it was up to a million, and by 2014 it was a billion. In early 2010 it would still have been CPU mining. I couldn't find exactly when GPU mining started, but it wasn't available at first. There were no mining pools yet either, so if he successfully mined any blocks he got a full 50 BTC each time, or over $100,000 per block. So he should probably keep looking for his old file. http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-time/ http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-time/
- joshstrange 9y ago
  I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.
  - iamatworknow 9y ago
    That's basically the state I was at as well. My exact thought was something like, "A currency that you make by running a program like 'Folding@Home'? Might as well try." Even if I didn't actually mine a ton, it still would be neat to find it. I know it's gotta be there somewhere.
    - joshstrange 9y ago
      I know mine is long gone, my old gaming rig was what I mined it all on and I've rebuilt that machine with different OS's a million times over since I mined it and rarely backed up anything but maybe some media. Everything I cared about was on my laptop.

meowface 9y ago

If it makes you feel better, unless you had a good GPU, what you earned might not have been worth more than a few thousand dollars (at current BTC prices). Though the difficulty was certainly much less in 2010, so who knows.

DennisP 9y ago
Here's a chart of the difficulty history. Difficulty at the start of 2010 was 1. Just one. By 2011 it was 18K, by 2012 it was up to a million, and by 2014 it was a billion. In early 2010 it would still have been CPU mining. I couldn't find exactly when GPU mining started, but it wasn't available at first. There were no mining pools yet either, so if he successfully mined any blocks he got a full 50 BTC each time, or over $100,000 per block. So he should probably keep looking for his old file. http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-time/ http://www.coindesk.com/data/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-time/
joshstrange 9y ago
I mined 100BTC on my CPU in like the summer of 2010 solo mining. I attempted to do GPU mining but the tooling was very specific at the time and I wasn't really that interested. I didn't even fully understand BTC at the time past "Digital Currency", "Proof of work", "Run minner = get BTC". I want to say the block size was 50 at the time so mining 2 block all on mine own on a CPU was pretty impressive IMHO.
- iamatworknow 9y ago
  That's basically the state I was at as well. My exact thought was something like, "A currency that you make by running a program like 'Folding@Home'? Might as well try." Even if I didn't actually mine a ton, it still would be neat to find it. I know it's gotta be there somewhere.
  - joshstrange 9y ago
    I know mine is long gone, my old gaming rig was what I mined it all on and I've rebuilt that machine with different OS's a million times over since I mined it and rarely backed up anything but maybe some media. Everything I cared about was on my laptop.