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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). Thou

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.

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.