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wishing i had actually kept my mining program running when I experimentally installed it and ran it for about 30 minutes ~5-6 years ago now.

lawlessone 9y ago
if you have an account with any only pool you should probably check just to see,i still had a little in one pool after all that time.
diminish 9y ago
I remember those times - does anyone know how many bitcoins one could make per computing time, every year since the beginning to see what opportunity is missed.
zby 9y ago
6 years ago it was already too late for CPU mining (at least after March when I tried it).
- tempay 9y ago
  It could have been using a GPU.
  - holtalanm 9y ago
    correct. It was on a VERY low-end laptop GPU though, so returns probably wouldn't have been very high, which is why I shut it off.
ttul 9y ago
Wishing I had not transferred one Bitcoin to someone back in 2011 just to show them how it works. And then erased that old MacBook that was loaded with 10 BTC in its wallet.
shmageggy 9y ago
This made me realize I think I just recycled the hard drive with my old bitcoin wallet on it. I had half a bitcoin that I mined in a few nights on my old Geforce 4 GPU. Fuck me!
- Klathmon 9y ago
  I just learned last week. I found the word bitcoin next a last modified date of 2011 in my backups while looking for something else. My heart kind of started racing as I looked through it. The backup was of a mining program I was using, and it had the address that I was mining to. Looked up the address, it has 13.3 BTC in it! I started unpacking the whole archive to find the wallet, only to learn that I didn't backup the wallet.dat. I don't know why I didn't, probably some combination of it being worth like $30 at the time + not knowing exactly where the private key was stored. But it brings the total amount of bitcoin i've lost over the years up to 23.3...

7 ms·

wishing i had actually kept my mining program running when I experimentally installed it and ran it for about 30 minutes ~5-6 years ago now.

by holtalanm 9y ago

lawlessone 9y ago
if you have an account with any only pool you should probably check just to see,i still had a little in one pool after all that time.
diminish 9y ago
I remember those times - does anyone know how many bitcoins one could make per computing time, every year since the beginning to see what opportunity is missed.
zby 9y ago
6 years ago it was already too late for CPU mining (at least after March when I tried it).
- tempay 9y ago
  It could have been using a GPU.
  - holtalanm 9y ago
    correct. It was on a VERY low-end laptop GPU though, so returns probably wouldn't have been very high, which is why I shut it off.
ttul 9y ago
Wishing I had not transferred one Bitcoin to someone back in 2011 just to show them how it works. And then erased that old MacBook that was loaded with 10 BTC in its wallet.
shmageggy 9y ago
This made me realize I think I just recycled the hard drive with my old bitcoin wallet on it. I had half a bitcoin that I mined in a few nights on my old Geforce 4 GPU. Fuck me!
- Klathmon 9y ago
  I just learned last week. I found the word bitcoin next a last modified date of 2011 in my backups while looking for something else. My heart kind of started racing as I looked through it. The backup was of a mining program I was using, and it had the address that I was mining to. Looked up the address, it has 13.3 BTC in it! I started unpacking the whole archive to find the wallet, only to learn that I didn't backup the wallet.dat. I don't know why I didn't, probably some combination of it being worth like $30 at the time + not knowing exactly where the private key was stored. But it brings the total amount of bitcoin i've lost over the years up to 23.3...