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I'm extremely skeptical of this claim. Only a handful of people were mining Bitcoin in 2009, which is the same year it was created.
by SamPatt 4y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of this claim.
Only a handful of people were mining Bitcoin in 2009, which is the same year it was created.
- AmericanChopper 4y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- lupire 4y agoYeah, only computer tech geeks were using it then. The kind of people who would do wild stuff like go to college and install Linux on PlayStations.
- lottin 4y agoI don't know if Linux users had (have?) much sympathy for bitcoin.
- idiotsecant 4y agoI think Linux users are humans with a range of interests.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoI'd say 2009-2012 it was mostly Linux users, at least the communities I was in.
- greycol 4y agoI know a gui for bitcoin core was available for windows machines by at least the end of 2010 as that's what I used when I was first reading about it.
- lottin 4y agoThe original bitcoin software ran on Windows if I'm not mistaken, so I don't know about "mostly Linux users". Maybe it was different in the US. In Europe I get the impression the FOSS community is predominantly left-leaning. My local Debian community certainly is, and they're anti-cryptocurrency (like myself). Slashdot was also quite skewed against bitcoin, and that was a pretty international geek readership.
- kolinko 4y agoIt was mostly hackerspace/linux kind of people back then.
- jefftk 4y agoThe 2009 academic year runs from Fall 2009 through Spring 2010, so it may be a bit later than you're thinking?
- cj 4y agoNot really a stretch. I have a similar story that I can attribute to 2009/2010 (attempting to mine on the person's computer I was living with at the time)
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoThe first Bitcoin difficulty adjustment happened on Dec 30 2009. Which means that for entirety of year 2009 there was on average just one computer mining Bitcoins.