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Yeah, 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.
by lupire 4y ago
Yeah, 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.