Bitcoin Forum

I'll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas..

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Pooled mining is a way for multiple users to work together to mint bitcoins, and to share the benefits fairly.

I want to get this out in the open because it is the kind of thing that will generate conspiracy theories:  I'm going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at CIA headquarters in June at an emerging technologies conference for the US intelligence community.

After reading this, the scale of black market and digital economies and the effect Bitcoin will have on them I am pretty certain we are going to be very wealthy men -- even with a sum as small as 10 Bitcoins. It's just so hard to believe. We are only in the beginning storms with these significant rallies from 10 to 20 dollars. I will not be surprised to see prices from hundreds to thousands in the coming months.

P2Pool is a decentralized pool that works by creating a P2P network of miner nodes. These nodes work on a chain of shares similar to Bitcoin's blockchain. Each node works on a block that includes payouts to the previous shares' owners and the node itself. There is no central point of failure, making it DoS resistant.

These are a REAL BITCOIN each worth 1 BTC.  One side has a hologram.  Underneath the hologram layer is a private key.  The first 8 characters of the bitcoin address appears on each coin.

Litecoin is the result of some of us who joined together on IRC in an effort to create a real alternative currency similar to Bitcoin.  We wanted to make a coin that is silver to Bitcoin's gold.

A real charming 1 ounce gold coin with 1000 bitcoins.

I type d that tyitle twice because I knew it was wrong the first time.  Still wrong.  w/e.

It is time we organize our enthusiasm and efforts for NASTY MINING instead of playing GLBSE.

Coins are tied to NastyFans seats and not preloaded with BTC...the potential is there for the BTC address engraved on the coin to continue rising forever.

NastyMining is a private socially responsible mining group established in 2012 that enjoys participating in the Bitcoin community.

Certain users are designated as "merit sources". They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month (which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of merit sources (so that people don't bug them too much), though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.

Q6 How merit points will be distributed to sources every month and in what ratio?
Each source has a different limit per 30 days. The current average is 185, and in total up to 8125 merit could be created per month.

I think you took the message wrong.

I think you took the message wrong.

If you want to be a merit source:

Collect TEN posts that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread.

I'm not sure I understand why I would go back in history to merit posts?... I also can't understand why some people are sending smerits to satoshi when the account isn't active and I assume those merits are burned.

Which part?

Q6 How merit points will be distributed to sources every month and in what ratio?
Each source has a different limit per 30 days. The current average is 185, and in total up to 8125 merit could be created per month.

If posts have not received enough merit for how good they are, wouldn't they have to be from "back in history" for that statement to make sense?  Also, there is a great deal of merit to satoshi's posts whether his account is active or not.

Well sure, any post that is made right now is now in "history" a second after the post, I'm saying going back years in time to merit posts that have inactive accounts. I thought part of the idea here is sort of a trickle-down effect, when you are sending those sMerits to satoshi, he is getting 1/2 of those merits as sMerits, and will never send them to anyone and those sMerits are lost. I guess a "merit source" may not care as much because they can create the merit... my thoughts were to look at current/ongoing posts and selecting ones right now that may be worth merit.

If we go back into *all* history, my sMerits will be spent quickly and will probably be going to users that aren't as active anymore.

I support OgNasty becoming a merit source. He is active in the forum and conducts s lot of business around here (professionally, which is unlike many people around here).

With that being said, I think it is probably too soon to be nominating yourself to being a merit source. I would say to wait a few weeks to allow posts to accumulate merit points.

I would also suggest that only posts within a certain age range to eligible to be quoted for these types of nominations.

Wow.. we agree on something for once... lets pop a bottle...

If you agreed with my post, feel free to leave some merit points :)

You only have 9 posts. Your promotion of the Announcement thread for your own coins/company/seats/whatever should be excluded because it's completely goes against the point of the merit system - rewarding OTHERS for great contributions.

It is time we organize our enthusiasm and efforts for NASTY MINING instead of playing GLBSE.

Nonnakip is you, right?

I don't care if you get source status, I care that people genuinely work to earn the privilege. That includes not patting ones self on the back in the process.

---

And your Top 10 selection are classic threads/posts. Everyone knows about these. And once members realize what merit is and spend some these threads/posts will be the first they look to acknowledge.

You can't choose these within 48 hours of the merit system being deployed and present them as "undervalued" or "diamonds in the rough" posts. You've put minimal thought into your list.

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.
 2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread.
 3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.

Nonnakip is you, right?

I don't care if you get source status, I care that people genuinely work to earn the privilege. That includes not patting ones self on the back in the process.

italics mine
theymos may have just changed this requirement idk
these were mostly classic posts though. well done

If you want to be a merit source:

 1. Be a somewhat established member.
 2. Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread.
 3. We will take a look at your history and maybe make you a source.

I am especially eager to have merit sources in sub-communities such as the local sections.

It's a good list, but not really what I was looking for. I updated my post:

you get a merit...

OG once again proving to be a totally uneducated moron...

cant even read basic instructions.. and that obviously means you are NOT a merit source right now... oh my that must sting.. treasurer, DT... but not a new merit source??

poor og...

I hear some cheap sausages calling your name..

EDIT: using DT1 power to bully people who don't agree with you is the antithesis of what a merit source is all about... as usual a lazy and self aggrandizing post from OG

EDIT 2 : OG's thirst for power on the forum is unquenchable.  Obviously theymos recognizes this and purposefully left him out.  This post only proves it

Why are you such a jackass?

In general I am not, I do have a mission to expose OG Nasty as a scammer, if you took the time to read through the NastyFans thread, I think if you are intelligent enough you would see the same as many others are starting to see

OG once again proving to be a totally uneducated moron...

cant even read basic instructions.. and that obviously means you are NOT a merit source right now... oh my that must sting.. treasurer, DT... but not a new merit source??

poor og...

There are some great historically meaningful quotes/links on this thread. Let’s try to stay on topic.

It's a good list, but not really what I was looking for.

Your list doesn't represent what Theymos is looking for to identify merit source candidates. The discussion is over!

This is a list of classic posts that I feel deserve merit, not a list of posts that theymos is looking for.  Again, let's stay on topic.  ;)

Once we have established that merit sent to these old posts would be totally useless for the finality the merits have been created for, let's agree on the fact that this list has a great historic value and the fact of listing all these posts in one place makes that/this place a sort of museum which has a value by its own. For example I was very happy to find this list in one place - I knew many of those posts, but not all of them, so I have really enjoyed my little visit in this BCT museum, not to speak of course of the nice Clash of Legendaries - the aftershow which has then followed the OP :)

Fun little tidbit: While Slush's pool is the first commercial(?) mining pool, I believe the first case of pooled mining was actually this, by puddinpop (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1458.0).

Reading over that really shows how far mining has come and makes me remember the days when you could pool-hop for additional earnings.

As I've read in another post:

Please help out Organofcorti by taking part in this miner survey: https://docs.google.com/a/organofcorti.org/forms/d/1EgNjL-N6mMEfOsDup2Pr7I5B9sM2LUVZOGcddcBCEFI/viewform

That way he can keep bringing us awesome statistics at the neighborhood pool watch at http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/

That’s right, I forgot about pool-hopping. I learned the best pools to hop from organofcorti in his critical review of pools thread. I can’t remember the name of the thread, something like neighborhood watch.

QA, is this it?

It's mentioned in this post of Slush's pool thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg2439359#msg2439359 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg2439359#msg2439359)


Found this pool neighborhood watch statistics site: http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/ (http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/)

I would of done had you not said that you support OG being a merit source...

OG's thirst for power on the forum is unquenchable.  Obviously theymos recognizes this and purposefully left him out. 

otherwise If I had agreed with you 100% I would of dropped a cheeky 5 on you fella!

God I hate politics.

There have been some seriously interesting and funny threads here over the past few years.  I recall one of them was a scam accusation against a user who kept gambling the money he borrowed away, and then he blamed the lender for his defaulting on the loan.  I wish I had a link to that, but the thread ran for many pages and it was one of the most entertaining things I've read here.

Because sometimes the truth hurts.

OG Nasty's only redeeming quality his how easily he fails at capturing the power he so eagerly tries to chase. His thirst is unquenchable because he never gets a drop!

Any other classics that haven't been mentioned on this trip down memory lane?

Okay, it's not a crime. It's just the first step down the road which brings pretty much 9x% to crime within six months to a year. So, here are some simple easy steps for your convenience.

0. Starting a bitcoin business is a liability. The first thing you need to understand, and you need to understand it well. At sixteen hundred hours while you were sitting around your living room scratching your ear you were worth X. Your life, your ideas, your business, the shit around your house that you own, all that which makes up your life, added together, worth X. At sixteen fifteen, eight minutes after you had started your Bitcoin business you were worth X-k, where k is always positive and SIGNIFICANT. Starting a Bitcoin business is a liability, it makes you worth less. In fact, all the rest of your life in Bitcoinland will be attempts, more or less successful, to limit and reduce that liability. This is the outlook you must have not in order to be successful, but in order to have a shot at it. This is the outlook you must have in order to not guarantee failure.

1. Identify yourself to the community. This means, at the very least, creating a WOT account. If you do not have a WOT account you are not part of Bitcoin business. This is the criteria, no matter what you might think. That's where everyone looks, no matter what social media might be telling you. If you aren't in the WOT you aren't in Bitcoin.

This might also mean making a few social media profiles. The difference between an account on StumbleUpon called MyBTCBiz, a reddit account called BtcBlaBla, a myspace, tumblr, whatever and a forum account called MyBizPr is nil. They're all the same thing: social media profiles. Sure, they may be useful. You wouldn't think to substitute a forum registration for a company registration IRL, now would you? Same thing here.

2. After completing step 1 spend at the very least six months learning. This attitude whereby you think you're great and valuable, so great and valuable in fact that you had the business idea first, then you ran into Bitcoin and then in the heat of the moment saw to that formality of a forum account so now you're ready for "investment" five hours later after dealing with the pesky minimum posts rules is bullshit. Pure bullshit. This isn't how it works, if you've not been in the WOT for six months you are not ready to start a Bitcoin business for reason of intellectual incapacity, irrespective of what you might think. (And yes, of course you will think you're the exception to this rule. You are not the exception, you are just unskilled and unwarare of it (http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html). The rule is exactly about you.)

Yes, maybe if Warren Buffett decided to go into Bitcoin he'd just put a notice on his Berkshire Hathaway website identifying his WOT handle and be ready in five minutes. The reason Warren Buffett can do that and you can't is that you're not Warren Buffett. Yes, one day you might become the next WB. That doesn't mean you're it today, consumer credit does not work in this field.

So, what you do during your six months is that

2.1. You buy some Bitcoins. Get a good idea of what the options for doing that are, how the exchanges work, how the OTC market works (if by now you do not know what OTC or WOT stand for add two months to your lockdown as punishment for being the sort of idiot who, when he encounters words he does not know, instead of investigating their meaning brushes them off to "get on with the reading").

2.2. You sell some Bitcoins. Get a good idea of how that works, how you get your money back out, what the limits are, so on and so forth. You wouldn't want to discover later that you have a billion dollars in Bitcoins you can never spend in any way, other than by donating to the Bitcoin Gates Foundation now would you? What sort of WB would that be?

These are not a waste of time. They are here to give you an idea of how your future customers will be seeing life. You want to buy some Bitcoins even if you don't need them, and sell them even if you don't need to and buy back just on general principle. You are unit testing the currency. Boring? Fuck you.

2.3. You read, on this forum, and you discuss with the market participants. You get your pecking order straight. Who are the movers and shakers? Whose word is worth 10k Bitcoins no questions asked and from whom? Why? You get the history straight. Who were the scammers, historically? How did they do it ? What are the patterns? How did the people who matter react, and why? What does that say about them, how does that color their relationships among each other?

If you don't have the list and don't comprehend how the interactions work, if you look at DeathandTaxes and have no fucking idea who he is, if you think we're buddies cause I mention him by name and so forth you're not done with this. Must lurk moar.

2.4. You ask questions. Only on step 2.4 do you ask questions, by the time you're here you have already done a lot of work! You have sunk into this upwards of a hundred hours of your spare time, whether you like it or not, you've filled half a notebook with dumbass scribblings, you have fucking hand-drawn maps hanging from your bedroom wall. This level of intensity is not an upper bound to aspire to, but a minimum requirement.

Your questions will get a lot of stupid answers but also a complete set of correct answers. Pick the set, disregard the rest, you're on your way.

3. Announce your business plan. If you think your business plan has to be kept secret because otherwise others will steal it you are probably too stupid to be in business (not just BTC, but in general).

Let me explain to you how business "stealing" works: at the time MPEx was created (Feb 2012) there existed GLBSE already, which sucked at that time. Nobody flailing around in a cloud of stupidity almost mould-like in consistency seemed to be aware of it, but GLBSE sucked. And so Mr. P decided to make a securities exchange that worked right and was run correctly.

So, pro tip #1: there's so much to do and so few people capable of doing it in Bitcoin that if your plan makes sense and you seem even remotely competent everyone else who is competent will breathe a sigh of relief. They aren't going to "steal" your idea of doing the absolutely fucking obviously banal, cause so much is needed I couldn't begin to tell you.

Pro tip #2: if you are incompetent, the people who are competent aren't going to steal your business early. They are going to steal it late, just like MPEx demolished GLBSE. They don't need early mover advantage, they will come to your market six months or a year late, break off your arms and beat you over the head with them until you are reduced to a bloody mess.

So, forget about anyone "Stealing" your business. When S.DICE was announced, a bunch of forum muppets rambled on about how it's not worth its valuation because "everyone could do it". And I laughed at them then (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101902.msg1115483#msg1115483) and so to prove my point that they're laughable idiots they declared that they shall do it! It's been months, who has managed to steal the business? You can't steal any business from the competent, and if you're competent yourself you don't even try to, cause it makes no business sense.

Thus, at the very least, step 3 gives you this measure of protection, whereby other competent people know you're doing X and so don't start doing X too. It saves our time and effort, rather than doing something twice do two of the fifty billion things that still need doing.

Obviously your announcement will gather a bunch of crap from a bunch of nobodies. But lucky for you, you've been doing this by the numbers, and you have the list. You know why you don't care what Joel Katz says about anything: what people who don't run businesses say is irrelevant. You know why you care what piuk says about anything to do with the blockchain (do you?).

4. Almost there.

4.1. If you actually got no objections, just pats on the back you're golden. Go do your thing, try your best not to fuck up, when in doubt ask people you trust and that's that.

4.2. If you actually had some objections, do not proceed until the people who raised them declared themselves satisfied. The odds that they don't have a point are dismal, and more importantly, the odds that they wouldn't withdraw objections along the lines of the most favorable construction for you are nil. If someone's pointing things out to you that won't work with your model they're right. If nobody is that still is not proof your model can work.

Stick to this and I might be hearing your name in a year or two. Don't, you just fade into the background noise, yet another of the many who keep paying ten or fifty dollars a month to be part of a new and exciting MMORPG, sorta like the glassy eyed FB credits buyers.

Good luck in any event.

Prosperity is in general the result of the working of free markets. The one caveat to this observation is that market participants have to be responsible. It doesn't matter so much if they are intelligent or not, it doesn't really matter if they're good christians or devout muslims or anything else, but they do have to be responsible.

When some people behave irresponsibly the result is that they lose their money, which flows, albeit indirectly and circumvolutedly but nevertheless unerringly, to more responsible participants.

When a small majority* of participants behave irresponsibly however the net result is not just pain to their own fortunes, but pain spread across the board. All of a sudden you have to be very intelligent, and very experienced, and very well informed to manage to keep your money safe, and often enough even that's not going to suffice.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot has the unpleasant effect of creating a high powered idiot. He can now wreak havoc on the exchange rate, which increases volatility and on the long term hurts everyone involved in bitcoins, because volatility is, much like inflation, an indirect tax on users.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot has the unpleasant effect of creating half a million bitcoins' worth of valueless receipts, which are pretty much indistinguishable to the naked eye from valid receipts. Thus, if you pay on anyone's credit you are basing your judgment not on actual fact, but on an unknown and pretty much unknowable mixture of fact and hogwash.

Giving over half a million bitcoins to a random idiot is a bad idea. There are people whose personal responsibility in this matter is greater than that of most everyone else, people who have in effect acted as lieutenants for the random idiot. This thread is a convenient spot for all of them to avoid the indignity of being called out, and instead freely and willingly admit their mistake, and by admitting it learn from it. Specifically, learn that they aren't nearly as qualified as they thought to play the "banker", and by this make one step towards maybe one day actually being bankers.

The wanna-be bankers are not alone in their hour of humiliation. There are plenty of others who spend their entire day spouting nonsense on this forum, either under the guise of being "journalists" for some monthly magazine that does a couple issues a year or just as random internet experts in everything. Obviously they won't be learning anything on this opportunity as they haven't learned anything on any of the previous ones in their lives. That's after all fine, what would a mining town be without the drunks and general scum?

Aside from these practical considerations, there are some more general points to be taken home by anybody who wants to be a little smarter today than last month, and possibly have a little better shot at actually making money than before.

1. Learn the pecking order. All opinions are not equal. Some people are to be respected. Learn who. Some people are irrelevant and easily ignored. Learn who. More importantly than the who, learn why. Is it just because "everyone else seems to think so"? That's no good, forget it. Is it because they were right when everyone else was wrong? That's perfect, especially if it occurs with any sort of consistency.

2. Business means something very specific. Only the permanently poor imagine business = "anything to do with money". There's no business without a business plan. If something purports to be a business but "it can't" or it just won't share its business plan it is not a business. This means you can't be investing in it. Sure, you can throw money at anything you wish, as for instance the toilet bowl, Ponzi scams or scantily clad girls. However, in order to invest you absolutely need a business first.

3. Learn how to deal with your own mental limitations. If you think you don't have any you find yourself most likely in the situation described here (http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html):


In short: if you're not aware that there's anything wrong with your judgment of "business", "finance", "investing", "money" and so forth that is almost certainly due to the fact that you are very weak on all of these topics, likely significantly below average. You should spend a good deal of time reading and a greater deal of time testing things out methodically before you promote yourself mentally to "average", or even "crummy". This means years. Years.

The advantage of BTC is that it's a very cheap and very clean way to learn about finance. The disadvantage (if we can call it that) is that it's much akin to falling in love: very, very, very hard on the knees. Vitriolic to the ego.

4. Step outside of your ideology. You might have been brought up in a very repressive social milieu in which some particular ideological slant was drilled into you. This is working to your disadvantage, get rid of it. Are you sticking up for your friends because they're your friends rather than because they have a point? Great for facebook, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Are you following the crowd like a welfare state lemming? Great for the white collar slave, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Do you think form is above content and as such it's okay to invade foreign countries and slaughter civilians just as long as nobody says shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker or tits on TV? Great for being an American, horrible for the free world. You will lose money.

5. Re-read this entire post. It probably didn't fully sink in on the first pass. Seriously. Alternatively it is always easier to just not like me. You will lose money.

---------
* This term of... art, let's say, will go down in BTC history.

Hope everyone had a great Bitcoin Pizza Day. As it is the #1 thread on this list (by age) it seemed like a good time to stroll down memory lane with some of the classics.

Happy Pizza Day!
Here is the blockchain transaction:  
https://blockchain.info/tx/a1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d

For those newbies who wants to check the blockchain transaction, this will help:

Fees    0.99 BTC

Lol, so does anyone know if the guy who sold the pizza kept the coins or what price he sold them at?

According to the seller of pizza - Jercos, who at that time was 19 years old, he sold his bitcoins when its walue increased ten times, that is for $ 400. Most likely, judging by the history of transactions, he did so in July 2010, just at that time bitcoin increased in price by 10 times, from $ 0.008 BTC to $ 0.08 for BTC. Jercos now works as an engineer-developer of Inovonics Inc, the company is engaged in radio equipment.

In general, as I thought, most of the bitcoin millionaires became them only because they did not keep track of BTC growth, and those who kept in the course of events earned a little.

Laszlo Hanyecz continued his business, 8 years ago he proved that bitcoin can be used as a currency, but in 2017 it was again questioned, as the price for the transaction sometimes reached $ 200. In 2018, he again proved that you can buy pizza for bitcoins, using the lightning network, he spent 0.00649 BTC for two pizzas, or $ 67, and the price for the transaction was 6 cents.

ENTERTAINMENT. This thread feels like watching a movie with star-studded cast which cost millions on every word they say. Mindblown

Any idea why the thread “We Are The New Wealthy Elite:” is locked now?

I know the OP didn’t lock it unless Theymos unbanned Atlas because Atlas was the OP.

Mods locked a few threads that were getting garbage replies. rip Asian girls thread etc. but I doubt it was Atlas.

Any idea why the thread “We Are The New Wealthy Elite:” is locked now?

I know the OP didn’t lock it unless Theymos unbanned Atlas because Atlas was the OP.

Mods locked a few threads that were getting garbage replies. rip Asian girls thread etc. but I doubt it was Atlas.

In the last month or so that the "we are the new wealthy elite" thread was unlocked, I recall reporting the thread several times because there would be 2-3 pages of 1-2 liner posts from newbies in less than a 12 hour period.  Likely it just became too much work for the mods to delete so many posts on an ongoing basis.

 That’s kind of stupid though.  Won’t they just move to an unlocked thread and post there instead?

^I think people just like attaching themselves to popular historical threads. They don’t always have useful input.

With Bitcoin back in the news, I thought it might be nice to bump this thread and give the new eyes an opportunity to take a look at some meaningful bitcointalk history. 

As it's been a couple years, do you think any more "CLASSIC" Bitcoin threads have been started?

As it's been a couple years, do you think any more "CLASSIC" Bitcoin threads have been started?

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

That sounds interesting and could be great if presented nicely. Link?

Make sure you PM me before you publish.  :)

After reading this, the scale of black market and digital economies and the effect Bitcoin will have on them I am pretty certain we are going to be very wealthy men -- even with a sum as small as 10 Bitcoins. It's just so hard to believe. We are only in the beginning storms with these significant rallies from 10 to 20 dollars. I will not be surprised to see prices from hundreds to thousands in the coming months.

We Are The New Wealthy Elite:

While it might not have come “in the coming months” there is no doubt that this prediction remains as one of the most iconic bullish calls of an asset in human history. At the time he was stating that someone could get rich with a $100 investment. Seeing him turn out to be correct is pretty amazing. As we continue to set new highs and rocket towards wealthy elite status, it is always nice to take a look back at those who saw it coming and dedicated themselves to helping realize their dream for the Bitcoin community.

it is always nice to take a look back at those who saw it coming and dedicated themselves to helping realize their dream for the Bitcoin community.

Though I definitely appreciate Atlas's contribution to the bitcoin space, especially in terms of long standing ideas to consider, he surely was not the ONLY person seeing or saying those kinds of things in that time period - even though, admittedly, the bitcoin space was way more niche than it is today.

I didn't read this entire thread, but is the first signature campaign post/thread mentioned here?  I recall reading the thread and people being blown away that signature space could be rented out for bitcoin.  Those folks probably couldn't have predicted how much that idea caught on.

I’m not sure I’m familiar with that thread. Do you have a link? While I may not add all the links from this thread to the OP, it’s always great to include them for someone who wants to dig through the thread and find more great posts to read later on.

Thanks to xtraelv and this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4567657.msg41189892#msg41189892), this was the first time that payment has been offered for signature sapace:

Signature Advertising Auction (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4342.0) by kiba, on March 10, 2011

And if we talk about campaigns, this is the first one that started the trend:
[CLOSED] up to 50 people, get paid 0.10 BTC to change your signature (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15886.0) by NghtRppr, on June 12, 2011

~ Buying a TESLA CYBERTRUCK with BITCOIN ~
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5326636.0