Bitcoin Forum

I recently read that Jeff Garzik was introduced to Bitcoin by the same Slashdot article that I was. I'm guessing that it was the introduction to Bitcoin for many folks in the tech community, actually.

Anyway, figured I'd start a tribute thread to the article, because.... well, why the hell not?

So, here it is in all its glory:
http://www.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/online-only-currency-bitcoin-reaches-dollar-parity

Edit: See thread below, there was an even earlier thread on /.

Note to self: Next time BTC is at dollar parity, I will buy the lot of them!

I believe Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 (July 2010) (http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/bitcoin-releases-version-03) was the first such Slashdot story.  I can't speak for Jeff but this is when I first started playing with Bitcoin.

i remember a guy with the screen name 'genjix' preached bitcoin to a community of poker players back in 2010, encouraging them to invest.  nobody took him seriously, including me.  fuck me.

Hmm.... now you have me wondering if that was the first article I saw as well :) I'm pretty sure it was the one I posted though. Obviously, I didn't pay nearly enough attention to BTC back then for sure either way!

Those who thought of building business around bitcoin are mostly millionaire today. Poor me. I missed the train... I'm still running to catch it before it take up speed.

First comment "The US dollar will soon be worthless *ducks*".

How prescient.

For me, it was probably this one, just a few months later
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/16/1316211/bitcoin-the-most-dangerous-project-ever

if only <put your personal bitcoin regret here> ...

No doubt!  

Though, as I've read Beliathon ^^^ mention a bunch of times in other threads, maybe everyone here are still REALLY early adopters and 5-10 years from now, we'll be the ones with the last laugh.

Two big regrets I have from back then are:

1) Not leaving my miners running when I used to get 1BTC per day on 3 vid cards!!!

2) Not buying a shit ton of BTC.

My "excuse" for both are:

1) I felt weird about wasting so much power for something that I figured would not last.

2) It was REALLY hard to find a legitimate way to buy BTC back then.

I post this for anyone thinking the same things today.    DONT. You're a moron! Keep mining and keep buying ;)

I was going to point this one out too.  

There was also this one which brought up bitcoin in the summary:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/0647203/wikileaks-money-and-ron-paul

The 0.3 release story was when I heard about it too, then the wikileaks reference was the second I remember seeing on slashdot.

I think that slashdot brought a lot of people to bitcoin.

I wish I had seen it, because I might have taken BTC more seriously.
In 2010, I somehow landed on a really crude little sight selling Bitcon for Paypal for ~5 cents each, and I didn't seriously consider buying any.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. I think there are a lot of us around here who wished they backed up the truck when BTC was a dollar.

Oddly enough it was a MTGOX story on CBS news that got my attention. I got curious and decided to read up on it. I inevitably found my way here and the rest is history as they say.

Two plus two forum? He might have been the first to post it on that forum if that's what you're talking about. Also they've had a long running thread on bitcoin since early 2011 where several people have become wealthy through investing in bitcoin.

The first story had a huge impact.  The price was about 0.008 USD/BTC when the story came out and it then very quickly rose in value to around 0.05-0.07 USD/BTC.  The community were quite excited about the potential of the story; even satoshi was thinking about coming out of beta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217.0) as a marketing strategy.


That would have been bitcoinmarket.com.  This was the last place I ever used PayPal.  It was cute how all the trades had to be in multiples of 100 BTC.

liquidpoker

Amir Taaki, libbitcoin  author, dark wallet dev etc etc. He also has an active accout here on btctalk with the same handler

it could be him. ask him if he used to play online poker and if he used to go to liquidpoker.

yup could be him.  i know he is british with a middle eastern background as mentioned here:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/meet-the-worlds-next-billionaires--from-mashables-pete-cashmore-to-bitcoin-renegade-amir-taaki-9042710.html

congrats to him.

i don 't know him personally but only by fame and through the use of the tools he crafted for us, having said that as soon as I have an occasion I will ask him for sure.

cool.  tell him tokeweed from LP says hi. 

Based on the date my original forum account was registered, I'm pretty sure that was the story that got me interested in Bitcoin as well.

It definitely was Amir Taaki as Genjix on poker forums. He used to play.

He was telling people to buy bitcoin but unfortunately for him(and lots of others including me somewhat) he sold his coins ultra cheap a very long time ago. Not sure where he stands now, but he was living in an abandoned building not too long ago. :(

Hopefully his situation has improved.

He's probably doing very well with DW's success. 

yup. this is true. i also heard some of his traveling adventures in asia(?) where he ran out of money and had to borrow from his poker player buddies.  his best friend in the poker world is 'stealcity', if stealcity stuck with genjix all these years, getting involved and funding his projects i would think he will become a billionaire too.  for a young guy stealcity has a lot of cash as he was a highstakes poker player.

Very informative article! Thanx man!