Remember when Bitcoin was new and.....

[RoseMann]

I remember in 2011 when you could watch ads that payed 0.01 btc each, i found them on this very forum and used to watch them all day from work. #GoodTimes

What do you remember from the early Bitcoin days? Share your memories here! 

[jhenfelipe]

I don't know about bitcoin during its early years (2009 - 2014), but way back early 2015, my first time in bitcoin world, I can depend my earnings through faucets only. I mean, claiming on faucets were really worth it. I used to do it only during my spare time and as far as I remember, I'm earning a minimum of BTC0.001 per day. Unlike today, it is really hard to get that value even you spent so much of your time and effort imo because faucets already have low rewards.

[7788bitcoin]

I hope we are still in the "Good time" and bitcoin will continue to progress. Hopefully in a few years' time, I will tell others that each post on bitcointalk would give me 300 bits (which could be a big amount in 2020!).

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I was not around then,  unfortunately.   I'd probably have over a million posts and a million dollars by now.  That must have been so cool to earn that amount of money--I can't imagine what faucets were paying back then, and sig campaigns.  Did those exist in 2011?

You know of course that in 2020 we could all be looking back fondly on 2016.  I am hoping that happens.

[lite]

I used to hunt herbs on a game called dragon's tale, i'd usually make around .2 btc profit(sometimes .5 btc)on .1 btc licence and gamble them for level up lol. it was fun back in 2012-13.

[TippingPoint]

I remember buying my first Bitcoin for $35 or $38, and I only bought one.

[bamboylee]

It was too late for me to learn about bitcoin. the price was too high now. But even if I have heard about it in its early years, I may have not believed in it. Its price was too low back then and I probably will have reservations if the coins will be just another scam.

[pooya87]

i remember the surge to the moon and the time that everybody could mine bitcoin back at their home with their PC and only using a decent GPU and earn a lot of money doing this.
but sadly i was too lazy to start mining bitcoin back then

[Doamader]

I remember someone spamed my email about bitcoin, i had read a bit and deleted it considering it just another hyip. I had joined bitcoin just last year and im happy to be here nowadays, able to know almost all news and projects going live around bitcoin world.

[Coding Enthusiast]

i remember when you could claim 5BTC from faucets

it is more correct to say i know about it rather than remember!

[UngratefulTony]

The max_block_size was non-existent, and when implemented was significantly above average daily transaction demands.

[ethereumhunter]

I don't know about bitcoin during its early years (2009 - 2014), but way back early 2015, my first time in bitcoin world, I can depend my earnings through faucets only. I mean, claiming on faucets were really worth it. I used to do it only during my spare time and as far as I remember, I'm earning a minimum of BTC0.001 per day. Unlike today, it is really hard to get that value even you spent so much of your time and effort imo because faucets already have low rewards.

i have this experience too. in 2015, its easy to reach 0.001BTC but now the rewards its really small and need weeks to reach 0.001BTC. and from faucet i can have budget to trading bitcoin-altcoin, i meet many market exchange in outside and trade many coins. for me its really good experience and i learning so much with this.

i have experience when the rate bitcoin is under $300 and its a really sad. but now, i guess the rate will still up so we can be happy even if we only have small bitcoin.

[Foxpup]

and sig campaigns.  Did those exist in 2011?

No. It was a wonderful time of joy and innocence, with ignore lists populated by kooks and trolls instead of spammers. Oh, how I yearn for those days.

You know of course that in 2020 we could all be looking back fondly on 2016.  I am hoping that happens.

I hope not. That would mean the future's even worse!

[davis196]

I remember in 2011 when you could watch ads that payed 0.01 btc each, i found them on this very forum and used to watch them all day from work. #GoodTimes

What do you remember from the early Bitcoin days? Share your memories here! 

I got familiar with bitcoin when the price hit $1200 back in 2013.

Bitcoin was in the news evey day and it was trending.

I wish i was mining btc back in 2010.

[shinratensei_]

I remember in 2011 when you could watch ads that payed 0.01 btc each, i found them on this very forum and used to watch them all day from work. #GoodTimes

What do you remember from the early Bitcoin days? Share your memories here! 

At the price of bticoin is $1 for each, i noob to not invest all of my money in them and i'm very feel so sorry in my self about that. and during several month the price is increasing with unpredictable into more than $1000 and damn, I don't take this moment.

[Soros Shorts]

I remember back in the day when it was common for most posters in the forum to have 500, 1,000 or even 5,000 BTC  and more at their disposal. Reading some of the posts now it appears that many people do not even have 2 x 0.1BTC to rub together. Even taking into account the exchange rate going up the average wealth of posters seems to have dropped considerably. Why is this so?

[btvGainer]

I remember in 2011 when you could watch ads that payed 0.01 btc each, i found them on this very forum and used to watch them all day from work. #GoodTimes

What do you remember from the early Bitcoin days? Share your memories here! 

You must have earned lots of btc then.Hope you saved some to date.
I wasn't lucky enough to knew about bitcoin at that time but even I did,given my impatient nature,I am sure I would have sold many at slightest increase of price
It is better to repent not having something than losing it

[johnnyyash]

though i came to know of btc..2014 and i guess then it was still cheaper in exchanger rate, when buying or purchasing..though i didnt take it serious then, thinking is somekind of waste going into it...but to my supprise last year 2015, it was hit on the internet and its also serve as source of payment and one can invest with it...what really turn me on about btc, was collecting of satoshis from different faucets that can make up a bitcoin...though it needed time and effort... though i love that idea of it..

[Kakmakr]

I remember the days when a CPU/GPU would still earn you some Satoshi's if you over clocked it to it's max. ^lol^ The faucets gave out enough bitcoins to buy nothing at all, so nothing changed since then. I still have some of those Satoshi's gathering dust in a Bitcoin address created just for faucets. ^smile^

In 2070 those Satoshi's will be worth a fortune, but I will not be around to have the pleasure to use them, my kids might be.

[justdimin]

I didn’t know how bitcoin was from the early days but I do remember what I did from the first time I joined the bitcoin world. I claimed faucets, watched hundreds of ads and I typed captchas, and I did all of that all day long, especially the captchas, I used to type till my fingers can’t move anymore but I just got some 0.0001 BTC.