Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[1714286932]

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[Wilhelm]

You should be either buying or
Your accepting.

Females crypto influencers actually do so much too.

Strong supports on a weekend promises a good week.

If you can HODL then resisting women throwing themselves at you should be easy  

[eXPHorizon]

"I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”
- Albert Einstein



What do we learn from that ? Sometimes you just gotta be alittle koo kooo

Yes i am a Marketing Genius, i turn the room into the privilege of what i want Muahahah you can not escape the influence .. be you a trillionaire or a normal working man. THERE IS NO ESCAPE

[Richy_T]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

Sadly, what faucets there were still operating were down to small fractions of bitcoin by the time I became aware.

I'd bet most of the wallets receiving those have been lost.

[HI-TEC99]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

[OgNasty]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

Yes, Gavin is a true legend for being the first person to really implement a legitimate automated Bitcoin service.  Even if the service was just to give away BTC, at the time it was groundbreaking.  I'm pretty sure I remember claiming from it one time even, although I may have been late to the party...  It was a long time ago.  I definitely remember visiting the site though.  A shame that Gavin was demonized after being duped by faktoshi and chased out of the community.  I still believe that Gavin was a smart guy and Bitcoin was better off with him then without him, but he believed in a p2p payment network and saw little value in hodling, as evidenced from his faucet creation. 

[HI-TEC99]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

Yes, Gavin is a true legend for being the first person to really implement a legitimate automated Bitcoin service.  Even if the service was just to give away BTC, at the time it was groundbreaking.  I'm pretty sure I remember claiming from it one time even...

Maybe this address is yours.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1GZnkxbjWwQqX8vVXE52ZeZ7P5HHsmBh83

Its still got 5 bitcoins from the faucet in it.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[cygan]

if everyone had a wife like her...

[empowering]

......hangover from hell 

[Wilhelm]

......hangover from hell 

Did you have too much altcoins again 

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[vapourminer]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.

but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet.

now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ergo that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost.

however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[Biodom]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.

but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet.

now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ergo that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost.

however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol.

Did you feel 'early' or already kind of "late' when you entered in 2011?
I definitely felt 'late' in Q3 2013 and blamed myself for not acting upon reading about btc in Wired for the first time in Nov 2011 (at ~$2).
It was one of those "bitcoin is dead" articles, but i distinctly remember why I did not invest: it said that you have to use Linux or something to that extent (to run the chain and the wallet) and I had zero interest in Linux at the time (to my ignorant self circa 2011, it seemed kind of irrelevant, lol).

EDIT Btw, the guy who apparently threw away the wrong HD years ago now prepared a solid business plan for possible recovery of the 'treasury' with a current worth of  $181 mil. The only barrier is his city council's agreement. They would probably agree within 5 years when the payout for each city dweller reaches $1000.
https://www.businessinsider.com/james-howells-threw-away-bitcoin-dump-masterplan-get-back-2022-7

[HI-TEC99]

who of you made use of this service back then?
this site has somehow passed me by at that time...

There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.

You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.

but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011...

Gavin's faucet was probably paying between 0.001 and 0.02 BTC in June 2011. All the pages between these two cover that month.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1156

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1199

He gradually reduced the payout over the years.

[El duderino_]

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[goldkingcoiner]

This will be true once all Bitcoin are mined. Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

[vapourminer]

[faucets]

back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.

but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011. and i cannot find that transaction. should of been the 1st transaction in the wallet.

now before i started mining to i do remember creating a few early test wallets as i want sure if i was doing it right, plus my internet sucked so bad i may of not waited for full sync, figured i did it wrong, and just ignored the early test wallets and created new ones. ergo that 1st transaction from an early faucet (gavins?) to my one of the early test wallet is likely lost.

however since i almost never delete anything i still wonder if i still have the early test wallets, as i have many early wallet.dats on my old backups. and im pretty anal about backups. so, one day, all those old early wallets copies will get plugged in and run against the blockchain. who knows maybe i will finally find out what happened to that early faucet transaction lol.

Did you feel 'early' or already kind of "late' when you entered in 2011?
I definitely felt 'late' in Q3 2013 and blamed myself for not acting upon reading about btc in Wired for the first time in Nov 2011 (at ~$2).
It was one of those "bitcoin is dead" articles, but i distinctly remember why I did not invest: it said that you have to use Linux or something to that extent (to run the chain and the wallet) and I had zero interest in Linux at the time (to my ignorant self circa 2011, it seemed kind of irrelevant, lol).

seemed pretty early to me  as the infrastructure was still pretty rudimentary. btw i was using windows, linux miners were a thing but many miners could run on windows by then. info was spread all over the place, bitcointalk was still the place to find most stuff and a lot was way over my head. and i was used to distributed computing (f@h) so i was already very comfortable building multi gpu rigs and running varied weird clients. but i still took a few weeks to wrap my head around miner software, mining pools, workers, wallets and all that. and that was just the btc side. getting actual fiat was another area that was a minefield. like i was no way doing kyc stuff with some of the rickity "exchanges" that existed then. mt gox needed dwolla, what fun. both are defunct now althiugh mtgox wound up being the ultimate hodl scenario lol. well kinda.

so thats a long winded way of saying judging based the infrastructure at the time, the learning curve, and finding things that actually worked.. well yea it did seem early to me. of course to OG guys lazlo and co, it was old hat by then. but to me i gotta admit getting it all up and running was amazing, to be part of the Grand Experiment.

its a lot easier for noobs to start nowadays. but there still be lots minefields around these parts.