WANTED: Time Machine

[squish]

To give myself an Avalon in 2009.

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[tom78587]

Good luck. 

[ZephramC]

To give myself an Avalon in 2009.

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And?
You would start mining and the small bitcoin community of 2009 would notice something very strange and odd with th hashrate. Bitcoin would be redesigned or maybe even shut down.
So this is your plan? :-]

[Pernette]

Good luck. 

ha-ha)

[zrgf]

i'll sell you mine! for 22 million BTC 

[Rex_Heston]

I have some spare Jigga-watts on my Flux Capacitor you can rent for 5000 BTC.

It's a bargain, don't you know!

[DivineOmega]

I have some spare Jigga-watts on my Flux Capacitor you can rent for 5000 BTC.

It's a bargain, don't you know!

Great Scott!

[iamalitecoin]

hell id go back to the first day of FTC mining as well

[nango]

There is the travel in the past idea... traveling to the future could also be a good plan.

Take your small amt of bitcoin way to the future where the value has gone up because of widespread usage => scarcity. Buy some very valuable items, take them back, sell them for more BTC now. Rinse - repeat.

[nango]

Future has the benefit that you don't muck w/ hash rate.

[goldbank]

A time machine to buy thousands of btc when it was worth nothing

[miningdude]

Remember the guy who bought a pizza with 10,000 BTC a few years ago? I would have liked to have received even the tip on that order! 

[evpocket]

to buy 1000 bitcoins at $3 a piece

[J.Jade]

Thought experiments are always fun.

But you're still living in the present. So why not take the opportunities that are available now?

If bitcoin succeeds large scale it won't matter that much if you started back in 2009 or in 2013: It will improve your life.

[osamabinlala]

Never life in the past. Future always has opportunities.

[Malawi]

I am a bit bummed that I did not join the bandwagon when I first heard of BTC 2-3 years ago. I even dl'ed the client and may have a small amount in a lost wallet. I did distributed.net without thinking about getting any return, and I remember thinking that BTC seemed like a cool project, but it just "floated away" from my mind.

Still - It's not to late, it's still in its infancy, and it's kinda fun to do a bit of trading on MtGox, even though I dont have much to trade with.

[Mr. Kirke]

To give myself an Avalon in 2009.

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great idea!

[miningdude]

I definitely don't want to live in the past when it comes to bitcoin. That's why I built my first bitcoin mining rig almost a month ago today (April Fool's Day to be exact). LOL! I documented the historic life event on my blog: http://www.coinminingrigs.com/my-first-mining-rig/. Thanks to the value increase of bitcoin this year (2013) it is currently profitable to mine bitcoin this way. The future as always is dimly lit, however there will always be other opportunities and I will learn from the opportunities I take advantage of today, applying the knowledge I gain to future decisions. Sorry, that's a bit long winded, but you get the idea.

[singula]

Well, in 2009 the difficulty was "1" for quite a long time after the blockchain started - so even with solo CPU mining on some semi-decent CPU you'd make few MHash/s. And with difficulty 1 and 1 MHash/s (which is like single thread on Core2 Duo or similar CPU), you'd end up with about 10 blocks per day, so 500 BTC/day - without raising any suspicion by excessive hashing.

The problem was that not many people have thought bitcoin would have any value at all .... let alone value that high like it was recently (~ $260/BTC), so people looked at it that "if I run my CPU 100% for a day, I'll get something that perhaps is 50 cents worth" and nobody got idea that 500 BTC would have  value about $130 000 dollars in a few years ....

[EvilMadHatter05]

All I have to say is if I could get a time machine screw trying to get bitcoin I go back in time with the specs for it and with it and win the lotto often xD.