How many people were into bitcoin in 2009?

[sirminesalot]

Maybe a  few 100s. Boy! $5 would gave gotten me $4.4 million. I need to go back in time

If we only wishes were roses, all men would have loved to go back in 2009 to gather more Bitcoin but believe you mean, some folks wouldn't still believe in it still.

yes indeed people's beliefs are different, but we see a lot of people who regret after they consider bitcoin is trivial. in 2009, only a few people joined and as time went on bitcoin grew and more and more people were using it.

[jhache]

I started hearing about bitcoin in 2010, but I really didn't know what it was about and I was also busy with the university so I couldn't give then enough care or interest, only now that I'm giving it a real use I understand the benefits and utilities that blockchain can provide us.

[Shiversnow]

I think in the year 2009 where the bitcoin started I guess there few people who know it and we all know that from the start the price of bitcoin is very low and too cheap where you can buy millions of bitcoin. If you see the number of people from 2009 to 2018 you can really see the big different and I think in the coming years it will become more or double.

[jatin729]

I heard somewhere in 2011 when bitcoin price was 0.1 USD than someone from silicon valley USA invested into bitcoin and grabbed most of shares.
You could imagine silicon valley people had found potential of bitcoin in 8 years ago.

[ardhigalau]

It's very difficult to track the footprint of bitcoin users in 2009, it could be 100 people or even more. But one thing is certain, because they we can now enjoy bitcoin which has undergone many stages of development.

[jimskiy]

Maybe many people have lucky by joined bitcoin at 2009 and got much profit with lower price of bitcoin under $100 in 2009, I will doing the same thing if know bitcoin and altcoin at 2009 and buy bitcoin more, hold for long time.

[tahozor]

Only in October 2009, BTC received the first course. And he was speculative. At this stage, the fans were the only ones who owned cryptography fans and he had practically no value. On March 30, 2010, a user at SmokeTooMuch on the BitcoinTalk forum launched an auction for the sale of 10,000 bitcoins with a starting price of $ 50. No one wanted to buy a cue ball.

[sehoon]

Was it in the 100s or 1000s? I tried googling without any luck.

Also, a quote I saw a lot after the recent talk by everyone's favourite: “Fuck Raspberry Pis, if you can't afford a $20,000 node to help the network, piss off.”

Watched the whole thing and what was actually said: “Quite frankly, I don't care about Raspberry Pis. If you have been in Bitcoin since 2009 and you can't afford a $20,000 node to help this network, piss off.”

So, what would that mean? How much would that help in terms of decentralization and the network in general if everybody that was into bitcoin in 2009 had a $20,000 node?

I don't think there is a lot. My brother knew about it in 2011 but he doesn't know how to get it. And some of the people who knew about bitcoin didn't trust bitcoin because of some issues like security and some actually believed that it is worthless.

[Riddikulo]

Less than 1000 people I think

I suppose, if you really want to get this information, you will succeed in it. Meanwhile, there is no reason to know about the number of people, who worked with Bitcoin in 2009. It is important that now millions do it.

[NoirSuccubus]

I am investing since 2012 and then I don't think that we were a lot, but in early 2018 the crypto world was just insane. Crypto was just everywhere.

[Pattart]

Maybe a  few 100s. Boy! $5 would gave gotten me $4.4 million. I need to go back in time

If we only wishes were roses, all men would have loved to go back in 2009 to gather more Bitcoin but believe you mean, some folks wouldn't still believe in it still.

yes indeed people's beliefs are different, but we see a lot of people who regret after they consider bitcoin is trivial. in 2009, only a few people joined and as time went on bitcoin grew and more and more people were using it.

It was precisely the beginning of mass adoption when it began in 2012 where prices skyrocketed so high to $1200. in 2009 I actually started an online business like PTC, blogs, and so on. but I haven't heard of bitcoin in that year, it looks like bitcoin in that year hasn't had many users, so there is still minimal information about bitcoin..

[Broly46]

I didn’t know bitcoin until 2014, I don’t know who could have better knowledge about bitcoin other than the developer themselves, btw 2009 I was addicted into something else, definitely won’t be  interested in something so ridiculous like bitcoin.

[Janation]

I don't think there is a lot. My brother knew about it in 2011 but he doesn't know how to get it. And some of the people who knew about bitcoin didn't trust bitcoin because of some issues like security and some actually believed that it is worthless.

I think your brother are lazy not knowing how to get them and I think he is regretting he did not buy one.

A lot of people bought Bitcoin at its early stages and do not know the capability of it pumping, making a lot of people rich because of how popular will it be in the future. I knew Bitcoin in 2010 but I did not bother buying them since I did not know it is for sale, I am just watching a news about it being accepted in pubs. If I am just capable of standing on my own feet at that time, I might be rich by now.

[cellard]

An interesting statistic would be to know how many downloads happened on that year of the bitcoin binaries, which I think were at first posted on the mailing list, somewhere on sourceforge, and im not sure when the bitcoin.org site started or if it was posted anywhere else.

With that you would get a guesstimate, excluding people downloading the same binaries once, or the same people downloading different updates, but you could extrapolate something useful.

I don't see no other way. I don't think there's a log of amount of nodes of 2009, that would be ideal tho.

[loveinberlin]

I think that not as many as now and as many as in the future. To my mind. btc will become the main currency and this will influence the flow of money all over the world. All people will see its benefits

[Olayinka225]

Am very sure quite a few people would be into bitcoin that year, because virtually all of them won't just believe in what they're investing into. Why because: bitcoin is just coming them with no bearing then, few or no people would believe it has a future and potential then untill when it started booming and become commodity for everybody to have.

[jake zyrus]

In 2009 there are still few people who know about bitcoin because the price is very low, and many people are still not interested.

I don't think so maybe at first the value is low cause we didn't know if they hit or not in the market but suddenly in little time it become popular cause the value is unpredictable.

[xanxus.kun]

I am one of the jealous human beings who regret not investing into Bitcoin when the prices are around $5.00/btc. Though I am still quite thankful that I somehow get to know it and now I am working to get more Bitcoin. Now I am looking for worthy altcoin I can invest into and patiently wait for the pump.

[OkaNobu]

Depends on the area lol  I sure am a lot of it are used in gamling and in betting before but as of now it's taken the world by storm

[valisa]

in 2009 people had a lot of bitcoin but most of them had exchanged the bitcoins they had, this information I had read on the news. there are also people exchanging their bitcoins with just a slice of pizza. because they don't understand if bitcoin prices will rise in 2017