TEN CLASSIC Bitcointalk posts.

[FatFork]

As it's been a couple years, do you think any more "CLASSIC" Bitcoin threads have been started?

I think this one should be the thread of the decade (or at least get a 'honourable mention'). The debate started in 2011 - still active almost ten years later.
 Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

Other than that, this topics are also worth mentioning, imho:
 Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
 The Bitcoin Forum is 10 years old!

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[Rizzrack]

Nice list of threads/posts you got there 

Some additions imo would be:
PoS proposal (would dare to say 'might' be the birth thread of PoS)
Proof of Activity proposal made by coblee , LTC founder

[NotATether]

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

[OgNasty]

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

That sounds interesting and could be great if presented nicely. Link?

[Vod]

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

Make sure you PM me before you publish. 

[NotATether]

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

That sounds interesting and could be great if presented nicely. Link?

Of the domain? It's the same as my username, notatether.com. It currently doesn't have anything on it and the theme is too, well, yucky - but this is something I have to deal with later.

Just an aside, I'm in the process of collecting notable and informative posts and converting them to HTML to dump on my new domain.

Make sure you PM me before you publish. 

Sure.

[OgNasty]

We Are The New Wealthy Elite:

After reading this, the scale of black market and digital economies and the effect Bitcoin will have on them I am pretty certain we are going to be very wealthy men -- even with a sum as small as 10 Bitcoins. It's just so hard to believe. We are only in the beginning storms with these significant rallies from 10 to 20 dollars. I will not be surprised to see prices from hundreds to thousands in the coming months.

While it might not have come “in the coming months” there is no doubt that this prediction remains as one of the most iconic bullish calls of an asset in human history. At the time he was stating that someone could get rich with a $100 investment. Seeing him turn out to be correct is pretty amazing. As we continue to set new highs and rocket towards wealthy elite status, it is always nice to take a look back at those who saw it coming and dedicated themselves to helping realize their dream for the Bitcoin community.

[JayJuanGee]

We Are The New Wealthy Elite:

After reading this, the scale of black market and digital economies and the effect Bitcoin will have on them I am pretty certain we are going to be very wealthy men -- even with a sum as small as 10 Bitcoins. It's just so hard to believe. We are only in the beginning storms with these significant rallies from 10 to 20 dollars. I will not be surprised to see prices from hundreds to thousands in the coming months.

While it might not have come “in the coming months” there is no doubt that this prediction remains as one of the most iconic bullish calls of an asset in human history. At the time he was stating that someone could get rich with a $100 investment. Seeing him turn out to be correct is pretty amazing. As we continue to set new highs and rocket towards wealthy elite status, it is always nice to take a look back at those who saw it coming and dedicated themselves to helping realize their dream for the Bitcoin community.

Though I definitely appreciate Atlas's contribution to the bitcoin space, especially in terms of long standing ideas to consider, he surely was not the ONLY person seeing or saying those kinds of things in that time period - even though, admittedly, the bitcoin space was way more niche than it is today.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

it is always nice to take a look back at those who saw it coming and dedicated themselves to helping realize their dream for the Bitcoin community.

I agree.  And some of the posts made in the very early days of bitcoin/bitcointalk are fascinating, and it seems like they should have been made 30 years ago rather than 10.

I didn't read this entire thread, but is the first signature campaign post/thread mentioned here?  I recall reading the thread and people being blown away that signature space could be rented out for bitcoin.  Those folks probably couldn't have predicted how much that idea caught on.

Though I definitely appreciate Atlas's contribution to the bitcoin space, especially in terms of long standing ideas to consider, he surely was not the ONLY person seeing or saying those kinds of things in that time period - even though, admittedly, the bitcoin space was way more niche than it is today.

No, of course he wasn't--but not all of them could be considered iconic, and I guess you have to draw that line somewhere.

[OgNasty]

I didn't read this entire thread, but is the first signature campaign post/thread mentioned here?  I recall reading the thread and people being blown away that signature space could be rented out for bitcoin.  Those folks probably couldn't have predicted how much that idea caught on.

I’m not sure I’m familiar with that thread. Do you have a link? While I may not add all the links from this thread to the OP, it’s always great to include them for someone who wants to dig through the thread and find more great posts to read later on.

[FatFork]

I didn't read this entire thread, but is the first signature campaign post/thread mentioned here?  I recall reading the thread and people being blown away that signature space could be rented out for bitcoin.  Those folks probably couldn't have predicted how much that idea caught on.

I’m not sure I’m familiar with that thread. Do you have a link? While I may not add all the links from this thread to the OP, it’s always great to include them for someone who wants to dig through the thread and find more great posts to read later on.

Thanks to xtraelv and this post, this was the first time that payment has been offered for signature sapace:

Signature Advertising Auction by kiba, on March 10, 2011

And if we talk about campaigns, this is the first one that started the trend:
[CLOSED] up to 50 people, get paid 0.10 BTC to change your signature by NghtRppr, on June 12, 2011

[OgNasty]

I didn't read this entire thread, but is the first signature campaign post/thread mentioned here?  I recall reading the thread and people being blown away that signature space could be rented out for bitcoin.  Those folks probably couldn't have predicted how much that idea caught on.

I’m not sure I’m familiar with that thread. Do you have a link? While I may not add all the links from this thread to the OP, it’s always great to include them for someone who wants to dig through the thread and find more great posts to read later on.

Thanks to xtraelv and this post, this was the first time that payment has been offered for signature sapace:

Signature Advertising Auction by kiba, on March 10, 2011

And if we talk about campaigns, this is the first one that started the trend:
[CLOSED] up to 50 people, get paid 0.10 BTC to change your signature by NghtRppr, on June 12, 2011

Very interesting!  I didn't realize selling your signature existed before I even joined here!  Also crazy to see that the initial signature price was 5 BTC per month.  Here I am thinking that I used to have it good when I was getting 0.5 BTC per month for my signature.  If only we could short signature campaign futures...  Thanks for posting that.

[libert19]

The post by anonymous is so accurate, it's hard to believe.

[OgNasty]

Another classic thread in the making. Today I started a thread documenting the process of me purchasing a Tesla Cybertruck with Bitcoin. I think this will be a very informative thread not just for potential Tesla buyers, but for those looking back curiously about the “early” days of accepting Bitcoin.

~ Buying a TESLA CYBERTRUCK with BITCOIN ~
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5326636.0

[OgNasty]

~ Buying a TESLA CYBERTRUCK with BITCOIN ~
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5326636.0

Looks like Elon Musk took the wind out of my sails for the Tesla Cybertruck thread.  Maybe that will have to serve as a graveyard for what could have been... 

Felt like this was a good time to give a bump and let some curious future Bitcoiners perusing the forum have an opportunity to read some of the classic Bitcoin threads that have been posted here over the years.  Maybe some of them will have diamond hands someday as a result of their journey down the rabbit hole!