Meet the world's first Bitcoin Mining Museum

[nullama]

Bitcoin Miner, TheCoinDad, has an extensive collection of Bitcoin miners, and has decided to showcase it publicly, creating the world's first Bitcoin Mining Museum.

It was not until 2021 that he realized he might have the most extensive Bitcoin mining collection in the world and decided to focus on helping preserve the history of Bitcoin mining hardware as much as possible. That is how the Bitcoin Mining Museum was born. His collection now extends to over 80 different Bitcoin mining machines from across the globe. To this day, he is still actively adding to this collection.

For the first time ever, the Bitcoin Mining Museum was exhibited at Mining Disrupt 2022 - Miami, Florida.

Some of the visitors of the exhibition included Ning Zhang(Avalon 2 designer) and Liu Xiangfu(Avalon co-founder).



More information:
web: https://bitcoinminingmuseum.com
telegram: @thecoindad
twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCoinDad

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Wow.. this is actually a great idea, and I'm very much happy to see this, because Bitcoin is one digital currency that has come to stay, and as such it is idea to preserve most of the device which was used in it's mining in the early stages till date for reference purpose for our kids in the near future who will want to know about Bitcoin, how it was been mine and how it works. And with such museum like this  it makes it looks practical and real.

[mk4]

Probably one of the oldest Bitcoin mining hardware is some dude's Lenovo ThinkPad that's been totally toast due to him mining all-day in his bedroom circa 2009-2011.

[Warkop]

It's really amazing, honestly I just found out there is a museum like this, and it certainly has really stunning value, I really want to go there and see firsthand, that there is an old-school bitcoin mining tool, which has been in the museum by these creative people,  so that everyone knows there is the first bitcoin mining tool..  cheers 👏👏👏

[nullama]

Probably one of the oldest Bitcoin mining hardware is some dude's Lenovo ThinkPad that's been totally toast due to him mining all-day in his bedroom circa 2009-2011.

The first ever mining device was a Windows machine from Satoshi

Not sure what Hal was using, but that's probably the second miner machine.

And then yeah, even a Nokia N900 might have been used for mining, since ribuck was using it to run Bitcoin... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2125.0

[n0ne]

Probably one of the oldest Bitcoin mining hardware is some dude's Lenovo ThinkPad that's been totally toast due to him mining all-day in his bedroom circa 2009-2011.

The first ever mining device was a Windows machine from Satoshi

Not sure what Hal was using, but that's probably the second miner machine.

And then yeah, even a Nokia N900 might have been used for mining, since ribuck was using it to run Bitcoin... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2125.0

Even a Nokia N900 needs to be added to the list. Went to through the thread and understood hw they've developed the code for the Mobile device. Maybe adding a Nokia N900 and mentioning the history could make people know it better. In the thread saw about the phone to phone transaction of bitcoin. These days we're going doing it regularly, but the 0.42BTC is mentioned as the first bitcoin transaction done from mobile.

[Lucius]

@nullama, you seem to be a big fan of museums, which of course is nothing bad - but a few months ago you announced that the first Bitcoin mining museum is located in Venezuela - and they cannot both be the first unless they were created at the same time

There is a Museum of Bitcoin Mining History in Caracas, Venezuela

[DaveF]

I would really like to see someone start to dig up a lot of the REALLY cool miners that people made over the years.

MrTeal and his Chili kind of things: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304250.0

Some of the oddball things based off of the BE100 chips. The original Avalons and BitFury based things. Getting into the BTCGarden and BFL stuff.
Possibly even the early Innosilicon and CoinTerra and KNC

Don't forget all the early USB ones out there too.

The one in Caracas has a lot and this one seems to have a few, but you would really need a real museum curator to go and start digging up all the stuff from 8 to 10 years ago.

-Dave

[m2017]

A strange and dubious concept for a museum, which may be of interest only to true fans of mining. For everyone else, what could be attractive among square iron boxes with coolers? Their names and specifications? The maximum amount of btc mined at the peak of opportunity?

This is a very narrow niche with a small number of devices and a small number of people (among the inhabitants) who are interested in mining precisely from the standpoint of historical interest. It seems to me that this museum will not be universally popular and will most likely cease to exist quite soon, if measured by the standards of such institutions.

It is impossible not to be sarcastic on the topic: now there is a place to attach spent old asics to miners.

[Leviathan.007]

That's very good to see this bitcoin mining museum somewhere in the USA where people can see the first devices to mine bitcoin and this can be definitely a good idea to have this mining museum for the future when people will have no information about the first blocks and first miners, visiting this bitcoin mining museum can be interesting for any bitcoiner. Also, as far as I know, there was another bitcoin mining museum in Venezulena and I saw that on the news just a few days or weeks ago so I cannot be sure if this one is truly the world's first Bitcoin Mining Museum or not.

[nullama]

@nullama, you seem to be a big fan of museums, which of course is nothing bad - but a few months ago you announced that the first Bitcoin mining museum is located in Venezuela - and they cannot both be the first unless they were created at the same time

There is a Museum of Bitcoin Mining History in Caracas, Venezuela

You're absolutely right.

I'm just sharing the information that is posted online. This museum creator claims it's the first one in the world, so I posted it as that.

Of course it will depend on many things and what you consider to actually be the first one(for example when the items were acquired, exhibited, privately, publicly, etc), but I'm not doing that call. I'm just sharing what I've found, as the original story is written. Also, it could be the case that one museum doesn't know about the other!

In any case, the more, the better!

[Fundamentals Of]

@nullama, you seem to be a big fan of museums, which of course is nothing bad - but a few months ago you announced that the first Bitcoin mining museum is located in Venezuela - and they cannot both be the first unless they were created at the same time

There is a Museum of Bitcoin Mining History in Caracas, Venezuela

You're absolutely right.

I'm just sharing the information that is posted online. This museum creator claims it's the first one in the world, so I posted it as that.

Of course it will depend on many things and what you consider to actually be the first one(for example when the items were acquired, exhibited, privately, publicly, etc), but I'm not doing that call. I'm just sharing what I've found, as the original story is written. Also, it could be the case that one museum doesn't know about the other!

In any case, the more, the better!

Perhaps a few searches or messages online could settle the confusion. I guess the exact date of when the "museum" was opened should be the basis in determining which actually came first. It seems both museums were opened last year. The one in Venezuela was opened some time in July last year. The one in the OP was also opened in 2021 although I didn't see an exact date for the opening.

The more the better of course, but the more firsts the more confusion there is.

[mk4]

how many years did he used his laptop?

What I said was just an assumption.

because mining using our laptop is very hard right, I tried to build my own one last 2yrs ago, I used my Dell laptop so I can mine little by little. But it makes my laptop to crash often, now my laptop becomes a design in my bedroom..

Yea, obviously mining using a laptop today isn't really viable because of how competitive Bitcoin mining is today, but it was very viable very early on back then.

[Haunebu]

This is cool. I usually see miners working together in farms which is why this is something entirely different in comparison. Am a tech fan which is why I would love to go to that museum even though I am not a professional crypto miner.

Probably one of the oldest Bitcoin mining hardware is some dude's Lenovo ThinkPad that's been totally toast due to him mining all-day in his bedroom circa 2009-2011.

Lol. Would have totally been worth it if he HODLED his coins for the long-term which would have helped him earn enough profit to purchase 1000 thinkpads easily.

because mining using our laptop is very hard right, I tried to build my own one last 2yrs ago, I used my Dell laptop so I can mine little by little. But it makes my laptop to crash often, now my laptop becomes a design in my bedroom.

Hilarious. You are clearly a newbie in the world of crypto mining. Laptops and PCs aren't good choices for mining these days.

[nullama]

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Lol. Would have totally been worth it if he HODLED his coins for the long-term which would have helped him earn enough profit to purchase 1000 thinkpads easily.
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Here is one of those cases: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5410867

Mined 50 BTC (worth 50 cents at the time) and now just transferred it to another address, worth about a million.

[davis196]

Who the hell would visit a Bitcoin mining museum? Probably a bunch of nerdy tech geeks and diehard Bitcoin fanatics.
The target audience isn't big at all, so I guess that the creator of the mining museum isn't doing this as a business, but rather as paying tribute to the history of Bitcoin. Anyways, Bitcoin mining hardware is definitely not a form of art and it never will be.
Museums in Europe are full with art and historical stuff. On the other hand, there are lots of weird museums in America. 
I won't be surprised if someone creates a shitcoin museum or an NFT museum in the near future. An NFT museum would be a total hit.
The visitors would see a bunch of low quality .jpegs that were sold for thousands of dollars in the past being currently valued for pennies.

[nullama]

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Museums in Europe are full with art and historical stuff. On the other hand, there are lots of weird museums in America. 
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Well, the British Museum has Bitcoins in it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5408766.msg60691346#msg60691346