I was hanging out on a distributed computing forum.  As I recall we were all pissed at Stanford at the time as they were pointsgimping the AMD 4P systems that a lot of dedicated folders had significant investment wrapped up in (aside, there was this munchbucket 7im drove a bunch of us away...fuck you 7im!).  

One day (found the thread, March 2011, 1BTC=$0.78) some guy wandered in,  and posted up a thread asking if bitcoin was frowned upon in our forum.  We were like, WTF is bitcoin?  He gave a brief explanation and 80% of the guys were all "scam, tulips, never work, criminal, GTFO".  I was a silver stacker from way back so I got it right away.  

There was, at that time, no "make money button" yet.  You had to really grapple with the config to mine.  At first it was beyond me and I gave up for a while but I was interested and kind of kept an eye on it.  Some while later the GPU miners came out, probably laszlo's code, and I got a config running.

There was a time I was pulling a coin a day with 2 6950s.

Got Zhoutonged.

Lost a bunch to BFL.

Lost a bunch to Gox.

Lost a bunch daytarding.


edit/ wow, reading that old thread is surreal...thanks Hairy