Re: Forum Time Machine - Mining bitcoin with Pentium processor
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Stating source facts is more reasonable than Lol'ing someone's statement without fully understanding it.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184685/percentage-of-households-with-computer-in-the-united-states-since-1984/
Does that answer your question?
Kids these days, eh? Twelve years ago to me seems like yesterday when I'm thinking back on what I was doing at the time--but oddly, when I think about it in the context of bitcoin it seems like an eternity. But by the year 2002-02 it seemed like a lot of people I knew owned at least a desktop PC, and I live in the US. I definitely knew quite a few folks who didn't. By 2010? Yeah, if you didn't own a PC or laptop, you still had some type of mobile device to connect to the internet with.
Exactly. As I already mentioned, the iPhone was in its fourth generation at the time, and to claim that owning a computer "is a lot" is absurd. If memory serves me well, you could have bought a solid budget PC for just over $500 back then.