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Re: Forum Time Machine - Mining bitcoin with Pentium processor
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Welsh
on 18/02/2022, 23:55:21 UTC
It's quite mad how this forum is going to be absolutely covered in history when people look back at it in the years to come. Its already a place that is what I believe an integral part to Bitcoin's success over the years, and to be part of that is quite special if you think about it.

I probably still have the CPU somewhere. Taken out of context, my 2010 post makes it sound like I barely had any idea of what a CPU was since I just used the over-broad "Pentium" label, but in fact this was a gaming machine I'd built around 2008, and I chose the specific CPU carefully. It was far from the best CPU available in 2010, but it was probably in the top 5% of retail-oriented CPUs.
Which probably still struggled to play Command & Conquer Cheesy.

I don't like to talk about other people's privacy, but what happened to those 5 bitcoins? Grin Did you sell it or do you still keep it?

My inner child hopes that it was spent on a better gaming rig in the next few years.