It was a very weird time. Felt like a financial playground, really the wild west...no feds were about to come galloping in when the stagecoach got robbed, and the only justice was a public lynching by the forum mob.
If anyone is looking to buy some nostalgia, I think I still have some ASICMINER shares around here somewhere...
It is crazy that out of all of the thousands of operations back then, only 1 remains. No need to have to go digging for imaginary ASICMINER shares for nostalgia (I owned a bunch too) when you can still participate in what NASTY MINING started on the GLBSE more than 10 years ago, and remains actively trading and paying out weekly distributions to this day... So many things have been overcome in the last decade, it feels surreal to be the only one left standing. Someday that will garner the respect it deserves as surviving the test of time in crypto is not an easily accomplished task (or there would be more than 1 operation left standing).
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