Quote from: skottiejay on June 12, 2014, 04:17:07 AM

Quote from: ABitNut on June 12, 2014, 03:59:49 AM

Quote from: skottiejay on June 12, 2014, 02:37:48 AM

But that's poverty. I tried with my little atom notebook to mine and it was just NOT profitable.

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The rich will stay rich and the poor will continue to stay poor.

You could spend $250 on a notebook. You were on the internet. You had time to play around with bitcoin.

once again, you completely missed the point.
in 2011, I was not in the position to do anything but make sure that every living expense I had was spent on making sure I still had a roof over my head, insecurities or taking risks or not, when you aren't sure if your going to be evicted, or if you have running water the next morning, that's when you don't tend to take internet risks on things you don't know much about.

And if I remember correctly, which I usually do. My little Dell Atom Notebook was getting 20mh/s while everyone had their Radeon xyz 20932902's and I was maybe making 0.1 CENT a day. So no, I definitely wasn't making any money off of bitcoin, and no that's not what I would consider rich at all.

And you miss the point of my post. You managed to pay for all your basic needs and a notebook plus internet. Now consider how many people cannot pay for their basic needs. Then reconsider stating that you live in poverty. In my opinion you may not have been well off, but you were not in poverty.