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weird-eye-issue • today at 12:06 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

If you were attempting to mine Bitcoin with a PowerBook I can confidently say you mined zero Bitcoin

Edit: I thought he was talking about 2012 but yeah in 2010 CPU mining was still a thing


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skinfaxi • today at 12:12 AM

Wasn't the difficulty like 6 orders of magnitude easier back then?

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WarmWash • today at 12:14 AM

ehhh you could CPU mine in the early months IIRC. The issue was that 50BTC wasn't even worth a penny back then lol