It’s been over a decade since Bitcoin was first announced to the world. It was the first censorship-resistant, trustless, decentralized payments network, but the original cryptocurrency wouldn’t generate much hype until a few years later. In the early stages following Bitcoin’s launch, cryptocurrency mining wasn’t even an industry yet, and was quite different from the fiercely competitive space it is today. This made it fairly simple for enthusiasts to mine BTC from their desktop computers, and is what enabled a programmer from Florida to make one of the most important purchases of his life. In May 2010, Bitcoin was still
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