There's plenty of experiences around the corner, but can those OGs here sit on the stoop as we gather around to listen to the past days of yore...
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Was this just a type of backup? What made it special?
Young buck here only 2 years into Bitcoin :)
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Before seed phrases were a thing, it was the only way to hold your keys. Bitcoin Core itself doesn't actually support mnemonic seeds.
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i heard in some documentary that Mt.Gox used to store the clients private keys in pure unencrypted text files.. wild days..
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That's... kinda terrifying. Glad I was orange pilled after the tech matured more
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Mt. Gox The fact they didn't reverse the chain (like ethereum did during their dao hack) and people believed in bitcoin enough to keep going was a rallying moment and in the spirit of Bitcoin. Folks have it easy now.
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Really great answer - that must have been a truly monumental time.
All power to those who answered the call and rallied around.
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Wait what happened. I want to know more.
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…test!
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testnet coins are kinda something where if you don't know why you need them beforehand then you don't really need them
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I kinda feel like I missed Silk Road (purely from a research standpoint)
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Exactly! Oh. You thought I meant the other silk road?
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I'm a feeble old bastard. I gum my food.
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You know, I'm really enjoying the 1 sat Nemo. I feel less pressure. I say you keep it, at least for me.
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UASF during the blocksize wars
Missed that myself
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Just did a shallow dive into that (Shaolinfry etc) and, somehow, it felt like a weird rerun of a 80s soap opera.
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Empty mempools
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[Nods wisely]
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  1. A recently orange-pilled bitcoin'er missed out on the extremely high signal:noise ratio which has't existed in last few years.
  2. They also missed out of the deep respect for L1 gained directly from just being around the Bitcoin Politics.
  3. Oldfag's have seen so many bear markets that even 20-30% moves in a day aren't as exciting as a new BIP merge
  4. Newbies are yet to develop the BS sensor which an oldie can smell from a mile.
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That's a really nice little list!
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What BS do you smell now?
Dang, someone else said faucets, that's what I came here to say!
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Deciding for yourself what bitcoin is. Currently we have so many people telling you what to think & feel, who to cheer for and hate, it is possible to outsource your thinking to: podcasts, influencers, meetups, and a load of thinkbois. I think this is a good thing to help people onboard, just wanted to note that in the prior times there was no way to outsource this in any meaningful way.
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