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110 sats \ 5 replies \ @oliverweiss 16 Aug \ on: The Stacker News before Stacker News was 'WitCoin' meta
Oh, very nice, never heard of witcoin. So it was very short lived. Why was that?
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234 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 17 Aug
It was too early.
The size of the bitcoin "community" was a miniscule fraction of it today, which itself is a miniscule fraction of the broader Q&A/Link sharing social media landscape (from which Reddit, Stack Overflow, etc. are frequented by).
Also, early bitcoiners were not fond of dropping 0.01 BTC (~$0.01) just to reply to a post, for example.
The two founders, an ideas guy and a dev, kind of clashed if I remember correctly. If I remember correctly the dev was open to shitcoinery. And then the dev had a number of issues with his personal life. Witcoin stagnated and before completely wilting away, was hacked, and shuttered.
In other words, Witcoin did not have a K00b -- not even close.
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 17 Aug
All that, but especially:
In other words, Witcoin did not have a K00b -- not even close. (And team, of course 😉)
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 17 Aug
Thanks, very interesting../
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56 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 16 Aug
Many of us say SN is early and WitCoin was 10 years early-er.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 16 Aug
Indeed, and surprisingly soon after Bitcoin was born.
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