203 sats \ 3 replies \ @newnym 16 Oct 2022 \ on: Who orange-pilled you? bitcoin
I Knew about bitcoin since 2009 or so, but thought it was mostly a another internet fad.
During the first year of the pandemic I got into "crypto" and build a small eth mining rig. I didn't fully understand why it was so profitable, so I went in search of answers online.
In every eth forum I participated there was this unwritten rule that you should not listen to the "bitcoin maximalists". Since I'm very curious I thought why not and went after those maximalists. In a mater of weeks I was orange pilled and sold my eth mining rig while GPU prices were still insanely high and bought btc. Haven't looked back since.
lmao, nice story. You probably would have been banned for asking "why not" in the forum.
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Yeah, one of my blackpilling of shitcoins experiences was being trolled by the infamous berniesanders on Steem. I burned my keys and hilariously there was some 5000 euro worth of STEEM in it at the time. I was that pissed off... I shot myself in the foot.
That led me out towards the Cosmos eco and because of Go I landed in a bitcoin fork project called Parallelcoin, which gave me a huge opportunity to master programming the chain clients in Go and the best Go client being
btcd of course. I did look at gocoin, but it was much more esoteric design.Now I am working on replacing Tor as the go-to choice for anonymising Bitcoin traffic.
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If I remember correctly this was on the r/ethermining reddit. Come to think of it, I'm kinda ashamed for even taking reddit seriously in the first place. :o
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