Did you know the original Bitcoin client had a Generate Coins button?
When activated it would use the CPU to mine Bitcoins.
It was removed with Bitcoin 0.3.22 in June 2011 as mining become more specialised and moved away from solo-miners.
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Nice find, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, it was quite tricky to find an actual screenshoot.
What a geme
Agree.
What a fun fact! Thank you for this
Yw :)
I remember reading about this in Digital Gold.
Oh shit.
very interesting, I knew that in the beginning those involved mined with CPU, but I didn't know that the first versions came with this tool.
OMG I CAN NOT BELIVE THE TYPO. NOOOOOOOO!!