A look back at some legendary posts from Bitcoin Talk.
Bitcoin Talk is the oldest, and most visited forum dedicated to Bitcoin and alts since the beginning of cryptocurrency. This forum has some amazing posts that made history. Since a lot of people don't know that they are even on the forum I think it's a good idea to share them with the community. Before we start, full credits for this post go to /u/JohannesHa from Reddit.
First Post ever from Satoshi himself
Post that caught Ross Ulbricht (DPR) (Founder of Silkroad)
Get 5 Bitcoins for free faucet
Some weird fact: Hal Finney died in 2014 but the last time someone used his Bitcointalk account was in 2017 🤔 Here is the proof: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436
First purchase for bitcoin--2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins
The famous 'We are the New Wealthy Elite' post
Thread where a guy was auctioning 10,000 bitcoins for $50 but NOBODY wanted to pay that much
guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000
first reported major theft of Bitcoins
I am sure you will have fun reading all of these. I personally discovered some new ones while putting up this post and every single one of them was a great read.
When in doubt about the prices and the state of the market just look what was happening a few years back. Faucets giving away 5 BTC, the guy that got 260k BTC for $2.8k and two pizzaz worth 10k BTC... It should make you feel a lot better about the future.
Wow nice job, you found the most interesting things, I will certainly go through it. Gavin helping the CIA is interesting for me now the BCH / BTC fight is heating up. It is bizarre that BCH proponents almost worship Gavin while he gave a presentation to the CIA (this made Satoshi leave right) and they think that the entire core dev group of hundreds of individuals is compromised because three of them work for a company that received funding from AXA.
It's really stupid that we even need to have a debate on BTC vs BCH. Everone who is sane enough knows that one is the original project and one is a fork. It is just mind boggling how much time and money Ver & Co are spending on misinforming people...
As for the links, I found them in a Reddit post and wanted to archive them on my blog. It's great to look back at these when people start spreading panic and fud.
I wonder who even buys into BCH's crap.. Seems like most of the Crypto community sees it as a joke
Most of the investors are probably the type of person who joined coinbase and saw 'Bitcoin Cash'? Wow its so much cheaper than a Bitcoin I'll buy this one, without realizing you can own fractions of a coin
Well there is one truth in crypto: scamcoins pump the most.
I am not saying BCH is a scam, but it definitely has shady business tactics which is why I would put it into this category.
Remember Roger Ver won't mind Bitcoin becoming paypal. https://coinjournal.net/roger-ver-paypal-acceptable-risk-bitcoin/
Very very cool, bitcoin history is fascinating
these were all absolutely fantastic. some of them I've had the pleasure of reading previously, but it was nice to freshen up on them. others I was not even aware of. thanks for taking the time to put all of this together.
I don't know if you're still around, but this is still a good collection of Bitcoin related posts. I'll bookmark it for future reference.
This post is gold.
In hindsight, we - the early herd - should stop worrying and just HOLD. People back then had the same doubts about crypto and look what happened.
Now imagine what will happen when the herd of average Joe's arrives in the market.
This. People think just because Bitcoin reached 20k already last year it can't do it again or go even higher. This has been the case every year since the genesis block.
Well, almost every year, but still ;)
I wonder if the pizza guy bites his ass now or when BTC was around 20k USD.
Is he known by any chance today?
From what I know that guy was actually the first person to realize that ASIC mining will be a thing in the future. He was also a programmer for some gaming company (all of this knowledge is coming from Reddit comments so take it with a grain of salt).
Whatever the case, if he was willing to spend 10k on a pizza I am sure he had another 100k stashed away.
In regard to the point that Hal had activity on the Bitcointalk forums after he died, see this post by an admin:
Bitcointalk link
Additionally, here are the two posts that were made from his account in 2017. I really don't think Hal would say "I am risen"....
It's fun to speculate that Hal was Satoshi but I think it's equally or more likely that Satoshi willingly vanished from Bitcoin in order to keep it in line with his "vision" - completely decentralized (no figurehead). Though I suppose that's a different debate entirely.
Great post
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