01-04-2023, 11:08 AM
On Bitcoins birthday, here is a reminder that in 2010 you could have claimed 5 Bitco
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Gavin Andresen was the lead developer for a part of the Bitcoin digital currency project, working to create a secure, stable "cash for the Internet." Andresen discovered Bitcoin in 2010, considering its design to be brilliant. Soon after he created a website named The Bitcoin Faucet which gave away Bitcoin.</p> <p>All that the user needed to do was solve the old style captcha - which took approx 10 seconds! - and that was it. 5 Bitcoin would have been yours. It was likely that you could have done this at least once every day. This is how the website used to look to the user... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com">https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com</a></p> <p>So there you go, how times change. Every one of us could have visited each day and claimed 5 Bitcoin, netting us approx $83,340 a day, just for solving a captcha. </p> <p>I just thought I would share this interesting factoid on today - Bitcoins birthday - for those who never knew about this piece of history!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aoc_ftw"> /u/aoc_ftw </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/102j16i/on_bitcoins_birthday_here_is_a_reminder_that_in/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/102j16i/on_bitcoins_birthday_here_is_a_reminder_that_in/">[comments]</a></span>
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Gavin Andresen was the lead developer for a part of the Bitcoin digital currency project, working to create a secure, stable "cash for the Internet." Andresen discovered Bitcoin in 2010, considering its design to be brilliant. Soon after he created a website named The Bitcoin Faucet which gave away Bitcoin.</p> <p>All that the user needed to do was solve the old style captcha - which took approx 10 seconds! - and that was it. 5 Bitcoin would have been yours. It was likely that you could have done this at least once every day. This is how the website used to look to the user... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com">https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com</a></p> <p>So there you go, how times change. Every one of us could have visited each day and claimed 5 Bitcoin, netting us approx $83,340 a day, just for solving a captcha. </p> <p>I just thought I would share this interesting factoid on today - Bitcoins birthday - for those who never knew about this piece of history!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/aoc_ftw"> /u/aoc_ftw </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/102j16i/on_bitcoins_birthday_here_is_a_reminder_that_in/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/102j16i/on_bitcoins_birthday_here_is_a_reminder_that_in/">[comments]</a></span>