TIL that in 2010 a user mined 250 bitcoin on a Pentium computer; valued today at $7.3 million.

In a recent thread there was someone talking about theoretically mining a bitcoin every day in 2013, so I went back and started reading about the even earlier years.

Back in 2010 this one user on the Bitcointalk forum was able to mine 5 blocks, containing 50 bitcoin each, on a home Pentium computer. IN A SINGLE DAY.

Those 250 coins, if held until today, would be worth $7.3 million.

Extrapolate this out, and a single home computer at that time could generate a theoretical $2.6 billion per year.

It’s not hard to see how Satoshi was able to amass such vast amounts of coins in his wallets.

Of course it would have been tempting to sell at many points, and anyone claiming that they would have held it all until now is just fooling themselves.

But it makes you think, imagine if I didn’t bother going to work that year, just sat back and left my desktop to chug away and make my fortune!

https://cryptopotato.com/what-if-you-mined-bitcoin-for-a-day-in-2010-how-much-would-it-be-worth-now/

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