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bitcoin · @proofmaster · May 13 '18

$11.90

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.

http://www.coinbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bitcoin-logo.png


[First Post ever from Satoshi himself](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28)

[Post from Hal Finny](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0)

[Guy who invented Hodling](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0)

[Post that caught Ross Ulbricht (DPR) (Founder of Silkroad)](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg568744)

[First Time PoS mentioned](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27787.0)

[Get 5 Bitcoins for free faucet](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183.0)

[Archive of early Mailing List](https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/bitcoin-list/)

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](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0)

[The famous 'We are the New Wealthy Elite' post](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156.0)

[Thread where a guy was auctioning 10,000 bitcoins for $50 but NOBODY wanted to pay that much ](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92.0)


[guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20207.0)

[first reported major theft of Bitcoins](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16457.0)

[Gavin helping the CIA](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6652.0)


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.

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@bitopian · Feb 8 '20

I don't know if you're still around, but this is still a good collection of [Bitcoin](http://bitopia.io) related posts. I'll bookmark it for future reference.

👍 bitopian

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@chapekaloco · May 14 '18

In regard to the point that Hal had activity on the Bitcointalk forums after he died, see this post by an admin:

[Bitcointalk link](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1847311.0)

>I kept his account unlocked because I thought his family members might want to look at his PMs or something, but this is looking like his account was almost certainly compromised. So I locked his account. The person who controls his account gained access via email-password-reset, so his email is probably also compromised.

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"....

>Segwit needs to be activated. I am risen.

>For the record, I do not support anything that Jihan or "Crooked" Roger are doing with BU.

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.

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@cryptogerman · May 14 '18

I wonder if the pizza guy bites his ass now or when BTC was around 20k USD.

Is he known by any chance today?

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@proofmaster · May 14 '18 (edited)

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.

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@franklynx · May 13 '18

$0.08

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.

👍 franklynx

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@michiel · May 13 '18

$0.64

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.

👍 michiel, proofmaster, ninjaginga, wavy

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@proofmaster · May 13 '18

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.

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@sames · May 19 '18

Remember Roger Ver won't mind Bitcoin becoming paypal. https://coinjournal.net/roger-ver-paypal-acceptable-risk-bitcoin/

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@wavy · May 13 '18

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

👍 wavy

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@programmingvalue · May 14 '18

$0.19

Very very cool, bitcoin history is fascinating

👍 kjnk

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@shamsa · May 14 '18

Great post

👎 proofmaster

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@pleasestop · May 14 '18

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@triarii · May 14 '18

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.

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@cryptogerman · May 14 '18

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 ;)

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