I've heard of a lot of people that first heard about Bitcoin from the Slashdot article and ignored it. I was probably one of them since I know I visited Slashdot frequently at the time.
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Reddit is a total piece of dogshit.
Why do they archive (lock) threads after six months? Why can't I leave a comment to that post?
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It spread in parallel through 2 threads: the scientific community and the Linux/Tor/hacking/WikiLeaks community.
I hope the Bitcoin peeps never forget the legacy of the later one!
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I first heard about it from Make Magazine and 2600 Magazine. I've really got to subscribe to both of those again.
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