265 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 13 Mar \ on: "Guys, I think Satoshi left us" > 2011 Bitcointalk thread bitcoin
It's weird to consider what a nothing bitcoin was then, and how it must have felt, a handful of weirdos doing this thing that you could imagine, in a science fiction way, turning into something someday. But just how insular it must have been. Imagine literally nobody that you knew, other than the contents of this forum, having any idea wtf you were talking about.
And now it's what it is: ETFs, Presidential candidates talking about it, on the mainstream news every day. Must be so surreal to some of those early participants.
I was reading some posts where people were dickering over how much they would pay each other for little things like writing an article or making a picture...they turned out to be very good wages!
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That's pretty much how most open source development is.
The only difference is that Bitcoin is actually money.
Most of the Internet services and devices we all use today were created thanks to a handful of really smart and dedicated people that use their spare time to tinker with an open source project.
“Open-source software is the foundation of 99% of the world’s software,” said Martin Woodward, VP of developer relations at GitHub
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