the background on their desktop. There was even a hokey looking currency exchange site called Mt Gox that some LARPing nerds set up where you could exchange this Bitcoin with USD for like $.27 per Bitcoin (this was in 2010). I was intrigued but never bothered to set up any mining and thought sites like mt gox looked too shady to deal with.

Then I read a bunch of weird extreme libertarians that were preaching about this thing, including one guy that was so invested that he set up dozens of systems in his bedroom to mine Bitcoin, and that heated up his bedroom so much that he got heat stroke that led to some brain injury. And then that mt gox place got hacked. I decided that this Bitcoin thing was dead and moved on.

Even just $100 then would be worth over $8m today. It’s okay, though, because even if I had invested in some Bitcoin for $.27 in 2010, I would have undoubtedly sold it when BTC hit $1 or something like that and thought I had made a killing.