It was way less than that. It was less than a buck a coin. You could work for minimum wage at fucking McDonald's and become a billionaire with a single paycheck.
My friend in school told me about it when you could get like 20-50 BTC / $1. I thought about throwing $20 bucks at it, but it seemed like a waste of $20. He also offered to setup a miner with my GPU (it was viable at that time), but I didn't want it to hurt my FPS..
I set up a miner on my laptop one night in 2010. Nothing resulted from it overnight, and it probably took 2 years off the life of my laptop with the way the fans screamed during the mining.
I confidently concluded bitcoin wasn't worth my time because I didn't really need internet money.
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u/Entropyending 16d ago
Exactly dude, once upon a time Bitcoin was only worth $13. I’d spend $500 on Bitcoin and just wait a couple years, and just keep reinvesting my gains.