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points by weird-eye-issue 4 hours ago | 0 comments
If you were attempting to mine Bitcoin with a PowerBook I can confidently say you mined zero Bitcoin

Edit: I thought he was talking about 2012 but yeah in 2010 CPU mining was still a thing

[–] skinfaxi 4 hours ago
Wasn't the difficulty like 6 orders of magnitude easier back then?
[–] weird-eye-issue 4 hours ago
Okay maybe in 2010 you could use a CPU but even by 2012 it was entirely dominated by GPUs and I think even dedicated hardware was coming out around that time or soon after
[–] WarmWash 4 hours ago
ehhh you could CPU mine in the early months IIRC. The issue was that 50BTC wasn't even worth a penny back then lol