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>>17042082
Figured out mining and how to configure it, but after loading the whole blockchain on a piece of shit pc, couldn't get anything using my cpu. If you started mining before the difficulty rise significantly in 2010, you could with a cpu, but by 2013, you needed a good batch of gpu's to get any rewards. It's nearly impossible to earn bitcoin now without having free electricity and a warehouse size mining farm.
>Buying crypto simply wasn't normie-friendly back then

It still isn't. It's come a long way, but practically from a bird's eye view, nothing has changed. More exchanges, but big time KYC applies to buying any crypto. I'd say because of silk road, bitcoin had been used like paper money, but online. Much less anonymity now than there used to be. Bitcoin Cash is closer to what bitcoin was in 2011. Bitcoin was always more about being pseudonymous than anonymous. BTC is internet gold.