My Bitcoin Story - Chapter 1 - Summer of 2013 - Miner Drinking Habits
Here we are, as usual, a few good friends and colleagues gathered together on a sweet little terrace nearby the office, sipping on a beer while ranting about random gamedev topics and few crazy ideas. A network savvy colleague is now telling us that he's been putting together some old PC parts to "mine" bitcoins. At that time, Bitcoins were "trading" for about 100$ a coin, and our "mining" friend proudly shouted that he had accumulated almost 50 bitcoins with his homemade setup. That's about 5000$ created from dirty old beige cases stuffed with cat hair and dust mites. "My machines are now casually generating a constant flow of digital money from home, while I'm here, siting with you, enjoying a soothing pint of Blanche de Chambly and eating deliciously cheesy nachos. :)" ...