Great question! I would love to know how some of you found Bitcoin early, and do you think you will use that kind of knowledge to invest into the next explosion of value on whatever is the next big coin?

As a computer guy I have had access to a large amounts of computer power over the last 18 years. So as I am just finding out about this, it kills me to know I could have, just maybe been rich. I am old enough to have owed the first stock in Microsoft and Google, so I feel I missed yet another ship. I have been married to the same wonderful beautiful woman for the last 30 years and I have two really great children with children of there own, so maybe these are the riches I have gained. But man I wish I had 10,000 Bitcoins. 

I am having fun learning this, it is all so new and really interesting. I will be building my first GPU mining rig this week using 3 high end cards and also running Hyper-V clients. So I hope to get 5 complete miners (1 GPU and 4 CPU) out of one computer. Going to be fun to try and make it all work.

Rob

Yes. I will be mining other coins. Seems like Bitcoin is a little too out of reach.

i was digital trader thats how i got involve

I read an article about the allinvain hack and thought what sort of idiot would put all that money into fake money.  I came to the forums, was a big skeptic for a long while, but eventually saw the potential after many "spirited" debates.

I think as a newbie I find it interesting to look at the calculation charts that show how much computing power you need. Then look online to see how much that will cost. Then see that the hardware if ordered today, will maybe arrive around June 2014. And then back to the calculation showing me that new hardware I could purchase now and get later will be useless because it gets harder to mine everyday.

Who the heck created Bitcoin? The Joker?

I am Batman! LOL

Rob

is O.P. the KeyserSoze from anandtech ?