I believe Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 (July 2010) was the first such Slashdot story.  I can't speak for Jeff but this is when I first started playing with Bitcoin.

Hmm.... now you have me wondering if that was the first article I saw as well I'm pretty sure it was the one I posted though. Obviously, I didn't pay nearly enough attention to BTC back then for sure either way!

First comment "The US dollar will soon be worthless *ducks*".

How prescient.

No doubt!  

Though, as I've read Beliathon ^^^ mention a bunch of times in other threads, maybe everyone here are still REALLY early adopters and 5-10 years from now, we'll be the ones with the last laugh.

Two big regrets I have from back then are:

1) Not leaving my miners running when I used to get 1BTC per day on 3 vid cards!!!

2) Not buying a shit ton of BTC.

My "excuse" for both are:

1) I felt weird about wasting so much power for something that I figured would not last.

2) It was REALLY hard to find a legitimate way to buy BTC back then.

I post this for anyone thinking the same things today.    DONT. You're a moron! Keep mining and keep buying

I wish I had seen it, because I might have taken BTC more seriously.
In 2010, I somehow landed on a really crude little sight selling Bitcon for Paypal for ~5 cents each, and I didn't seriously consider buying any.

Oddly enough it was a MTGOX story on CBS news that got my attention. I got curious and decided to read up on it. I inevitably found my way here and the rest is history as they say.

The first story had a huge impact.  The price was about 0.008 USD/BTC when the story came out and it then very quickly rose in value to around 0.05-0.07 USD/BTC.  The community were quite excited about the potential of the story; even satoshi was thinking about coming out of beta as a marketing strategy.


That would have been bitcoinmarket.com.  This was the last place I ever used PayPal.  It was cute how all the trades had to be in multiples of 100 BTC.

Amir Taaki, libbitcoin  author, dark wallet dev etc etc. He also has an active accout here on btctalk with the same handler

yup could be him.  i know he is british with a middle eastern background as mentioned here:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/meet-the-worlds-next-billionaires--from-mashables-pete-cashmore-to-bitcoin-renegade-amir-taaki-9042710.html

congrats to him.

cool.  tell him tokeweed from LP says hi.