Christopher Jeffrey acknowledged that a mentality around the infeasibility of a consensus protocol re-implementation has existed since the very early days of Bitcoin. (bitcoinmagazine.com)
This is a far cry from the early days of the bitcoin craze, when the currency was largely linked with the now - shut down «Silk Road,» which was allegedly used to sell drugs and other illicit items. (fortune.com)
In the early days of bitcoin, enthusiasts could use ordinary video graphics cards to profitably process computations needed to mine the cryptocurrency. (cnbc.com)