How the first crypto guys made money.
By Maxime Laurent · 2025-12-18 10:14
How the first crypto guys made money.
Before trading apps and ETFs, people earned $BTC by pure curiosity — faucets, mining, and patience.
Back in April 2010, Gavin Andresen launched the very first Bitcoin Faucet. The idea was simple: solve a captcha, get 5 $BTC. No KYC, no wallet drama, no influencer threads. Just free coins, because Bitcoin needed users more than hype.
I love this story because it smells like the early internet — experimental, naïve, generous. Nobody thought in dollars back then. $BTC wasn’t an investment, it was a toy for nerds and idealists. You clicked, you learned, you stacked without knowing it.
Today, those same 5 $BTC are worth around $435,000. Enough to buy a nice place near the sea and disappear quietly 🌊. Faucets like that are gone, of course. The era of free abundance is over. Now the price of entry is time, conviction, and stress.
Different game, same lesson: the biggest gains come when nobody is looking. C’est fou, non? 🔥
#BTC #BitcoinHistory #CryptoFriture #EarlyCrypto #BitcoinLife
Before trading apps and ETFs, people earned $BTC by pure curiosity — faucets, mining, and patience.
Back in April 2010, Gavin Andresen launched the very first Bitcoin Faucet. The idea was simple: solve a captcha, get 5 $BTC. No KYC, no wallet drama, no influencer threads. Just free coins, because Bitcoin needed users more than hype.
I love this story because it smells like the early internet — experimental, naïve, generous. Nobody thought in dollars back then. $BTC wasn’t an investment, it was a toy for nerds and idealists. You clicked, you learned, you stacked without knowing it.
Today, those same 5 $BTC are worth around $435,000. Enough to buy a nice place near the sea and disappear quietly 🌊. Faucets like that are gone, of course. The era of free abundance is over. Now the price of entry is time, conviction, and stress.
Different game, same lesson: the biggest gains come when nobody is looking. C’est fou, non? 🔥
#BTC #BitcoinHistory #CryptoFriture #EarlyCrypto #BitcoinLife
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