Virtual currency. (2010) โšก Threat to the dollar. (2020)

A how-it-started salute thread to the first #Bitcoin news article on its 10th anniversary.

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2/ The first MSM article on #Bitcoin appeared in @pcworld on December 10, 2010.

A few articles before it referenced BTC (in brief or in passing), but this article had a new narrative: Bitcoin for censorship-resistant payments.
3/ @wikileaks had been de-platformed by PayPal and the author was out to explore how #Bitcoin, an upstart digital money might come to its aid.

How about an entire currency based on peer-to-peer technology?
4/ The idea was weeks old โ€“ first suggested by @nardoism in November โ€“ but it proved polarizing.

@orionwl thought Wikileaks accepting #Bitcoin would be a โ€œgreat moment.โ€ @jgarzik argued it might encourage governments to attack the network.

https://t.co/X6vGklqrB0
5/ But if Bitcoiners were split on the idea. The author made it clear he thought #Bitcoin might be ready for primetime.

After all, he argued #BTC was then increasingly being used in trade.
6/ More people, he noted, were running the client and mining #Bitcoin for a chance to earn rewards.

At that time, someone running the software could expect to receive 50 BTC every 3 weeks.
7/ Back then, the article shows the idea that #Bitcoin was a โ€œstore of valueโ€ or that it had โ€œintrinsic valueโ€ (as an alternative to state money) hadnโ€™t yet been embraced.

The accepted thesis was bitcoins had value as it was payment โ€œfor services and goods.โ€
8) Other #Bitcoin descriptions are more familiar. You can tell the author was enamored with the idea Bitcoin could be an unstoppable software for value exchange.

Given the internet censorship, this censorship-resistance made Bitcoin a powerful tool.
9) Was the author fully convinced of #Bitcoinโ€™s success?

No, but he speculated it could be a tool to inhibit government overreach on the internet.
10) Despite the positive review, one Bitcoiner wasnโ€™t a fan. That would be Satoshi Nakamoto, who thought the attention could be catastrophic.

He left the BitcoinTalk forum, never to return, the next day.
https://t.co/UohOySrIV2
11) But since #Bitcoin is decentralized, the idea stuck. @wikileaks began accepting Bitcoin in June the next year.

https://t.co/fqArODRhmD
12) How far have we come?

The @Pcworld article, written by @KeirThomsBryant, can be read in full below.

https://t.co/1WFvi5APMm

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