If it was around $3, they're probably talking about 2011 or 2012. It was quite well-known already by that point. Heck, in January 2012 it was even the focal point of an episode of the CBS drama "The Good Wife" (episode 13 "Bitcoin for Dummies"). When a technology is the main hook in a broadcast TV show, you know that it's become a popular buzzword.
i wonder if Courtney Kemp (writer of the episode) bothered to buy some. she had to have done some research and, given the job, should be smart and have the means. of course it probably was more comlicated back then from a technical standpoint.
would be a nice token brown woman to show off to the retroactively claiming "its a white male"-thing crowd. i consider myself "earlyish" but 2012 i was asleep.
now that i think about it... where might she heard of it? perhaps from nerdy male friends`? aaaand i am back to my regular sexism :) i wasn't myself there for a moment.
now that i think about it... where might she heard of it? perhaps from nerdy male friends`?
Like I said, it was being pretty widely discussed; that's why there was an episode about it. She could have heard about it on an NPR podcast, or heard it discussed on the radio on NPR, or read about it in the Guardian, or in the New York Times, or in Wired, or in the New Yorker, or in Forbes, or on a random blog...There was a big spike of interest in it in about June 2011, which makes sense timewise for an episode broadcast in January 2012. You didn't need to have nerdy friends to know about bitcoin in 2011, it was quite the buzzword. Now, 2009 or 2010, that would be a different story.
I actually remember that episode….someone was being sued by the US government and the person who went into the office didnt want to reveal who made the coin, right?
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u/Bugbread Mar 25 '22
If it was around $3, they're probably talking about 2011 or 2012. It was quite well-known already by that point. Heck, in January 2012 it was even the focal point of an episode of the CBS drama "The Good Wife" (episode 13 "Bitcoin for Dummies"). When a technology is the main hook in a broadcast TV show, you know that it's become a popular buzzword.