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In summer 2015 some skinny kid named Vitalik launched a new blockchain. I read the whitepaper on a Sunday. It looked fine. I downloaded the client to my old Lenovo ThinkPad to test it out. It took three days to sync the nodes which was mildly irritating. I mined a few blocks
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AI visual note: A pixel art illustration shows a person sipping coffee at a desk with a chalkboard reading "Vitalik's New Blockchain Client (Sync: 99%, 3 days, mildly irritating)" while a flaming Ethereum logo streaks across a purple sky above a "Mortgage: Paid in Full" house, capturing the mundane early days of mining Ethereum in summer 2015. The caption humorously nods to the original poster's relatable experience of struggling to sync nodes on an old ThinkPad while casually mining blocks as Ethereum first launched.