Ever spotted that throwback from the Bitcoin forums back in 2010? There's a screenshot floating around showing what looks like one of the earliest promotional pushes in the BTC community. Makes you wonder—was this actually the first time someone tried to hype a project on those old boards? The early days of Bitcoin had a very different vibe compared to what we see in crypto marketing today. Back then, things were way more grassroots and organic. Seeing how promotion and community engagement evolved from those early forum days to now is pretty fascinating when you think about how the whole space matured.
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GasWastingMaximalist
· 12h ago
Haha, back then there weren't any marketing tricks, I was just genuinely enthusiastic about it.
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LonelyAnchorman
· 12h ago
Those posts from 2010 were really genuine, now it's all just tricks.
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FUDwatcher
· 12h ago
Oh my god, the posts from 2010 look ridiculously innocent now...
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MEVVictimAlliance
· 12h ago
Haha, really. The hype back then felt completely different. Now it's all just tricks.
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blocksnark
· 12h ago
Posts from 2010 now look like antiques, haha
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MemecoinTrader
· 12h ago
ngl, 2010 forum screenshots hit different... that's literally where the memetic velocity originated before we even had twitter to amplify it. pure organic psyops before the playbook got industrialized lmao
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BrokenDAO
· 12h ago
Early forum matters, to put it simply, are the result of wild growth under information asymmetry. Looking back now, those "organic" promotions were just a temporary state before the incentive mechanisms were fully established—once the profit chains become clear, human nature takes over. From grassroots to the current state, what has changed is not the promotion methods, but the complexity of game-theoretic incentives.
Ever spotted that throwback from the Bitcoin forums back in 2010? There's a screenshot floating around showing what looks like one of the earliest promotional pushes in the BTC community. Makes you wonder—was this actually the first time someone tried to hype a project on those old boards? The early days of Bitcoin had a very different vibe compared to what we see in crypto marketing today. Back then, things were way more grassroots and organic. Seeing how promotion and community engagement evolved from those early forum days to now is pretty fascinating when you think about how the whole space matured.