🕰️ 15 years ago, you could get 5 BTC for a captcha. And that was okay
In 2010, a website appeared where anyone could get 5 BTC
just by entering a captcha.
No investments.
No risk.
No KYC.
🔹 This Bitcoin faucet was launched by Gavin Andresen
🔹 Its goal was simple:
to show that Bitcoin works and to teach people how to use wallets.
At that time:
5 BTC were worth cents
no one thought about "investments"
the main value was the experience, not the price
📌 In total, this service distributed about 19,700 BTC.
Today, that’s hundreds of millions of dollars.
👉 The main lesson of this story:
The biggest opportunities often look like toys.
And almost never — like a "chance to get rich."
Bitcoin started not with price.
But with utility, simplicity, and experimentation.
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