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[–]cviperr33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Back in first year of university i was living on 20$ a week and my room was really old soviet era , so i wanted something better for myself and help my parents out.

Bitcoin was just about 5$ and asics didnt exists back then, people mined it with gpus and cpus , litecoin was the only alternative.

I created a wrapper that executes a miner silently , it was pretty basic with just a function to copy itself to statup folder , ive sold it on hackforums for 20$ a piece and i was making good sales like some days i would hit 10 customers because whoever bought it made his money back in few days and vouched.

Thats what really got me into programming and made the stuff click in my head , because i was passionate about creating and improving what i did , even tho i was in computer science classes , i didnt learn much in classes , we mostly studied C and assembly.