On Bitcoins birthday, here is a reminder that in 2010 you could have claimed 5 Bitcoin a day free just by solving a captcha

Gavin Andresen was the lead developer for a part of the Bitcoin digital currency project, working to create a secure, stable "cash for the Internet." Andresen discovered Bitcoin in 2010, considering its design to be brilliant. Soon after he created a website named The Bitcoin Faucet which gave away Bitcoin.

All that the user needed to do was solve the old style captcha - which took approx 10 seconds! - and that was it. 5 Bitcoin would have been yours. It was likely that you could have done this at least once every day. This is how the website used to look to the user... https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com

So there you go, how times change. Every one of us could have visited each day and claimed 5 Bitcoin, netting us approx $83,340 a day, just for solving a captcha.

I just thought I would share this interesting factoid on today - Bitcoins birthday - for those who never knew about this piece of history!