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by caseyf 2830 days ago
Apr 4, 2011 "Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614

May 7, 2012 "Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939871

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Funny to see the $0.70 Bitcoin reference and debate as to whether it would gain traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053

Hacker News referencing Bitcoin in April, 2011

From what I can tell, the first HN post referencing Bitcoin is this one from February 3, 2009, about a month after its initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
"Over $156,000,000 has been made by over 38,011 bloggers, writers, and artists."

Damn son! That's a lot more impressive than the money raised.