Yo, initial block download through the early #bitcoin blocks is WILD to watch live!
Early blocks were mostly empty and therefore trivial to verify so the laptop FLIES through them. Dayum!
Discussion
It's starts going slower around 2013.
🥷💻₿ 
That’s going to be me soon. Have the USB flashed and ready, will install Linux as soon as I get my hands on some internet connection.
Little things you don't realize when you're doing an IBD on a weaker pi than Satoshi's v0.1 dev laptop. These laptops are about the same cost as a pi based node, but leaves ahead in reliability, performance, usability, basically every metric!
Yup! Hoping to convince more and more Bitcoiners to migrate their nodes off Raspis and onto better, cheaper equipment!
And then 2017 arrives.
