NewDark [he/him]

The initial numbers made it look like they lost a bunch. It seemed like misinformation.

That feels incredibly off. Bitcoin is around 100k now while back then it topped out at ~65k or so?

At least in windows, the hosts file can point from any domain to any IP. In theory you can do things like point advertising domains to 127.0.0.1 if you wanted to make sure web requests never made it off your local machine. I did this a lot back in the day to test websites running locally but pointed to a friendlier name than localhost:randomport

Gross