then went to wikipedia and read some more,
after that I bought wherever I could
(paypal, coinpal, through this forum, youtipit, mtgox)
Topic: A bit of nostalgia... How did you get your first Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 3057 times)
stumbled on it on poker forum in spring 2011,
then went to wikipedia and read some more,
after that I bought wherever I could
(paypal, coinpal, through this forum, youtipit, mtgox)
then went to wikipedia and read some more,
after that I bought wherever I could
(paypal, coinpal, through this forum, youtipit, mtgox)
Started mining with my 5770 back in April of 2010. I believe it only took me a day to generate one Bitcoin with the 5770 at the time.
Wait...you mined at a pool? two years ago? with a 5770? At difficulty 4096? Were you on drugs?
Started mining with my 5770 back in April of 2010. I believe it only took me a day to generate one Bitcoin with the 5770 at the time.
Wait...you mined at a pool? two years ago? with a 5770? At difficulty 4096? Were you on drugs?
I think I mined my first BTC back in the day around April-March 20111 with my 6970 
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Started mining with my 5770 back in April of 2010. I believe it only took me a day to generate one Bitcoin with the 5770 at the time.
Received our first Bitcoins January 2012 from Maged, the first person that bought our honey caramels on this forum.
I put some dollar bills I had left from a vacation to Nepal (I'm german and don't usually own dollar bills) into an envelope and sent that to some obscure address in Canada.
I totally didn't expect anything to happen and wrote them off until after about 2-3 weeks (before I had mined a bitcoin with my on-board nvidia at 3 MHhash/s), suddendly something like 17 bitcoins popped up in my client. Nice!
I totally didn't expect anything to happen and wrote them off until after about 2-3 weeks (before I had mined a bitcoin with my on-board nvidia at 3 MHhash/s), suddendly something like 17 bitcoins popped up in my client. Nice!
A guy named Morpheus ran a PayPal for bitcoin business, until PayPal froze his account. I was lucky enough to get a handful for $1.80 right before they shut him down.
It was june 2010,I was very excited by idea of decentralised p2p currency,I gave it a try and run the client on mining mode on my 1.66 Ghz CPU laptop.Just in one or two days I got earned 50 BTC.At that time in just few days I made 450 BTC but did not knew that in one year 1 BTC will be 30 $.I spent all at so cheap rates I dont even remember now.
First multiple 0.05 coins from abusing Faucet
First 1 BTC from MtGox
First 100 BTC from stealing wallet.dat files
Lost all my coins when purchased big order right after the price crash in June 2011
Karma. First 1 BTC from MtGox
First 100 BTC from stealing wallet.dat files
Lost all my coins when purchased big order right after the price crash in June 2011
First multiple 0.05 coins from abusing Faucet
First 1 BTC from MtGox
First 100 BTC from stealing wallet.dat files
Lost all my coins when purchased big order right after the price crash in June 2011
First 1 BTC from MtGox
First 100 BTC from stealing wallet.dat files
Lost all my coins when purchased big order right after the price crash in June 2011
A friend, in a demonstration of how I could make use of it. Shortly after that I started doing business with it, then the bubble happened and I started speculating with some of my profits and spending more time on the board.
sgornick gave me a free Bitcoin for the free Dwolla dollar I got when I signed up there I think. It was either him or someone else running another promotional gig. I then bought $20 worth of Bitcoin from either him or someone else via Paypal, and then by the end of February 2011 I owned over $500 worth through Keefe and some other IRC #bitcoin-otc regulars.
Ugh, I hated it at first.
For some reason, I guess I did not do enough research I went the Dwolla--MtGox Route
Time it took:
4 Days for Dwolla to verify my account
3 Days to transfer it to my account
6 hours to transfer it to mtgox
To be honest, I wanted to try out SR, but after researching the actual prices, it was cheaper to use Mr. Shadester who lives a few blocks away
For some reason, I guess I did not do enough research I went the Dwolla--MtGox Route
Time it took:
4 Days for Dwolla to verify my account
3 Days to transfer it to my account
6 hours to transfer it to mtgox
To be honest, I wanted to try out SR, but after researching the actual prices, it was cheaper to use Mr. Shadester who lives a few blocks away
I got mine from the BTC faucet!, I got a happy .05... Then those jerks started to attack the water supply and tried to drain it...
Received my first Bitmill from the statues in Dragon's Tale.
I got my first 0.08 BTC from the faucet. It was supposed to be 0.02 BTC, but there was a bug that made it send four times. Once I got my mining rig set up, like a week or two later, I sent it all back.
Can you remember how you got your first Bitcoin?
I'd love to hear some nice stories - hopefully other than mining
or trading on MtGox, unless there's some unusual/interesting detail...
I, for one, reached my first BTC of wealth just last week, through a couple of kind donations!
I'd love to hear some nice stories - hopefully other than mining
or trading on MtGox, unless there's some unusual/interesting detail...
I, for one, reached my first BTC of wealth just last week, through a couple of kind donations!
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