Topic: How did you first hear about bitcoin? - page 162. (Read 104361 times)

I think I heard about it in the news, and then watching some documentary about MtGox blowing up.

Watching it in the news is hilarious, kind of like the "what is Internet?" news clip.

I heard people talking about it one day at asocial event by the BBQ. I googled it and learnt all about it when I got home. Ever since I've shown lots of interest.

have you got a link please to that video? thx

Internet is the best source of gathering information, and also any sort of information. It is good to do your homework. Doing research by your own will enrich your knowledge more than any other way. If you have not yet started to earn digital gold, how about joining related face book groups and participating in some signature campaigns.

Amazing it must had been a good experience for you  as I am using bitcoin so few months ago when I was jobless and I was not having anything to do than one of my friend told me about bitcoin and she told me the benefits of the bitcoin at that time I find bitcoin a mystery and I thought it must be very difficult and I did not bother but then she told me easy ways to use bitcoin then I start using bitcoin and now I am using it so it is very profitable and a good source of income I had a great beginning experience with bitcoin.   

The first time I heard bitcoin was from twitter friends (a year ago), that time he made a tweet about the bitcoin price increase and he gets a profit of up to 200% since then I'm interested to know more about bitcoin.

I first discovered the existence of bitcoin back in 2011 after reading an article on a site called LewRockwell.com that was discussing the problems with the Federal Reserve system, quantitative easing, the national debt, etc. Buried in the middle of a paragraph it was mentioned in passing that there was a new currency called bitcoin that could get around the problems with a centralized fiat currency and could perhaps even compete with the dollar someday. I noticed that the word "bitcoin" in the sentence was actually a hyperlink, so out of curiosity I clicked on it...as it turns out I have never been so glad that I clicked through on a little text link like that in my life!

The link went to a site where the bitcoin client software could be downloaded and installed, and from there I eventually discovered Mt. Gox, the main exchanger for bitcoin at the time, along with some forums and message boards where people were buying and selling this newfangled digital currency. The value of BTC was around 6 cents (0.06 USD) at the time, and I managed to buy 750 BTC for $40 of PayPal funds (this was before PayPal had learned about bitcoin and prohibited private exchanges of this sort). I had bought the BTC mostly to support the libertarian cause and actually hoped that I could spend the digital "coins" on some novelties that I could not find locally, or perhaps be able to buy some silver at a relative discount since bitcoin was not well known at the time and few merchants were actually accepting it. But I couldn't really find anything to buy with the BTC that I was interested in, so I let it go and pretty much forgot about it for while, although I did bookmark the Mt. Gox site.

Several months later I returned to the Mt. Gox site after bitcoin was mentioned in some other article, and much to my amazement the value of BTC had risen to about $5. At this point I decided to take some profits and sell some of the BTC after Mt. Gox began allowing withdrawals through Dwolla, a relatively new payment processor that allowed me to transfer the funds to my bank without charging any fees. I ended up banking about $1300 of profits before Mt. Gox crashed, and I also had about $900 left in my Mt. Gox account, which is currently still tied up in the bankruptcy proceedings.

Unfortunately I became a little overexuberant with trying to increase my remaining BTC holdings by registering on GLBSE, a bitcoin stock exchange that allowed investors to buy stock in various private ventures with BTC and earn profits through regular dividends, or from an increase in the prices of the stocks. As it turns out most of the "companies" on this exchange were little more than Ponzi schemes that were able to take advantage of the increasing value of BTC to pay out dividends to early investors. I ended up investing most of my BTC in some stocks labeled as NYAN.A, NYAN.B, and NYAN.C, and was actually doing rather well with collecting dividends on these when the owner of GLBSE abruptly shut down the site that hosted the stock exchange, apparently worried that the authorities in the UK were closing in on him and would declare that his operation was somehow illegal.

The issuer of the "NYAN" stocks sent some partial repayments to investors after the GLBSE site went down, but it was just a small fraction of the original amount invested. He promised to send out additional repayments after his personal finances improved, but I have not received any messages from him since 2013, so I can only presume at this point that the remaining amount is lost. After all of the Mt. Gox and GLBSE chaos I ended up with about 25 BTC, which seemed like too small of an amount at the time to make much of a difference to me, so I just sat on it and did not even bother with starting up the client software or downloading the blockchain for about the next three years.

Of course we all know what happened next...bitcoin began to get more mainstream attention and the price continued to increase. When it reached about $1000 per BTC I started trying to catch up on the blockchain again and discovered that it was a rather slow process because of the sheer size of the files. At this point I realized that I had a potentially life-changing amount of money building up in BTC, so I started watching the news on it more closely and looked for ways to actually earn money in BTC since its value was still increasing. For the past few months I have been earning some small amounts through faucets, paid-to-click sites, offer walls, and the like but have only been able to add a little over 0.01 BTC to my original amount. Then I rediscovered this forum and have read in other posts that it is possible to earn more significant amounts of BTC through signature campaigns (basically renting out signature space to advertisers as I understand it) after gaining a high enough rank on the forum. Apparently it is also possible to earn BTC by selling various goods or services, and since I am a freelance writer who has actually made money from writing and proofreading articles, perhaps I can make some BTC with this particular service if I can manage to find some offers.

i am thinking the same like you but fortunately, after my friend telling me about bitcoin, i am directly searching on internet to know what is bitcoin and i found out that bitcoin is one of many source to make money. so i decide to search more info and how to earn bitcoin and finally i can start earning bitcoin in my first time.

Yes i'm a bitcoin fan ,, day day spent to collect bitcoin like trading, faucet, follow ICO and others.. I know bitcoin from news and from friends

I always spend time reading and trading bitcoins. Believe it or not now bitcoin is my work at home.
First know my bitcoin read an article and try to learn about bitcoin until now.

Nowadays even if you do not have a friend to tell you about bitcoin you can already find it in the internet.
It's very popular now and you can already tell that by the way the price move, you should be interested with bitcoin and make your
research to educate yourself very well.

fast of all i want to say that, one day my friend said about bitcoin to me. then i heard at first from my friend.

just sharing experience, totally i don't about btc and other alts. on 2015, my friend first tell me about HYIP. i used perfect money to invest in HYIP. in a month later, more more hyip rise up with btc as payment. so i know btc from that and reading more news about btc on internet.

Today so many people are interested in bitcoin, and maybe at this time they can easily find it. Different from the first. Well, at first I know bitcoin, it's very hard to find the ad, even so many cheats about it. Well, even then hyip sites are still very popular, but I guess people nowadays are so easy to find bitcoin.

All the lines in the question Mark are true for me , In the starting i needed lot of money but due to my economical condition i was not able to make investment and also not able to give money to anyone for tge teaching about bitcoin .
But still i didn't loose my patience about the learning bitcoin . At every term new new terms were involved but still i made learnings patience  for 1.5 years , At that time when i got free internet by service provider then instantly i started my study through google .So all this take me a long time journey .
And here i can say no one directly explained me about the bitcoin  and i am the self study boy in this field .
In the starting i worked much hard work but noe i am doing simple smart work to make money whivhnis sufficient for my life to live in this world without lack of money .

at first i learn bitcoin from internet but i don't understand.
and that day I heard from my best friend.
and he teach me about bitcoin.

The first time I heard about bitcoin was at a seminar in school. At first all I understand was it was a digital money but nobody believes in it because they think it was a scam that was a few years ago and I guess many of us regret not believing in it on the first place but we already accepted the outcome.

I learn all about bitcoin to my friend that still using this bitcoin . he explain to me that the bitcoin make change someone or become rich like others and i was amazed because bitcoin can make money easly? 

i heared bitcoin from my friend then i do research it on google and i found out that bitcoin is very popular, i was amazed that thru bitcoin we can make money without investment, just read ang learn and sharing of ideas.
just joined last month still learning and studying the moves and currency of btc. love to say that bitcoin now is my new hangout. wish me luck to learn more things about it.

Yeah we have a same experiences. I heard it also to my friend and I found out that he is earning money because of the bitcoin. I got interested because that time I am ver desperate to earn money.