How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

Dalkore

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Quote from: Gavin Andresen on June 27, 2012, 11:31:11 AM

I first heard about Bitcoin from this article:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/open-source-innovation-the-cutting-edge-582?page=0,2

My gosh, I was an early adopter. Why the **** didn't I back up those coins. doah!

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waspoza

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Quote from: rjk on June 29, 2012, 10:56:03 AM

Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 09:35:50 AM

Quote from: herzmeister on June 29, 2012, 08:35:50 AM

Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 08:12:25 AM

I see that there was possibility to include message with transaction. What happened to that?

Would probably be abused and spam and bloat up the blockchain right?

This can be easily countered with length restriction.

The message option was only available when sending via IP address, and was never stored in the blockchain. When the send to IP functionality was removed, the messaging system went with it.

I see, thanks.

rjk

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Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 09:35:50 AM

Quote from: herzmeister on June 29, 2012, 08:35:50 AM

Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 08:12:25 AM

I see that there was possibility to include message with transaction. What happened to that?

Would probably be abused and spam and bloat up the blockchain right?

This can be easily countered with length restriction.

The message option was only available when sending via IP address, and was never stored in the blockchain. When the send to IP functionality was removed, the messaging system went with it.

foggyb

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Youtube. Steve Gibson as a guest on Security Now #288.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCzsCmhkjMM

Starting at 44:00, bitcoin was on topic.

I know, slashdot covered it months earlier, but I had stopped reading slashdot. Embarrassed

waspoza

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Quote from: herzmeister on June 29, 2012, 08:35:50 AM

Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 08:12:25 AM

I see that there was possibility to include message with transaction. What happened to that?

Would probably be abused and spam and bloat up the blockchain right?

This can be easily countered with length restriction.

SimonL

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July 2010, when Slashdot covered it. I effused to my friends for months afterwards about the concept. Many listened patiently, tried not to roll their eyes, etc. Astonishing how it is already two years down the track, things are SO different now. When I first knew about it, getting Bitcoins was actually insanely difficult unless you knew/trusted someone well or mined them yourself. Being in Australia made it doubly difficult. Buying was extremely risky and time consuming. The only real option (and ironically the safest), was to send cash in the mail to an anonymous forum user and wait weeks to confirm receipt of the cash and hope the exchange rate at the time of agreement was honored. Fuck. That. Now, I place an order and can get them in my wallet in 2 hours

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herzmeister

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Quote from: waspoza on June 29, 2012, 08:12:25 AM

I see that there was possibility to include message with transaction. What happened to that?

Would probably be abused and spam and bloat up the blockchain right?

waspoza

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Quote from: Gavin Andresen on June 27, 2012, 11:31:11 AM

I first heard about Bitcoin from this article:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/open-source-innovation-the-cutting-edge-582?page=0,2

I see that there was possibility to include message with transaction. What happened to that?

AmazonStuff

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I first heard of btc in the news when someone talked about Asange and that all his income is blocked, except bitcoin.

herzmeister

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I'm sure I read the name earlier already and just thought it was another centralized e-cash business.

I'm also sure I saw the proposal on http://area51.stackexchange.com/ in early 2011 but it didn't click for me either. I guess I thought it's just a virtual currency system for games. I read mining and I thought it must have to do with World of Warcraft or something. Roll Eyes

Then a certain German alpha blogger, who pretends to be an old hipster but is so conform and authoritarian on many things, posted around May/June 2011 something like it must be a ponzi. This got me curious because I believe this guy is often quite wrong. And I was right with my impression. Cheesy

World

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I first heard about BTC here:
http://www.fandor.cz/bitcoin-silk-road/
September 2011

pekv2

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Mm, hardocp.com news section last year, they have a huge howto that was very easily, well, how-to.

dooglus

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I first heard about bitcoin here:

http://identi.ca/notice/61926764

on Monday, 10-Jan-2011.

paraipan

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An article about bitcoin showed up in 2010 on meneame, spanish version of reddit, and i looked into it, downloaded the client but didn't bother with it more. In June 2011 i've stumbled on it again, and this time I got the "gold fever" like all the other miners out there.

This project is really giving me an opportunity to make good use my resources. It cost me almost a year but now i understand that time is money.

szuetam

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Heh, I have dreamed about such a currency in 2008/2009 and talking to my friends about to my friends making them bored to death, but I heard about bitcoin in 2011 in some article about some big amount of bitcoin stolen, and then I thought This is it! I'm thinking about it all the time and asking myself should I buy more bitcoins now and if not how much I will regret it in the future!

interlagos

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I first heard about Bitcoin in one of the LinuxActionShow episodes on youtube in March/April 2011, but didn't pay any attention.
The name sounded like yet another game of some sort.

It clicked much later in July 2011 when I read an article with profound title "BitCoin: ingenious scam or money of the future?"
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.3dnews.ru%2Foffsyanka%2F613761%2F

Gavin Andresen

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