I heard via slashdot in July 2010. I hear talk about the first and second slashdotting, but I'm not sure when those two events occurred. All I know is that about a week or two after I started CPU mining, my laptop couldn't keep up with the big boys. But before that, I did ok. I freakishly generated (to repeat myself for the hundredth time) 4 blocks on my laptop in one night.
When the mining got tough, I stopped and forgot about it all for nearlt year. Nearly lost my roughly 500 Bitcoins to a hard drive failure, but thanks to time machine, I inadvertently got it back....and ignored it some more. Then I heard about it again (I think on slashdot...could that be the second slashdotting?). I launched my long ignored client and found all my coins. Worked out well. Thank you Apple!
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I think I read some article about it on aljazeera.com. For sure I learned about it in June 2011, JUST after the crash and before the Gox hack.
At least I know about it now (and am thankful for it!)
At least I know about it now (and am thankful for it!)
Drunk one night in late 2010 or early 2011 I stumbled across it on the net and had a cursory glance, deciding in my wisdom at the time it had to be a scam, I woe that night now. Then I saw it at $10 going up and greed got a hold of me but with some reading on btc I decided that my greed was justified in buying into such a top idea.
Slashdot post http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/bitcoin-releases-version-03 in 2010 when cpu mining was the way it was done haha. I remember you could only buy socks back then and maybe some web hosting. Had my good old Intel E6800 and a pair of nvidia 7950 GT's in SLI on my old Striker II board just cranking away. What change in 2 years.
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I was researching ATI's 7970 just before it was released at the beginning of the year. I think it was in the forums of HardOCP that someone said "I wonder how many bitcoins it could mine" or some such thing.
"bitcoins?" I said to myself. "what's a bitcoin?"
"bitcoins?" I said to myself. "what's a bitcoin?"
ARS Technica article: http://arstechnica.com/
I saw it being discussed on a certain imageboard during the first bubble in 2011.
Didn't actually look into it until after the bubble later in the year.
Didn't actually look into it until after the bubble later in the year.
Security Now podcast in early 2011. Wish I had been keeping up weekly. I listened to it in April 2011, but I think it was dated January 2011! Those extra 3 months would've made me a lot of money!
I listened to it being talked about on Free Talk Live as much as 2 years ago. Wish I'd been convinced of how good it was when I first heard of it....
Some dude refer me to the site on some forum about open source gaming. I dismiss it as an agorist currency that can't possibly work.
That was after the first slashdot coverage. Then I eventually become convinced that it was useful. I was there before the bitcoin price reach 1 dollars.
That was after the first slashdot coverage. Then I eventually become convinced that it was useful. I was there before the bitcoin price reach 1 dollars.
A computer magazine in late spring 2011 advertising to make money by running your computer. I thought this is one way to justify all the money spent on computers for the past 5 years ;-)
I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
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