How did you first hear about Bitcoin and when did you first buy Bitcoins?

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Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

It wasn’t long after that I think. I don’t remember if that pump had anything to do with them closing the site. I think they lost a bunch of bitcoins due to a hack or something like that. Either way, people lost their bitcoins.

Did they catch the hackers or was it an inside job at mt. gox?

I think the man that was running the site was taken to court but I don’t remember the result. I didn’t have any coins on that site. At the time, I was using btc-e for trading and then used cryptsy (until they shut down and took my money).

Yeah, I heard about cryptsy. What happened with them?

cryptsy is just the same as bitfinex happen and they want to keep it alive again but they are not continue.. .
I hope that it will not happen again in next year because every year it is happening..

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My father was the one who told me about it but for quite a long time I didn't care about it much, actually. After some time, however, when it grew in price enormously and when I became interested in starting to work and earn money, I started earning them. As for buying, I've never bought any btc yet.

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Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

It wasn’t long after that I think. I don’t remember if that pump had anything to do with them closing the site. I think they lost a bunch of bitcoins due to a hack or something like that. Either way, people lost their bitcoins.

Did they catch the hackers or was it an inside job at mt. gox?

I think the man that was running the site was taken to court but I don’t remember the result. I didn’t have any coins on that site. At the time, I was using btc-e for trading and then used cryptsy (until they shut down and took my money).

Yeah, I heard about cryptsy. What happened with them?

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Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

It wasn’t long after that I think. I don’t remember if that pump had anything to do with them closing the site. I think they lost a bunch of bitcoins due to a hack or something like that. Either way, people lost their bitcoins.

Did they catch the hackers or was it an inside job at mt. gox?

I think the man that was running the site was taken to court but I don’t remember the result. I didn’t have any coins on that site. At the time, I was using btc-e for trading and then used cryptsy (until they shut down and took my money).

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Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

It wasn’t long after that I think. I don’t remember if that pump had anything to do with them closing the site. I think they lost a bunch of bitcoins due to a hack or something like that. Either way, people lost their bitcoins.

Did they catch the hackers or was it an inside job at mt. gox?

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This question makes me cry, I had the first opportunity when it was as low as 0.01 cents, and I passed it away. By the time I rechecked it was 650$ and now 770$. I had seen it on money making forums. Yet wishing to buy one, and only regrets is that I did not when I should have. Now earning in satoshi's 😂

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Quote from: moviebuff777 on November 10, 2016, 02:08:17 PM

Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

It wasn’t long after that I think. I don’t remember if that pump had anything to do with them closing the site. I think they lost a bunch of bitcoins due to a hack or something like that. Either way, people lost their bitcoins.

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Was that when mt. gox closed the site and stopped trading?

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

Not long after I read about that, I did buy some. Unfortunately, I was buying as the price was rising from the pump at the end of that year.

Yeah thats when it went up real high and then crashed.

Yes, I think there was a bot on mtgox that was pumping the price around that time. I never heard if it was an intentional pump or if it was an error in the bot or the bot was set up wrong. Either way, there was a bubble.

Did you buy at the peak or what?

I started buying in stages, so it wasn’t all at one time. I did buy some when the price was a little over $1000 but I don’t remember the actual price. I think the price went as high as $1200 or close to it.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

Not long after I read about that, I did buy some. Unfortunately, I was buying as the price was rising from the pump at the end of that year.

Yeah thats when it went up real high and then crashed.

Yes, I think there was a bot on mtgox that was pumping the price around that time. I never heard if it was an intentional pump or if it was an error in the bot or the bot was set up wrong. Either way, there was a bubble.

Did you buy at the peak or what?

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i herd about bitcoin long ago i have seen mtgox exchange but had not traded any by the way i did not boght any bitcoin till now but recently bought my first bitcoin some months ago for the altcoin trading practic

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

Not long after I read about that, I did buy some. Unfortunately, I was buying as the price was rising from the pump at the end of that year.

Yeah thats when it went up real high and then crashed.

Yes, I think there was a bot on mtgox that was pumping the price around that time. I never heard if it was an intentional pump or if it was an error in the bot or the bot was set up wrong. Either way, there was a bubble.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

Not long after I read about that, I did buy some. Unfortunately, I was buying as the price was rising from the pump at the end of that year.

Yeah thats when it went up real high and then crashed.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

Not long after I read about that, I did buy some. Unfortunately, I was buying as the price was rising from the pump at the end of that year.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

So did you start buying after you read that story?

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

It says he cashed in one fifth of the 5000 bitcoin, so he kept the rest. But that was back in 2013, so over the last 3 years he may have sold more. It would be hard not to sell more of that to lock in a couple of million.

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I hear bitcoin when i was searching for an extra income online or part time job that i can save it for a long time and use it if i am married and now i saw bitcoin in a forum someone are teaching how to earn it and what is bitcoin and the first time i am a collector in many faucet i make my own rotator with 4 iframe in the same time that you can claim in the same time.. it is fast earning but i am not contended and i think it is impossible that faucet is the only place to earn it and i found investment site that drain all my bitcoins that i thought that it can bring me good result. but lose it all.. now i am learn a lot of things because found this forum. because of those ponzi site i will never came here in this forum,.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

How much did he use to buy the house?

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

He bought the bitcoins in 2009 and forgot about them and had some trouble remembering the password for the private key. It’s a good thing he eventually remembered it because he’s wealthy now. It took 4 years for the value to go from $27 to $886,000.

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I first got interested in bitcoin when I heard a story a few years ago about a man that bought 5000 bitcoins for only something like $25 and a few years later it was worth about a million dollars. Of course now 5000 bitcoins would be worth about $3.5 million.

I think that was the guy from Norway. Wasnt that back in 2013 before the price went up to over 1000?

I just found the article in “The Guardian”. Yes it was the man from Norway (Kristoffer Koch). He actually paid $27 for 5000 bitcoin, so if I’m doing my math correctly, that's about half a cent per bitcoin. He must have gotten them in the early days. It says he had forgotten about them.

Did the article say if he sold it?

At the time of the article, those bitcoins were worth $886,000 US dollars. It says that he cashed in some of the bitcoins to buy an apartment.

Its a good thing he didnt lose the wallet address.

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