Topic: How did you get into Bitcoin? - page 7. (Read 6440 times)

The combination of someone telling you AND the price going up is the way people stepped into bitcoin.

For some reason they don't want to miss out on this big thing.

Friend told me.
At first I was very skeptic and didn't want to join.
Bitcoin price increased in that period and when I heard how much my friend earned on price increase I realized my mistake and finally joined.
Still feel sorry that I waited so long time.

100 BTC, nice. Mini BTC whale. Well, you friend ll be a rich man, probably a millionaire.

Reading the responses in this thread it seems that the majority of people in here were on their quest for online income? That's quite a surprise actually as I thought it was the need for some transfer of value that people would lead them eventually to the search for BTCBTCBTC.

As for me, I was browsing TPB as well as sci-hub, and noticed they'd only accept donations via BTCBTCBTC. It was then I realized the power of this technology.

Thats cool dude. I heard 1st about bitcoin from one of my collegue. We had chat about world currencies at that In between He start to about digital form currencies. That was the first I hear about bitcoin.

A friend of mine started with faucets too... Also Freebitco.in. He has some artistic skills and started offering his services for BTC... He now owns almost 100 bitcoins and paid

all of his debt. We did not know that both of us, was into bitcoin... and only recently found out, when we got together in a pub. We regularly attend meetups together now, and

we are much closer than before, due to bond we share with Crypto currencies. 

first heard i have about bitcoin is in year 2014 and i only can earn it around 0.005 per week and that's all is from faucet site and my first claim faucet is freebitco.in

It seems lots of people got in cause of direct recommendation from their friends. I guess, even in this age of technology, the direct, mouth to mouth, recommendation still gives the best results.

I just don't remember exactly how I got interested in bitcoin I think I read some article about it online and eventually ended up here on this forum during my search on Google about bitcoin.I think everyone who love or uses bitcoin,comes here at least once in his life

I heard on the news about it.

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I first heard about Bitcoin in 2012, I even invited a "Guess Post" from a software engineer (someone I did not even know) to explain it at my blog.  But, I took no action re buying BTC.

It wasn't until 2013 when Zero Hedge put up a series of articles, that drew in BTC fans, that I actually acted.  And it was the help of those at ZH who got me started.

NONE of my "normal" friends nor family were or even now are into BTC.

Just read on a blog that has a convincing how to earn money with bitcoins thats why i search it in google and saw this forum...

my friend told me about it that i should invest some dollars into it

A friend was into bitcoin years ago, I wish I wasn't so dismissive, paranoid, ignorant whatever. Unfortunately I'm late to the party.

I got into it by reading on a forum and winning a reward there. It was my first BTC, and i exchanged some since.

I've discovered them in 2011 I guess, when I received some amount and spent them on some zynga rewards. Didn't know it was BTC till friend told me about them in 2014 and my memory was back

This is the same case with me as well. I was searching for some information online and came across a faucet which has a bitcoin logo. Whiel searching about what is bitcoin, I got this forum and from then I am just addicted to this currency. I now hold cash in my bitcoin wallets only.

In spring 2011 I read about a way to "make money with your computer" in a PC magazine I used to buy now and then. I believed it was a joke at first, but having heard about Seti-at-Home many years ago when I read about Bitcoin using peer2peer technology (we all know what that was used for in the 2000s) it immediately caught my attention. On top of the word "peer2peer" the virtual currency/gold reminded me of World of Warcraft gold, or better Diablo2 virtual items. I knew that people sold unique virtual goods on ebay and I even bought such an item once for Diablo2. I knew virtual goods are a real thing and could be used to make actual (fiat) money. The virtual world is R E A L. I had the feeling many people would take a long time to realize this, but eventually it would become clear, at least to the new generations growing up digital. They don't have to touch something to take it seriously and buy apps on mobile phones all of the time.

I bought a passively cooled 5770 and started to mine, shortly followed by a 5870 and in no time I had my first mining rig going in June 2011 using plastic baskets as a nicely air cooled "container". Sadly, I lost 50 Bitcoins to the Bitcoinica debacle, generally sold most of my coins way too early (2012) and lost more on exchanges like vircurex and during the altcoin crash. On the other side, I survived the Tradehill closure, Bitmarket.eu "hack" and avoided other scams all around by simply not using their services. Never keep any amount of BTC at a third party exchange, always keep your private keys, run a full node or use an offline storage or a hardware wallet like Trezor.

I was searching for online income that time , i saw a thread of how to earn doing small online works , from that link i came to know about Bitcoin. Then i searched more about Bitcoin, first i came to faucet and was earning little bit, then some more searching i done and came to know about this forum and then started to surf bitcointalk and got so many information about bitcoin and alt coins and then also came to know about signature campaign and started to earn high, after some months i will come and tell how much i earned.

Same here!
late of 2014, i saw the BTC logo "Bitcoin accepted" on a PTC website, which actually i used than (which is gone now). And then just started to search about bitcoin on google and now i'm here. Actually there's a small story behind i came to bitcointalk.org too