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Topic: How did you get into bitcoins? (Read 1194 times)

newbie
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November 15, 2013, 06:20:16 PM
#39
was on a danish forum in 2011, asking about bitcoin i looked into it, and me and my friend was super stoaked, we wanted to make a miner for about 7000kr, but we had np place to host it. parrents did not want it turned on 24/7. and said 7000Kr was to risky.
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 05:02:30 PM
#38
I was one of the original subscribers to Zerohedge back on Seeking Alpha in like 2006.  I have read most Zerohedge posts since then.  It was first mentioned on Zerohedge maybe two years ago.  Didn't get around to buying some until after the implosion this spring.
hero member
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November 15, 2013, 04:54:43 PM
#37
I heard about btc from friends who are CS students , I am not

Took me a little while to get how big and disruptive btc is
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 04:50:44 PM
#36
It's always fun investing in new technologies.  I also lean pretty heavy on the libertarian side, so Bitcoin was right down my alley.  I also had to pick them up in time for this college football season.  Wink
sr. member
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November 15, 2013, 03:26:44 PM
#35
I just wonder how it plunges high. Inspired me to get into
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 03:15:38 PM
#34
Thanks for all the replies guys!
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 02:11:21 PM
#33
I vaguely remember reading about it online a few months ago. The rest is history  Tongue
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 07:33:17 AM
#32
About a year ago a friend told me. First bought this spring.
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 07:13:26 AM
#31
I found it from Twitter. Think I'm still not late and within 1 week I start trading and invested in hosted mining. Now I have few BTC and daily income.   
full member
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November 15, 2013, 05:28:32 AM
#30
I was in a forum looking for a good graphic card for gaming and people were talking about how good the GPU is for mining...
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 04:46:47 AM
#29
Long story short, since i must have timed out after telling a long epic story of my start with Bitcoins, back in March 2011 my friend introduced bitcoins to me because of my constant ranting since 2008 of ending the Fed and the central banking system yada yada, pro Ron Paul and libertarian rants blah blah.  Tongue

So it took me all of 5 minutes to understand it and it seemed too good to be true. Went back and forth about mining and buying some @$2-20/btc  Undecided til June 2011 Mt Gox got hacked and scared us off.   Huh

Fast forward to Oct 2nd 2013... Silk Road bust... bitcoin as payment... $1.3 billion usd of transactions... members anonymous... founders bitcoins unable to touch by FBI... btc worth $121/btc...   Shocked

Called everybody and their mothers mother, which i guess would be their grandmother... anyway, and told them to buy. I was called a crazy, nothing new to a pro Ron Paul/Libertarian end the FED crazy, so ended up winning a Casascius silver 10btc coin fully loaded on Oct 8th!  Grin Also have a couple other Casascius bitcoins, a 2011 ver 2 1btc and a 2013 0.5 btc.

Bitcoin is like digital gold, digital cash, and a revolution all in one.  Cheesy
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November 15, 2013, 04:35:38 AM
#28
I heard about it through a friend, decided to download the Bitcoin-Qt wallet, but downloading the BlockChain took me to long, so I removed everything. Worse decision ever.

I came back to BitCoin because of a post on FunnyJunk. It was about BitVegas giving away Bitcoins, so I downloaded Electrum, collected me some coins and I have been active ever since.
hero member
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November 15, 2013, 04:31:23 AM
#27
After hearing about the high bitcoin prices I did look futher in bitcoin. Sindsthen I orderd mine one miner. Now it is pure hobby.
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 04:11:22 AM
#26
I was just searching what to do with spare hardware laying around lol.
sr. member
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November 15, 2013, 04:04:43 AM
#25
I get into Bitcoins when the news was spreading high ROI on mining....
newbie
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November 15, 2013, 02:36:15 AM
#24
Interest on Cypherpunk. Then comes Bitcoin.  Smiley
sr. member
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November 14, 2013, 04:21:28 PM
#23
Looking into online gambling and sports betting.... thus bitcoin.


You have a lot of gambling sites with fiat Tongue
newbie
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November 14, 2013, 04:19:30 PM
#22
Looking into online gambling and sports betting.... thus bitcoin.
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November 14, 2013, 04:17:56 PM
#21
You have to wait long time for that
sr. member
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November 14, 2013, 04:10:17 PM
#20
A friend told me about it at work first. And I read some papers on the newspapers.
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