Topic: How did you know about Crypto? (Read 410 times)

I encountered crypto by, of course encountering bitcoin. when i was researching about the deep web, i found out that the currency that was used there was bitcoin. then i started getting curious when its value started going up. then finally i joined crypto when i met a guy in our workplace whose into crypto. he then enlightened me about it and here i am.

In turkey every student knows about bitcoin, I think it has a big potential in blockchain. When the goverment would help entrepreneurs with blockchain tech and regulations it could be a silicon valley like berlin for blockchain but it has time.
I personally learned it from my teachers in school.

 DearIt was when I was doing the research for my domain name reselling business. I was looking for new trends to expand my inventory. I came across the article regarding Bitcoin. As I started doing more research about the Bitcoin and crypto world, the innovation of this technology and the scope of it influenced me to stay tuned to it. However, I still believe that there is a lot to explore thus I keep reading about it as much as I can to enhance my knowledge about this sphere.

My friend just introduce me to bitcoin and i dont have any idea what bitcoin is when he taught me. I made a little research about bitcoin and thats the time im so addicted to crypto speacially on bounty rewards.

For me it was the same I heard about it true a friend. and after began to look things up and got interested.. it's basically a new life a new world for me.

I've been into crypto for years. I've always been sort of a geek about technology and when I heard about it, I looked into it. My brother was a phreaker back in the 80s and was into hacking and anything dealing with technology. He learned about it early and started mining right at the beginning, but at the time I wasn't paying much attention to what he was doing. I wish I had, he made out great.  

Through my friends, they went rich because of this. They tell stories how they bought their gaming consoles using cryptocurrency. Also, i heard this last year (2017) in the news that this cryptocurrrency is trending. That's why im here, interested to earn bitcoin.

My husband has been talking about it before but i was not paying attention not until his cousin introduced it to me and the way i saw her earn money has got me interested 

I know bitcoin from my sister, because she talk we can get extra money from join crypto.
It is trading, mining, landing and etc.
I work the company heavy equipment and now i love my job and i love crypto world.

Quick story short
I knew from the early 2012 but was not that interested and din't had money to invest.

I started trading in the beginning of 2017. I was in college, didn't had money to invest so I was mining with my laptop

I was mining Bytecoin because it was damn so easy to mine. I was mining for like 1 month with my laptop on CPU and I made couple of trades when it was low price.
I mined like a dollar and a half, and after couple of months I have invested that dollar in MinexCoin ICO. Till today i have no idea how i managed to transfer a dollar and a half to their ICO, but the price of BTC was 1500$ or less if I can remember.

After 4 months of waiting and keeping my dollar safe I got 1.40 MinexCoin from the investment int heir ICO and also bounty.
I was holding that coin couple of days, even when he reached 70$ pump didnt sell it.
I parked them for 2 wees got 2 minex and I started traiding with like 25$

Until now I won't reveal how much I have but I am doing good
From 0$ to ....
My point is never give up
just be patient and everything will come in good way
cheers

My girlfriends dad has a lot of bitcoins and I didnt believe in it at first until he started buying a bunch of stuff so I started asking him questions around it and thought damn why cant I start doing it

I knew about Bitcoin from my boss, and I asked my friends to know more about it.

I know a little bit in college.

I know bitcoin as cryptocurrencies from news on television or in newspapers that containing news about trade and monetary. I am interested because many people are enthusiastic about the existence of this crypto currency.

I have known bitcoin because I often read economic news related to monetary and trade. Previously I was not interested because I think bitcoin is a currency that is not made from a material. now i start trying what is crypto currency.

the first time i heard about crypto (bitcoin) was several years ago,  becaus some of my friends "ordered" somethink in the darknet. I thought that bitcoin is only for criminals until last sommer. a frient showed me how much different cryptocurrenys are available and how much profit you can generate. so I started to get into that stuff by investing my first 100€.

Just used to buy some stuff from Silk Road too)

Loving this thread Already posted but here's another story from my experience....

Worked in a games company, in customer service. Not one of the small ones. a BIG one. This is late 2012, and into 2013.

Our work machines were srs bznz....dual monitor, dual 7950 bunnies.

I had applied for a job in sys-admin (because fuck talking to customers), and made it my business to buy the IT room beers to support my application.

So ... let's call him "Bob"... one night in a frenzy of drunken honesty, shared that he had set up a network-wide (800 machines while they were idle) mining op to grab LTC and send them to his wallet. At the time (Xmas 2012), he had 48000 LTC in his wallet. One of his key requirements to hire me (who was buying his beer!) was that I keep it under wraps, with a share (I think he was offering 4% of all output to my LTC address).

Frankly, I just wanted the job, and couldn't have given less of a fuck about LTC, so I nodded and smiled. They were worth about 7c at the time, I think, so it wasn't mickey mouse money, but still....4% of that was still pfft.

I said "Sure ", and then life cirumstances changed. Before the hiring was closed, I had a RL thing happen which meant I needed to move home, and that was the last I saw of Bob. I was a cert to get the job, but hey what the hell.

Bob later got fired for a number of shady practices, not least of which was selling "faulty" GPUs to employees in the smoking area outside the building and pocketing the cash. But you know, fired and all, I reckon he's not giving much a fuck right now...

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I heard about it in the summer of 2012 from some geek coworkers, I didnt understand what da hell and fuss was all about, out of 10 people that were there, 4-5 all become super rich FTW