Topic: How did you know about Crypto? (Read 409 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   

i learned cryptocurrency way back 2015. A friend of mine introduced bitcoin to me and how can i earn big money out of it. The value of bitcoinwas too low but we just spent it in games and gambling. how i wish i could turn back time and waited till 2017 where the value reached a million dollar! 

I got to know about Bitcoin a couple of years back after malware attack in one of the MNCs when it was demanding for Bitcoins to clean the systems. 

I, like many others, laughed at first when I was offered to invest in bitcoin. We are children of 90th especially in Ukraine, we perceive this as another MMM. For the first time I heard about bitcoin in March 2017 and only after half a year began to delve into.

I heard about bitcoin first in 2013 from a friends friend who had a few bitcoins. he told that somebody send it to him in 2011 or 2012? for free because he wants to try this thing out. he got it from a forum maybe from a member bitkointalk. At this time I don't really understand what he was talking about. And I thought Internetmoney it couldn't work because you can copy everything an a computer so also Bitcoins. I wish I had an interest at that time to understand Blockchain.

The second time I heard from it was mid 2017 from other friends who have already been invested in it.

I saw a friend who often open this web forum, then I was curious and asked, my friend immediately explained in a real way. And I am interested and feel that I also have enough criteria to join this forum. So I studied more crypto in the forum

I first learnt about Bitcoin after a friend told me it existed and I even read a book about how it worked. I wish I had put more energy into it at the moment I would be rich now

Then some time ago another friend of mine got into cryptos and almost forced me to join

I guess that was one of the your biggest regrets, ignoring bitcoin but I just like what you have said, If I were that same situation like you I will ignored it also without even realizing that bitcoin will be valuable just like today.
One of my friends just tell me about bitcoin, and then I started with my own research about it.

I know and know the encrypted currency through my friends. Now I'm glad I got to know it. I fell in love with it. Because it can bring me extra wealth. At the same time, I also help more people to know the encryptioncurrency, because it also makes me happy.There is also a sense of achievement.

I heard about btc on news last summer and when i checked the price i was shocked. Because in 2012 i have heard about it and though it was not worth to waste my time

From friends first and inevitably through all the news on crypto we are seeing these days

Oh wow that is way too cool .  well my churchmates introduce Bitcoin with me, they were talking and I feel Isolated thats hy I ask them about it and know this is our mostly topic when we gather around.

I found out kinda late... Stumbled upon Cointelegraph youtube channel, watched videos, it was really funny but I didn't really understand what exactly they were talking about lol so it motivated me to research more

From work. Our lead developer was and is a nut about it. Actually a lot of the other IT guys teased him about it then one day we all started jumping in on the band wagon. Thankfully he  shares his knowledge with us.

I've actually known crypto from my co-worker, he invites me to register in bitcoin and I have also read it online.

from my brother, who knew from his friend))

I've seen a lot of articles online, and then my friend convinced me to try it.

friend guide me step by step to bitcoin years ago then i started to learn by using bitcointalk . org  .reading is important to update gained knowledge .

I know about crypto to my friends. Then i see some youtube video, read some blog and news. 

I saw my friends earning some good bucks thru this cypto or virtual moneys and so i ask them but its sad to say that you could really see in there eyes and notice from what they're talking that they dont wanna share how they earn it so i tried to do some research about it and ended up being here. Oh btw! I just figured out that they're doing a signature campaign

I heard about bitcoin a long time ago because one of my classmate is using this but I didn't bother. I didn't know it will be a big deal like now.

I heard about it from co-workers. They started six months ago, I started about 1.5 months ago.

Hi! My husband has learned cryptoworld so me too. We start working at home, it's like new life, we are the happiest coupl in our city)))

I did not start out on Bitcoin. You know, there ARE a lot of other coins out there...  But basically some friends of mine were getting into Ethereum, and then another friend got me reading about Deep Onion, and I became hooked (not really  ) since.

I have heard about Bitcoin from a colleauge and then I tried surfing the internet to know more about Bitcoin.

A know about crypto because of my friend and specially bitcoin,he told me that you can be able to earn big and get rich through bitcoin so right now I join in this site to start earning in joining signature campaign as well soon when I rank up.

My Brother forced me into it! When he realized I wouldn't be interested in some weird new Money, He hinted at the social impact, so here I am.

My friend told me what cypto is like bitcoin and how he earn money through it so I also decided it have an account here to start earning as well in joining signature campaign soon when I rank up.

From the Internet, where else? It was necessary to be engaged for a long time already

Hi all

I first discovered Bitcoin about 5 years ago. I presumed at first it was a fly by night scam of some sort. I regret like others here that i failed to invest early. I did research later though and was a miner when it was still viable. Made a little bit of coin on the side so cant complain.

Йex, знaлa бы я двa гoдa нaзaд, кaк пoднимeтcя цeнa нa битoк( Былa б миллиoнepoм yжe). Я кaк-тo coвepшeннo cлyчaйнo пoпaлa нa dice, cнaчaлa нe пoнялa, чтo тaм зa epyндa в BTC. Пoтoм дoбpыe люди нayчили, paccкaзaли, пoкaзaли и вce, я в нeгo влюбилacь. Haчaлa нaкaпливaть, oтдaвaть пo дoбpoтe дyшeвнoй дpyгим. He пpинялa тaк cкaзaть, кpиптoвaлютy вcepьeз. Зaтo тeпepь кycaя лoкти и гpaнит нayки, движycь в пpaвильнoм нaпpaвлeнии. Bидимo, cнaчaлa нaдo пoтepять, чтoбы нaйти.

I heard about Bitcoin years ago while watching Gold/Silver videos on YT. I disregarded BTC as some type of fly by night internet money.

Then my brother mentioned that Japan was recognizing BTC as a currency last summer while I was on vacation mountain biking in Utah.  When I got back home, I opened an account and started purchasing BTC, ETH and LTC.  Went onto the alt cryptos since then.

This sector has a ways to run IMO.

First time I heard about bitcoins in 2012 and at that time I didn't believe about bitcoins and cryptos, one of my friend forced me to buy few bitcoins for $50, but I rejected it and I am still worried about that decision, after in 2016 I wos wondered about the BTC price and again I started to study about cryptocurrency, Not still I am studying while doing bounties. But i am worrying about my decisions which was taken in 2012.

As for me, the first time i heard it was on my friend that there were so many people using bitcoins to trade for computer parts. After that im aware of crypto, but not on earning it until my older brother told me that there was a legit process that can be a great help to earn it without spending money. And now i'm one of those trying to convince other people to use and be more aware about cryptocurrencies.

Awesome thread!

So for me, I first got introduced by my little girl's godfather, in Christmas 2012. Bitcoin had hit something like $12, and he'd mined a shitload when it was CPU and GPU mineable. He offered to sell me 40 BTC for $100 - "mates rates".

I declined.

Yes, I know. What a decision. But he's not the most communicative guy in the world, and what he positioned to me was basically "internet zenny-coins, someone might someday sell you a coffee for a thousand of them". This is not how he phrased it, but that's how I heard it.

He spoke to me again about it in Feb 2013, when I got briefly obsessed, because it had risen to like $110-ish per BTC, again offering to share his mined coins at a really reduced price. He's a nice guy I didn't have much Fiat at the time, so I declined. He sent me 0.3 BTC as an encouragement payment - I had it stored on Cryptsy (ultimately - I transferred it around a bit) :/

Then in May 2013, my little girl, who was 3 at the time, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), which as you can imagine somewhat rearranged my priorities. I didn't even look at Crypto again until this year, when she was a year clear (happy ending!!!! ).

Now, here I am, wondering if I can get back in. I currently like Ripple, and the idea of punting on penny shares (new altcoins). Let's see how it goes!

And that is me

My first introduction with cryptocurrency is actually a bad story to tell as a "Newbie" on this forum. In my defense, it was a long time ago and i was still irresponsible! 
So i wanted to buy some drugs from the internet (yeap here we go). Buying on this specific website was only possible trough Bitcoin (like the well known SilkRoad). So i learned how to buy Bitcoins and spend them, using Blockchain wallet. After a very long time i logged into Blockchain again for some reason and when looking at my transaction history i could see the value of the Bitcoins then and now. Seeing this massive increase caught my attention and from that point i started reading about bitcoin, learning about hardforks that were going on at that moment, understanding altcoins and ICO's.
And now i am here, hooked to my computer, crypto everywhere 

And by the way, not buying drugs with my coins!! I SWEAR!!

I have known about Crypto from my colleaugue. And you, bros?