I had heard here and there about it from a few friends into torrents. Read about it at around 11 a coin. Got into it around 19 a coin. Woke up today and was a very happy man.
I also collect other bitcoin stuff too. Like memoriabilia and I like the magazines as well. I have a few shirts too, but not really for wearing out hahah, although one is cool.
Topic: How did you learn about Bitcoin? (Read 2087 times)
Was at a conference and heard it mentioned as a way to pay for the service that was being discussed. Then wasted 3 months before researching it. Kicking myself now for waiting so long.
I've heard of quite a few cases of digital artists whose Paypal accounts are terminated because they do some racy "adult" art commissions.
One of those artists posted on a forum sharing the bad news and bitcoins were suggested half jokingly as a payment alternative, saying nobody understands them.
That made me curious, gathered information and enden up buying.
One of those artists posted on a forum sharing the bad news and bitcoins were suggested half jokingly as a payment alternative, saying nobody understands them.
That made me curious, gathered information and enden up buying.
Hazek on ronpaulforums.com. I was turned off by the first 2011 crash, but when I saw the price was rising again back in February, I was convinced and started diving in.
Definitely about the same time that I learned about Tor a year or two ago. I ended up purchasing about 50 coins for $2.50 each, sold and repurchased them and finally decided that $12 per coin was the highest they would probably reach and sold them all. Went from extremely happy to very disappointed now that I didn't keep them. 
Learned about Bitcoin after googling "how to make money with your computer", back in late 2011!
I was reading an article about hashing on GPU's.
Really wish I invested back then...
Really wish I invested back then...
All credits to coinbase ..the 0.1BTC sign up bonus was all that made it go viral all over forums and as such i learnt about bitcoins..
I'm not rightly sure, I know it was a couple years ago but it didn't really click. I was reintroduced to it by Reddit rather recently.
saw a post referencing it a few years ago as the 'next big thing' on a poker forum i frequent. read about them, became a believer, and now im here.
My friend suggested it to me about 2 years ago when it was 1-2 $ but I never bought into it . Now I'm totally sold on it and accepting it on my website
stumbled across it at circa 5am on the 21st July 2010 - shared it with a good friend, who shared it with amir, who then got in to it and organised the first bitcoin conference - funny how things work, wish I'd staked in it then rather than later - could have had several thousand BTC, instead i just kept 5 and ignored it for a couple of years whilst i worked on other stuff
Saw it in a news article online a few months back.
I heard about it some time back. Then I finally took a bigger look once an email went out from symantec put a warning about bots and trojans mining.
Bitcoin was mentioned in an article by Robert Prechter.
I learned of Bitcoin when wikileaks was on the map and Visa, Mastercard and paypal banned them. Forbes wrote an article about them starting to accept Bitcoin and I was sold!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/
i heard about it in one HYIP as they are going to implement this bitcoin curency .
I found out about it a few years ago from an article on Hacker News. It was titled something like "The Most Dangerous Idea in the World", or something like that. I was fascinated by the implications of bitcoin.
I got involved, created a valuable service, and never looked back.
I got involved, created a valuable service, and never looked back.
I heard about Bitcoin originally a few years ago from a news article on the internet (probably BBC). Then forgot about it until I happened to come across it again on Wikipedia.
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