Topic: how long ago did you heard about Bitcoin? Poll! (Read 2968 times)
The Slashdot dollar bitcoin parity article is what got me started. I was CPU mining right away but found nothing until I got my first GPU 2 weeks later.
Voted 8 (joined this forum in March), but I had "heard" of it earlier, just been to lazy to follow the link at the time. Meh, missed the chance of being an early adopter that way. 
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I first got scammed by this japanese bitcoin prince back when it was $30.
First learned of bitcoin in June. I was mining less than an hour later. 
Another interesting question: How long until you bought/mined your first coins?
Happened as fast as I could get my money transferred =) Maybe a week via Dwolla?
I went from ignorant to curious to skeptical to highly skeptical to intrigued to utterly obsessed and convinced within about 2 hours from seeing a FB post mentioning it.
+1 yup it only take about 2 hours ... and your hooked for life
i heard of it at the start of 2009 when it was basically worthless.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
+1 same here heh, lots of wasted time with a disgraceful person...
You too eh? 
i heard of it at the start of 2009 when it was basically worthless.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
+1 same here heh, lots of wasted time with a disgraceful person...
Another interesting question: How long until you bought/mined your first coins?
Happened as fast as I could get my money transferred =) Maybe a week via Dwolla?
I went from ignorant to curious to skeptical to highly skeptical to intrigued to utterly obsessed and convinced within about 2 hours from seeing a FB post mentioning it.
I joined becuase I just lost my job and my computer ran all day. I remember Google doing this screensaver thing where they would use your CPU resources to compute things. I also remember that the Fold @ Home doing something similar and I said to my self... there has gotta be a service out there that pays you for your CPU resources and man was I right!
Edit: in case your wondering I googled something like "Get paid for spare cpu resources" and then I found a forum that was telling people about Bitcoin(a non-bitcoin related forum)
Edit: in case your wondering I googled something like "Get paid for spare cpu resources" and then I found a forum that was telling people about Bitcoin(a non-bitcoin related forum)
heard about it in april mined my first coins in april
never purchased any coins ever
never purchased any coins ever
buy now you fool!
dont need to buy any - I mine enough
I heard about it here:
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69178
Didn't dl the client until August though.
http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=69178
Didn't dl the client until August though.
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back in April for me
OCN user? heard about it in april mined my first coins in april
never purchased any coins ever
never purchased any coins ever
buy now you fool!
heard about it in april mined my first coins in april
never purchased any coins ever
never purchased any coins ever
April 2010, while researching information bottlenecks. I think I found it on Sourceforge/Freshmeat... not sure if there was a git repository yet? Actually spent too much time researching Ven?!?! Came back in late November and have been amazed ever since.
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BW's reply by proxy:
It was almost a year ago...A Sunday morning, which I remember so well...Ed was making breakfast, as he always does on that day as we were getting ready for Unity...He had that twinkle in his eyes, which always made me want to go back to...I'm getting all weeping eye now just thinking about it...Anyway, I was on The Google researching some fund new project to get involved in when I came across Bitcoin...I got so excited, I spilled my OJ, which Ed so kindly cleaned up (what a sweetheart), then proceeded to explain to Ed what I just learned three minutes prior...He quickly grasp the concept, as he's good at seeing the whole picture (kiss, kiss) and, within five minutes, two new Internet TV shows were spermed spawn...The rest is history...We hosted a successful Bitcoin Expo in NYC and Pattaya became my Waterloo...Viva el Bitcoin (that was Ed)...
It was almost a year ago...A Sunday morning, which I remember so well...Ed was making breakfast, as he always does on that day as we were getting ready for Unity...He had that twinkle in his eyes, which always made me want to go back to...I'm getting all weeping eye now just thinking about it...Anyway, I was on The Google researching some fun
Heard about BTC 6 months ago on a radio station.
Something must went wrong as I'm still not a millionaire
WTF?
Something must went wrong as I'm still not a millionaire
WTF? 
i heard of it at the start of 2009 when it was basically worthless.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
4 months ago.
First heard Bitcoin from this Chinese article : "The most dangerous money in history: Bitcoin"
http://www.infzm.com/content/61130
"一个神秘的创始人，一群狂热的志愿者，创造了一种前所未有的没有中央发行机构的网络货币：比特币(Bitcoin's Chinese name). 有人盛赞它是货币的未来，也有人担心这是一场庞氏骗局，还有人担心它毁于政府的围剿."
Got so excited!
After learn some, buy some (10 BTC @ $15),
decided to mine coins.
It came to now.
NEVER SOLD A SINGLE COIN.
Btw, who's alinvain ?
First heard Bitcoin from this Chinese article : "The most dangerous money in history: Bitcoin"
http://www.infzm.com/content/61130
"一个神秘的创始人，一群狂热的志愿者，创造了一种前所未有的没有中央发行机构的网络货币：比特币(Bitcoin's Chinese name). 有人盛赞它是货币的未来，也有人担心这是一场庞氏骗局，还有人担心它毁于政府的围剿."
Got so excited!
After learn some, buy some (10 BTC @ $15),
decided to mine coins.
It came to now.
NEVER SOLD A SINGLE COIN.
Btw, who's alinvain ?
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