Topic: My Bitcointalk, BTC Story. (Read 1702 times)

Thank you very much for sharing these stories. Of course, awarded the best one with merit. I hope to see more stories and I still have a couple of merits left to award them.

I came across bitcointalk.org since but I didn't really know much about it and I was lazy to make my research on it. One of Friends Godwin hard to convince me to give a try. I open the account but was ask to pay for it before I can type and this was a turn off for me. I told him guy I can't do it and wunt pay any thing. As a good friend he offered me an account and am liking here.

Let me share my story with you as well. I open my first Bitcointalk account in 2017 I was ask to pay a token for evil fee and I was not happy about it when have not even use the account before so how did I commit evil with it. Last last I still pay for it because I was eager to post here. Actually I opened two accounts but only payed for one I left the 2nd one like that without using it. Just this year June that my account (https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/unfredo-1780587)  was banned till today without any form of warning that made me very sad till today. But because I enjoy this forum I have to go back and pay the evil fee for that my 2nd acc to enable me posts.


If there is anyway I can recover my first account I'll appreciate it.
Mean while I have been making posts to get merit but is not just coming sha.

Let me share my story here:

My very first post in this community: How to Recover Lost Bitcoin. You heard it right, I was involved in bitcoin around 2011-2012, I joined some website that supposedly give you $$$ at that time, sort of doing task and services and you are getting paid. I vividly remember "Satoshi" name, some experiment as the owners have mentioned. So just go to the usual task everyday, I totally forget the name of the website though. And then one day they said that the work is done and all the money that we have earn is going to be "Bitcoin".

NO clue about what is bitcoin is that time, they require us to create a wallet in https://www.bitaddress.org/ print and save the "private key". So I follow the instructions, move my supposedly digital money and that's it. I totally forgot about it.

Then somewhere late 2016, someone is popping me in Facebook, didn't bother to read his messages until New Year of 2017 and mentioning about this internet thingy that is taking the world by storm "Bitcoin".

So I recall that I have stash somewhere way back in 2010-2011 and so i scramble to look for the printed material with my bitcoin wallet address and private key. Damn, I went into sleepless nights trying to figure it out where I put it. Weeks past by, until in the middle of the night, I was able to find it. But my heart fell because I thought that I have like 10 BTC stash back then, Lol.

 Anyways, I got everything and then sold off everything without knowing that before the end of that year, the price will rock ~$20,000. Hard lesson for me because I don't know the thing about it and the HODL mentality, too late,  I could have made a tons of money in 2017. It is what it is so I can't do anything about it my to move forward and try to earn more bitcoins thru trading. 

I have it, which I hope satisfies your selection criteria. What I have done to earn merits written in my thread, and below is one post inside that thread.
Roadway from zero to hero

I have a couple of merits left so I encourage everyone to share your story and I will award the best once for sure. Just share how you found BTC and Bitcointalk this will be enough.

Thanks for sharing your story in my thread. I was so happy that I will read a new story because lately, there were only a few publications here.

Unfortunately, I have already read this thread just after your publication and even shared a short commented wishing you luck.

Still, this is very good that you shared the link here and I encourage every member to this same if already has his story published somewhere.

Always the chance is bigger that somebody will find this link and read your content if links are widely spread on the forum, especially to quality content.

That is my story: Roadway from zero to hero
Yeah, with help from merit system, and supports from community, I am here, as a Senior member.
My plan? I would prefer to finish my current challenge to hero member and celebrate it before Bitcoin halving.

Thank you for sharing this. Nice read I like such stories and ask for more.

My latest story is someone whom are jealously with stories from self-made users, and don't like inspirational stories.

Hours ago, I updated my old story that written when I ranked up to a Senior Member from scratch, months ago. I just re-read the Welcome message written by admin, and saw that interesting part.
I think, it is once again, demonstrates that users should read forum rules, pinned threads, and helpful guides repeatedly, because the more times they read, the more probability that they will discover something interesting and valuable.

I have a couple of merits left so I encourage everyone to share your story and I will award the best once for sure.

No matter if the story is simple or you are a newbie here. Just share how you found BTC and Bitcointalk this will be enough.

I am very happy that you liked my story. I will be very happy to read yours. Thanks for honest merit award and this comment.

I hope I will encourage everyone to post this thread. I need more members to give a good example and to share their stories here.

Fantastic story  , thanks for sharing it with us.

Indeed reporting is very time consuming but finally, I have mastered it.

Never got single merit because of my reports and never wanted to be famous because of them. Never created special report threads in meta or reputation sections to get merits only used the "report button" even if I found a big bot farm or multiple plagiarism attempts. I am and always was against multiple report threads (there are already existing once) and against merit awards because of reports.

TBH even after so many reports, I have seen no changes in the forum. There was so much spam at the end of 2017 that a few thousand less (because of my reports) made no visible difference.

That was the reason why I stopped to spend my time to look for abuse, report spam on my own and joined the Spambusters Club from the very beginning, to report all kind of abuse more efficiently. We have reported multiple threads in this club and work until today, very closely with moderators on our reports, to get the most value from our work.

TBH I did by myself after members advised me to move it back to the meta section because it could be removed by mistake.

Mods are only humans too and make sometimes mistakes. My thread is still in the meta section so I assume that was the case.

I don't know too, but eventually it was moved back here.
Last time, I posted in the thread, I was a Senior Member, but now I am a Hero Member. I actually made it on 30 Jul. 2019.
I am on the way to Hero Member rank. Within less than 2 years from register day
Glad to stay on the same rank as yours.

I fully agree with you and don't mind the beginners' section. I just couldn't understand why my thread was moved to the off-topic section which is not related at all with my post.

Because there are overlaps inside the @wwzsocki's story, including his journey in real life and with bitcoin & blockchain technology. On the other hand, the story tells about his journey with merit system, from Senior Member rank to Hero Member rank now. That's is the main reason why the thread can be fitted with Meta board.
For other stories, for example, solely tell about rank achievements with merit system's challenges, I still think they are more fitted with the Beginners & Help board. Not sure, but I kept my story in that board, not in Meta.
Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible.
Most of other stories are in Beginners & Help board, too: Inspirational stories from self-made promoted users

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Any ideas (hope that I am not wrong with it)?

Your story is not boring at all. Is just an honest story and thank you very much for sharing it. Maybe this will encourage other members to this same.
They maybe think, just like you, that they have a boring story and nothing to say, but this is not true as we see.
Every member of this forum has his own BTC and Bitcointalk forum story and I will be very happy to read all of them. Merits are waiting for the best stories!!!


This is true we haven't interacted together on the forum but maybe it would change in the future, I hope so. I am in Bitcoin almost from the start and after my first contact with BTC, I knew it would be something which would change the world. I just knew is the missing part of the internet. This is so funny that back in 2011 nobody wanted to listen about BTC and everybody had the exact same opinion as yours that this is a scam. This shows me clearly that from the start there were two groups of people. The first one the believers like me which after the first look at BTC, knew that this is something big, despite didn't understand the tech behind it fully also and had a lot of questions about it. Second group disbelievers which from the start treat BTC as a scam because there is too much fraud in the internet world. Some of them during the time get to know BTC better and joined the believers' club forces. Just like you @The Pharmacist.


Of course, I have used both of these faucets and even Freebitco.in I use to this day and have plenty of refs there, thanks to my signature. Today is not working so good because everybody already is familiar with this faucet, but back then I got hundreds of them every week. That was the time when I realized how strong such a signature is and how good ref links works on the forums. TBH back then faucets were paying a lot more like dust. I knew faucets which paid 0.5BTC just for signing up  . I like sometimes take a look at my BTC wallets history and my old transactions. Just yesterday I remind myself looking at my old transactions that I have won 3.5BTC in https://peerbet.org/. That was a raffle service back then where you put provably fair bets against each other. If I would only hold to this money it would be whooping 80.000$ if sold on ATH. I remember, I sold it only for 900$ and that was luckily my last transaction at Mr.Gox because the next day was hacked.


Exactly, despite there are more posts as in meta this section is a mess and a pure spam contest with no real activity. Even if somebody post there something never follow it further.
No real activity and real committed readers of that section. I would have nothing against off-topic but activity in this thread just died there.