Topic: Poll - How did you find out about Bitcointalk? (Read 2694 times)

I can't find the link to vote but I saw the forum linked from a post on luckygames.

Google reveals bitcointalk pretty fast while searching for ways to make money in crypto space, I used to hunt for airdrops but I got tired of it because I earned too little, I'm here today because of google search engine

In the past I've came across this forum once but really I don't see any reason to join forums and talk to members about coins, I was so damn hooked with my mining setup thinking it's the only way to make money, I started hearing rumours about bounties in December 2019 from a home town boy who claimed he made some good money, was hard to believe until I started doing some research on past bounty campaigns, I feel it's way more better than mining, all it requires is just time and energy unlike mining, where electricity is the biggest enemy

It's awesome that almost so many people (>30%)  learned about bitcointalk from friend recommendations.

It says a lot about the quality of the forum.

I heard from a friend about this forum back in 2016. He acutallly stopped with crypto currencies a long time ago and I am glad that I am still around.

Find out about bitcointalk after i lost my job but i was first into faucet, hyip and ROI investment online lost my investment and the faucet/hyip not paying much.
I later increase search about bitcoin and my first intention is to learn more about bitcoin on this forum not knowing i could also earn some.

I think I saw a link somewhere to forum.bitcoin.org (old domain), aside from some freenode IRC channels it was the most important place to come for Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related discussions, reddit / /r/Bitcoin weren't as huge as they are now.

In my case, this happened back in 2014. At that time, I just started doing mining and did not really know anything about bitcointalk .
However, when I encountered a problem with my GUIminer on the mining.bitcoin.cz I began to look for a solution that brought me to bitcointalk to "mining support" branch.
As it often happens, I found not only a solution, but also a whole community that helped me dive deeper into the world of bitcoin and mining, as well as find answers to the most difficult tasks.
And to this I am infinitely grateful. 

I am sharing my true story about how to know that Bitcointalk. You can also call me greedy because one of my friends has earned a lot by working from this forum. I am the son of a middle-class family. Always looking for how to earn a little extra. So after hearing the story of his earnings in the mouth of the friend, I went after greed. Then I started searching Google on this and tried to learn something. But there was no profit. Then I found out about YouTube. Because my friend didn't want to teach me, I couldn't even learn anything behind him for a few days. Still, he did not give up. I finally learned Google and YouTube and learned more about the forum. That forum is not just a means of earning.

Finally, I created an account in the forum and now I am trying to earn some money.

I can never forget how I find out about this forum  
Back in 2016 I was working for a company and they had some financial issue. So, they paid me my payment in BTC and I knew nothing about Bitcoin. After searching trough internet I found this forum. So, I came here and wanted to sell all my bitcoins. I found someone and sold him 2.7 BTC for ~1.6K USD.
A few months later I saw bitcoin trading for more than 15K USD! I was feeling regret for selling my bitcoins. So, I returned here and start to learning about this new currencies to avoid such new regrets in future.
Sad story, But made it start learning about it.

I was very interested about bitcoin since I first heard about it.And I read some articles where I knew about it's advantages and it's fundamental.From then I just wanted to collect bitcoin as much as I can.Because I believed that this coin will be the most demanding and popular.Then I started reading articles and posts to know opinions from others.Than I was redirected to this forum and saw that all the bitcoin lovers are here and they are discussing about topics what I need to know.
And those I told,I told with honesty.

I was 17 yrs old when there was a good samaritan introduced me this forum. Honestly, I am not a typical user here who knows everything about cryptography or even have backgrounds in computer. It is hard for me to get things in my mind because I have no knowledge when I was a newbie. That's the reason why I was stuck with my rank before.

In fact, I thought before that this forum is just for money. Then suddenly, I realized that learning is more valuable than shit tokens we've got. So, I decided to study everything until now.  I don't know where will I start. But I was determined to improve myself.

My mentor who introduced me this stuff also inspired me. Because he have nothing before but right now, he is already a millionaire with a lot of knowledge.

That's why I am really thankful to him because without him, I will be an ignorant in total with cryptocurrency until now. I didn't make money for the last few months. And I can't improve my speaking skills as well.

I really acknowledge him a lot because without him, Nellayar doesn't exist here.

Edit:

Oh I forgot why he shared this stuff to me. It is because we visited their house and this was opened to him. Fortunately, I was there to ask him about how to join. He saw my curiosity and of course he want to help me. And that is the time that he introduced me this forum.

Couple of years back my friend was talking about the crypto currency and its usage and the way it is going to be the future of the world. This took me a lot interest to understand about it and know many other things. He suggested me to visit this forum as it like the wikipedia of the crypto where you will get all the information required and all the help if you are struck or have any query. People on this forum are very helpful and impart various knowledge and also a knowledge warehouse. I stared understanding and reading various sections and then realized that I was quite late to come to this forum as people were already part of this forum form long back. But yes, never mind after that never looked back.

If we do an honest job of analyzing the market before investing in Bitcoin we will prevent scams within the case of bitcoin investing it's far better to remain stable therefore the price will always go up and down, so you've got to attend and see. I also learned about Bitcoin through my friend. He opened the ID on behalf of me and taught me the work Now I even have learned tons and traded Bitcoin.

I get to know about btt from through a friend. Each time we are together, you'll see him getting much occupied with this forum than giving me attention. Because of that, I was moved to ask him what this forum is all about. He lectured me for about a week about bitcoin and how this forum gets related to it (how it works) before he finally open an account for me. Ever since then, I keeps falling in love with btt. Although he has given up on btt because scam project, while am still here "standing firm"

A simple search makes me redirected to bitcoins as well the dark side of it but I search more and dig more information regarding on it and finally I am been brought up here, At first I quite since I feel bored but when my rank got more higher and the information I get is so useful to gain then I continue to became an active user here since there are so many opportunities posted here.

I think there are also a lot of people who found out about bitcoin through a friend. Well, I'm no different. A friend talked me it. We were in school that time. We were classmates. He encouraged me to try it because just by posting, I would be able to earn money. He even patronized me for being a student-journalist and that posting there would be easy peasy. It sounded good to me. But I hesitated. My answers were full of excuses like we don't have a stable internet connection, and the typical thought that it was just a scam.

But few months later, he was already able to buy himself a new phone, and new things in school. Like, what?! So I was wrong. It was not a scam. Then I finally asked him to how to join. Now, I feel kinda sad that I didn't believe him that moment. And now I wish that I should've entered sooner.

Well, the important thing is that I'm here now. My father is the one skeptic about this when he knew that I'm into crypto but my earnings was able to buy some of our household needs. Guess he won't be skeptic anymore. Besides, I have no plan of stopping being a part of this forum. This has helped me a lot in so many ways.

I found out about this forum when I started working for Stake, at first I was only reading the forum but not long ago I decided to write posts and to interact with our community.

Gotta jog my brain for a bit here. Iirc, it was one of those days in our school library where one of my friends were telling me that one of our classmates who was a tech geek was mining Bitcoin in our Library's PC. Curiosity got the best out of me and decided to look it up and that pretty much got me into it. I talked about my friend about what BTC actually was in the past and stuff like that. A few months after I managed to stumble about this site. I was kind of an in and out guy back then cause I was struggling with my studies back then but I'm pretty much free recently and have managed to finally balance my studies and life making it a lot less hassle to handle.

I know the forum layout is old. As I said, I've been using a local forum for years. It was once based vBulletin platform with layout very similar to Bitcointalk. But in Mar 2020, due to security problem, that forum upgraded to xenForo. I think you know the feelings when you move to a new house. Even it's bigger, nicer but you really miss your old house at the first time. And then I found this forum with same oldschool style. That's how everything went. You can find my favorite local forum's old layout in below pictures:

You'd be surprised this forum layout is pretty outdated. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see the version (SMF) roughly 10 years old, just like Bitcoin .

Maybe that could be the reason why theymos doesn't want to upgrade it