Topic: So how did YOU first hear about bitcoin? (Read 2110 times)
July 2010 slashdot article. I CPU mined on my laptop for about a week. Sometimes it worked (http://uofr.net/~bcg/a.jpg). But the difficulty grew so fast a few days later that I never generated another block...
I first heard about it from a friend in SeconfLife when bitcoins were 50 cents - 1$. It sounded silly and like some kind of scam when they briefly mentioned it was electronic cash and didnt say much more. A year or so later i heard about it again and i dont remember why but i looked into it. I did allot of research and stuck around and have been with it since.
Funny how everyone so far has dodged admitting they got into it to buy drugs and gamble.....
:O how dare you!
Guess what. I am clean. You see, of someone bet you with thngs like cookies. You wont be in trouble. Like if you lose the paper scissors stone to me. You gimmie the cookie. Those arent defined as gambling according to law. In order cases. We have a rule here that we cant have loans over 60 percent pa. Bitcoin solves the problem. Lime i owe you a meal today and i pay 2 meals for you next week. I am clean.
All becoz it is not a currency that is defined by law. Or de federal or whatever.
All becoz it is not a currency that is defined by law. Or de federal or whatever.
I'm glad you started gambling at such a young age. You will have a long life of poverty ahead of you. You should consider drinking alcohol and smoking while you're gambling. It makes the losing experience much more enjoyable.
I was buying a video card to replace my broken one and the reviews used hash rates as benchmarks, so I was intrigued... 
I heard about it from allinvain's post when I was surfing the web.
Guess what. I am clean. You see, of someone bet you with thngs like cookies. You wont be in trouble. Like if you lose the paper scissors stone to me. You gimmie the cookie. Those arent defined as gambling according to law. In order cases. We have a rule here that we cant have loans over 60 percent pa. Bitcoin solves the problem. Lime i owe you a meal today and i pay 2 meals for you next week. I am clean.
All becoz it is not a currency that is defined by law. Or de federal or whatever.
All becoz it is not a currency that is defined by law. Or de federal or whatever.
browsing FB->someone say BitcoinPlus give free $$ for webmaster->knew BTC (2 years ago)
Funny how everyone so far has dodged admitting they got into it to buy drugs and gamble.....
Underage betting? why not. I am 16 tomorrow, and i have been to SDice, dragon tales, even 1Broker for leverage trading in BTC (made a lotta coins there lol).... plus any gambling site that had giveaway eventsLovely! Officer, I hope you're printing this thread for your case notes.
browsing FB->someone say BitcoinPlus give free $$ for webmaster->knew BTC (2 years ago)
Funny how everyone so far has dodged admitting they got into it to buy drugs and gamble.....
Underage betting? why not. I am 16 tomorrow, and i have been to SDice, dragon tales, even 1Broker for leverage trading in BTC (made a lotta coins there lol).... plus any gambling site that had giveaway events 
heard about it from a friend who read Satoshi's paper and was super impressed and asked me to read it too.
Mind = Blown
and here i am.
Mind = Blown
and here i am.
In late 2010 I saw a mention in Slashdot, and so went to investigate.
4chan, believe it or not.
oddly, its the third very profitable bit of info I caught wind of on /b/
(I thoroughly researched each tip b4 investing ofc)
one involving a way to boost adsense profits (made over 60k)
another was a tip on some pharmaceutical penny stock (made ~30k)
and bitcoin I heard about in early 2012, started buying at 20 early this year as it was just beginning to shoot up.(wish I'd acted sooner)
sometimes the /b/ros are goodguygreg!
oddly, its the third very profitable bit of info I caught wind of on /b/
(I thoroughly researched each tip b4 investing ofc)
one involving a way to boost adsense profits (made over 60k)
another was a tip on some pharmaceutical penny stock (made ~30k)
and bitcoin I heard about in early 2012, started buying at 20 early this year as it was just beginning to shoot up.(wish I'd acted sooner)
sometimes the /b/ros are goodguygreg!
I read a short article about it on a Polish libertarian website in May 2011 and they linked to the weusecoins video that I watched and was intrigued by the idea of mining but didn't fully understand how it exactly worked at first. Managed to start mining on June 1st 2011 and started buying the next GPUs (mostly 5850s and 5870s) soon after that.
I have an acquaintance who is no way a 'technical' person (e.g. doesn't you're supposed to install at least some drivers after OS reinstall, etc.) but he heard of Bitcoin a few months before I did, (I think he mentioned February 2011), because he read about them somewhere. I really regretted that he hadn't told me, I would have made so much more when difficulty was that low (-;
I have an acquaintance who is no way a 'technical' person (e.g. doesn't you're supposed to install at least some drivers after OS reinstall, etc.) but he heard of Bitcoin a few months before I did, (I think he mentioned February 2011), because he read about them somewhere. I really regretted that he hadn't told me, I would have made so much more when difficulty was that low (-;
My friend called me and said, check this out. 24 hours later I owned my first bitcoins and had started mining.
Funny how everyone so far has dodged admitting they got into it to buy drugs and gamble.....
A year ago, I was watching Money as Debt documentary and someone was mentioning bitcoin in the comments
Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson Feb 2011
http://twit.tv/sn287
I got really interested in Bitcoin. I was going to do Mining. But something else distracted me, and I forgot about it until I read about the high rise in price. Kicking myself now.
http://twit.tv/sn287
I got really interested in Bitcoin. I was going to do Mining. But something else distracted me, and I forgot about it until I read about the high rise in price. Kicking myself now.
Read an article about the Allinvain theft. Sometimes I wonder if he bought back in, he would be fantastically rich if he did and it would be a nice way to wrap up the story as the hackers probably sold immediately instead of having the foresight to hold.
I had read about it a few times before 2011, but I failed to recognize the significance until I listened to this in April, 2011:
www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html
My recent understanding of the theoretic potential of colored coins and decentralized exchanges (property, shares, commodity-backed currencies, etc.) riding off the blockchain infrastructure have only made bitcoin that much more interesting.
www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/04/andresen_on_bit.html
My recent understanding of the theoretic potential of colored coins and decentralized exchanges (property, shares, commodity-backed currencies, etc.) riding off the blockchain infrastructure have only made bitcoin that much more interesting.
One month ago,from a news paper.
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