Topic: So how did YOU first hear about bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 2121 times)
About 6 months ago, some guy I follow on Twitter was posting price updates when they were about $15ea.
I found out about it from an article in the book Best of American Science and Nature Writing 2011. Just wish I read about it a few months earlier than I did.
About a year ago from my friends. Didn't think it was anything but a fad for that whole last year. Recently my friends all bought 7970s and started mining. Don't know why but this caught my attention and I stopped thinking of bitcoin as a passing thing. Now I'm hooked...
And I know that Bitcoin is here to stay.
And I know that Bitcoin is here to stay.
Heard about bitcoins when I was browsing Flipboard while taking a dump and saw an article about bitcoin miners raking up USD150K in power each day.
Needless to say, that was one of the longest dump I've ever had while googling everything about bitcoin.
Needless to say, that was one of the longest dump I've ever had while googling everything about bitcoin.
Just imagining this story if BTC keeps going for years and years.
Talking to your grandkids, telling them about the dump that changed your life!
Heard about bitcoins when I was browsing Flipboard while taking a dump and saw an article about bitcoin miners raking up USD150K in power each day.
Needless to say, that was one of the longest dump I've ever had while googling everything about bitcoin.
Few months later, here I am in this forum still learning as much as I can about it while kicking myself for not discovering this earlier.
But hey, great community, enjoyable hobby for me now. (doubt I'm gonna be buying a new car with BTC anytime soon.)
Needless to say, that was one of the longest dump I've ever had while googling everything about bitcoin.
Few months later, here I am in this forum still learning as much as I can about it while kicking myself for not discovering this earlier.
But hey, great community, enjoyable hobby for me now. (doubt I'm gonna be buying a new car with BTC anytime soon.)
About one year ago. I take the light rail into work on occasion and it has wifi on all cars. I tend to use the time to catch up on email, get powerpoints done, and just surf the web when there's nothing else to do.
I was idly browsing Craigslist one day when one of the listings for a GPU mentioned something about "good for Bitcoin mining!!!" as a defining characteristic. Being curious - and having time on my hands - I hit up Google immediately afterward. The rest is history.
I was idly browsing Craigslist one day when one of the listings for a GPU mentioned something about "good for Bitcoin mining!!!" as a defining characteristic. Being curious - and having time on my hands - I hit up Google immediately afterward. The rest is history.
2011 from a co-worker. Sounded too similar to virtual currencies in games from the description. Now, regret. Better late(earlyish?) than never though!
I first heard of a mysterious e-currency that is the backdoor to all things bad and evil. Search high and low for it, keying in the keywords ecurrency etc. It took me sometime before I found Bitcoin, then I found this fantastic forum....
Browsing wikipedia, end of 2010
I think it was somewhere falsely listed as some sort of virtual gold currency like e-gold.
I could have been an early adopter then but I didn't think it would take off and wasn't greedy enough.
I think it was somewhere falsely listed as some sort of virtual gold currency like e-gold.
I could have been an early adopter then but I didn't think it would take off and wasn't greedy enough.
I'm curious how and when others on here first heard about bitcoin and what made them get into it.
Here's my quick story:
The first time I heard of bitcoin was sometime back in late 2009 when I was building an online store from scratch and wanted to avoid PayPal fees. I searched online for alternatives and found a site that listed several different online payment services and what their fees were. At the bottom of the list was "Bitcoin," advertised as having no transaction fees. I looked into it a little bit, but didn't understand it at all. I ended up staying with PayPal since most people use it.
Then in the fall of 2012, I was looking to buy a VPN service, and heard that bit coins were the preferred payment method because of the anonymity. I tried to buy some coins but couldn't figure out how to, so I just paid with my credit card.
Sometime around the middle of March this year I heard that the price of a bitcoin was $40 and rising. I remembered seeing the price at $12 just a few months earlier and so I did lots of reading and ended up putting almost all my savings into it.
Here's my quick story:
The first time I heard of bitcoin was sometime back in late 2009 when I was building an online store from scratch and wanted to avoid PayPal fees. I searched online for alternatives and found a site that listed several different online payment services and what their fees were. At the bottom of the list was "Bitcoin," advertised as having no transaction fees. I looked into it a little bit, but didn't understand it at all. I ended up staying with PayPal since most people use it.
Then in the fall of 2012, I was looking to buy a VPN service, and heard that bit coins were the preferred payment method because of the anonymity. I tried to buy some coins but couldn't figure out how to, so I just paid with my credit card.
Sometime around the middle of March this year I heard that the price of a bitcoin was $40 and rising. I remembered seeing the price at $12 just a few months earlier and so I did lots of reading and ended up putting almost all my savings into it.
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