It was the best way to buy Alpaca Socks back in 2011.
Do you remember is Grass Hill Alpacas the original?
http://www.grasshillalpacas.com/alpacaproductsforbitcoinoffer.html
....or a copycat?
Topic: [STORIES] How did you find Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 2481 times)
Do you remember is Grass Hill Alpacas the original?
http://www.grasshillalpacas.com/alpacaproductsforbitcoinoffer.html
....or a copycat?
I find myself so unlucky to first find Bitcoin first only last year
An Ars Technica article back on Jan 18th 2013.
The article was about the then new mega.co.nz service, it didn't mention bitcoin itself but it was mentioned in the comments. Here is the article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/mega-arrives-ars-goes-hands-on-with-kim-dotcoms-cloud-storage-site/
Here is the comment:
I then spent some time researching 'bitcoin' just purely on interest. I bought in before the end of the month.
Thankyou "lucianarmasu".
The article was about the then new mega.co.nz service, it didn't mention bitcoin itself but it was mentioned in the comments. Here is the article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/mega-arrives-ars-goes-hands-on-with-kim-dotcoms-cloud-storage-site/
Here is the comment:
I then spent some time researching 'bitcoin' just purely on interest. I bought in before the end of the month.
Thankyou "lucianarmasu".
It was the best way to buy Alpaca Socks back in 2011.
Cant remember exactly but heard about it a few times in 2012. Never really peaked my interest until a friend mentioned it again and once I had read the whitepaper and understood, that was it.
This website, called compute4cash, where they ran their own version of polcbm pointed to their wallets discreetly, and then paid you USD for your work.
I think then I read more about it and someone said that referenced that it was just something about "bitcoin mining". So I did a little research, determined that that was literally what it was, and got into it that way.
I remember compute4cash shut down in the crash between $32 and $3. I always kind of wonder if they ever cashed out their coins at the low there or if they held on...
I think then I read more about it and someone said that referenced that it was just something about "bitcoin mining". So I did a little research, determined that that was literally what it was, and got into it that way.
I remember compute4cash shut down in the crash between $32 and $3. I always kind of wonder if they ever cashed out their coins at the low there or if they held on...
Date Registered: August 11, 2011, 01:16:03 AM
Back when you only needed 87MH/s, guess the date and time
ummm yeah. remember it well
MAX KEISER ! funny how much mud is slung his way. but nevertheless, Thank You.
just how it is/was
MAX KEISER ! funny how much mud is slung his way. but nevertheless, Thank You.
just how it is/was
2012, ive been always reading about the non fiat movement, gold standards, and such, so the Bitcoin discussion came across.
I didnt understand the hell of it, and later on i finally bought half BTC at about 140€. When it skyrocketed to 600€ i bought some Magic the gathering cards with it and felt like the king of the jungle / God of the HackerZ interWebz Money :-))))
since then i learned a lot more and now i feel a part of it, rather than a mere speculator. Hell, i even mine some Spaincoin and DOGEs with my GPU at night xD
I didnt understand the hell of it, and later on i finally bought half BTC at about 140€. When it skyrocketed to 600€ i bought some Magic the gathering cards with it and felt like the king of the jungle / God of the HackerZ interWebz Money :-))))
since then i learned a lot more and now i feel a part of it, rather than a mere speculator. Hell, i even mine some Spaincoin and DOGEs with my GPU at night xD
Slashdot had an article on Bitcoin 0.3 (?) release in July 2010. The only miner was the client, there was no way to connect external miners, the getwork protocol only came up later that year with the idea of GPUs and pools. I mined 7 blocks on a Core 2 Duo and sold them for 24.50 EUR. Good times!
In 2014 January only i come to know about Bitcoin through my friend.
Ripple user group mailing list, early 2009. We were looking for a solution to a lot of problems in making a p2p money system...so our finding out about bitcoin was inevitable. If I could shake the guy's hand who sent that email to the list, I would, as that one email changed my life dramatically.
The first time I saw bitcoin when it was ~5 cents each (sometime in mid 2010?) and it had recently shot up 10x from ~0.005 (half a penny)
Since it was up 10x and I was short on liquid cash I didn't buy any.
Also, I wasn't aware of mining; This was just a little site with a crude price chart offering BTC for 5 cents each.
Oops....
Since it was up 10x and I was short on liquid cash I didn't buy any.
Also, I wasn't aware of mining; This was just a little site with a crude price chart offering BTC for 5 cents each.
Oops....
I think I might have heard of it before, but I pulled the repository for the first time in association with my desire to help support Wikileaks (and thus, my country (the U.S.))
Bitcoin did not have an auto-configuration system at the time (and indeed, lacked one until recently) and it would take some effort to get it to compile on my secure platform. I got busy with other financial related issues and didn't get back to Bitcoin until after the 2011 spike. Oh well...I did well anyway by buying down into the late 2011 bottom.
Read about it in a tech article in 2010. Wish I actually bothered to buy some then, wasn't sure whether it would actually get anywhere. Clearly it has, so better late than never.
I was surfing the web in early 2013 and somehow stumbled onto something talking about bitcoins and once I bought my first coin, I didn't look back. It's been quite an adventure this far and it's not nearly ending yet!
A few years ago, one of my friends said he was "buying drugs with his graphics card" by running some open source software, I thought that was so utterly ridiculous I just had to check it out. Spent months reading up on all the finer aspects of Bitcoin and finally bought in. It's been a wild ride ever since!
I found it cause I was looking for Prepaid debit cards for a stealth paypal account. Also I was getting messages in my spam for BM CCs
January 2011, I forgot exactly how but I stumbled upon bitcoin.org at like 2am one night and from the instant I read what it was all about I knew it was going to change the world.
It was all I talked about to my friends for about 2 weeks, most were extremely skeptical as I couldn't explain it to them as well as I can now.
I bought a couple hundred via paypal for 40 cents each and proceeded to gamble all but 20 away.
I then forgot about them for a few months and the next time I checked the price they were $8 and I was shocked and really mad at myself.
It was all I talked about to my friends for about 2 weeks, most were extremely skeptical as I couldn't explain it to them as well as I can now.
I bought a couple hundred via paypal for 40 cents each and proceeded to gamble all but 20 away.
I then forgot about them for a few months and the next time I checked the price they were $8 and I was shocked and really mad at myself.
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