I heard of bitcoin in 2011-12 for the first time while it was largely associated with silk roads. Living hand to mouth at the time raising children and didn't have 2 nickels to rub together.
Then in late 2016 I met a guy who had loads of mining rigs living in Bali. He told me and everyone else he was processing data for large companies. No mention of coins. I discovered what he was really doing some months later and it was the shroud of secrecy around his "business" that led me to investigate and eventually discover the little known fundamentals behind bitcoin.
After much research it became clear to me that I'd found a peaceful revolutionary tool that aligned with and greatly enhanced my activism. Subsequent bull run of 2017 concreated this.
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November 18, 2018, 08:00:53 PM
November 18, 2018, 07:58:28 PM
College is a huge scam. People are going into debt for thousands of dollars for a useless piece of paper. You can already learn everything for free with all the resources out there. It's quite funny, the wealthiest people I know didn't even attend college.
This may be off topic but the majority of wealth being created is going straight to the top. We are more productive than ever but wages have been stagnant. Younger generations can barely even afford to live with the rising housing and medical costs. Capitalism is going to implode on itself.
This may be off topic but the majority of wealth being created is going straight to the top. We are more productive than ever but wages have been stagnant. Younger generations can barely even afford to live with the rising housing and medical costs. Capitalism is going to implode on itself.
Maybe it is a scam for some occupations, but I wouldn't want my doctor to have "learned it on the internetz". Sure, that's not what you ment but...
November 18, 2018, 07:57:26 PM
Love the stories please keep them coming.
On college degrees, they are kinda necessary for engineers. That’s not something you want to learn by experience. College degrees allow you to learn from other people’s experience...
On college degrees, they are kinda necessary for engineers. That’s not something you want to learn by experience. College degrees allow you to learn from other people’s experience...
November 18, 2018, 07:54:42 PM
.....College is a huge scam. ....
Well admittedly, I went to college and learned how to make money selling weed.... So there's that...
Dunno about you peasants, but I studied physics.... 100% worth it.
Any degenerated "college" with imaginary courses like gender studies is a scam without a doubt. Thats why you study at european universities.
Even my friends with "valuable" degrees can't find good jobs. People are being mislead and told to go into STEM but the entire job market is in a race to the bottom because of globalization.
BTW whats the deal with the hats?
November 18, 2018, 07:49:09 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in some geek forum, came here to take a look and made myself an account. Must have been 2011. Never thought I'd actually get any. They are useless nerdy whatnots, right? Then I found out that another nerdy thing I'd read about was in actual use and worked fairly well. Something about onions. I found out there were people around the world willing to take nerdy whatnots for actual merchandise, quite hard to come by in other ways.I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
So I bought some, a bit more than I actually needed, just to be sure - at $6-$7 each, then $10. It was a bit of a hassle to buy. Spent some, lost some in the Old West scene it was at the time. Hedl some. Never really stopped buying just for the heck of it, even when my hunger for onions vanished. I even mined a little with my Nvidia GPU while it was still slightly profitable - like 0.02-0.03 a day. Deepbit anyone?
I came here at regular intervals. Read Meta and Speculation mostly. One day I felt like posting, but the old account was too easy to connect to my other personas. Remember what happened to DPR. Not that I have anything to hide, but you know. A little disconnection is always a good thing. Make a new account. And here I am.
November 18, 2018, 07:48:22 PM
.....College is a huge scam. ....
Well admittedly, I went to college and learned how to make money selling weed.... So there's that...
Dunno about you peasants, but I studied physics.... 100% worth it.
Any degenerated "college" with imaginary courses like gender studies is a scam without a doubt. Thats why you study at european universities.
November 18, 2018, 07:47:33 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I first came across it from a news article on the BBC's website (of all places) back at the end of Feb 2013. The little tyke had just surpassed its previous ATH.
From a deep cynicism of the traditional financial system, it was like a breath of fresh air.
That sounds nice and all until we find out bitcoin was created by the government/ illumanti/ CIA/NWO so they could test out a world currency.
November 18, 2018, 07:46:21 PM
.....College is a huge scam. ....
Well admittedly, I went to college and learned how to make money selling weed.... So there's that...
November 18, 2018, 07:45:38 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in some geek forum, came here to take a look and made myself an account. Must have been 2011. Never thought I'd actually get any. They are useless nerdy whatnots, right? Then I found out that another nerdy thing I'd read about was in actual use and worked fairly well. Something about onions. I found out there were people around the world willing to take nerdy whatnots for actual merchandise, quite hard to come by in other ways.I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
So I bought some, a bit more than I actually needed, just to be sure - at $6-$7 each, then $10. It was a bit of a hassle to buy. Spent some, lost some in the Old West scene it was at the time. Hedl some. Never really stopped buying just for the heck of it, even when my hunger for onions vanished. I even mined a little with my Nvidia GPU while it was still slightly profitable - like 0.02-0.03 a day. Deepbit anyone?
I came here at regular intervals. Read Meta and Speculation mostly. One day I felt like posting, but the old account was too easy to connect to my other personas. Remember what happened to DPR. Not that I have anything to hide, but you know. A little disconnection is always a good thing. Make a new account. And here I am.
November 18, 2018, 07:45:15 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I first came across it from a news article on the BBC's website (of all places) back at the end of Feb 2013. The little tyke had just surpassed its previous ATH.
From a deep cynicism of the traditional financial system, it was like a breath of fresh air.
That sounds nice and all until we find out bitcoin was created by the government/ illumanti/ CIA/NWO so they could test out a world currency.
November 18, 2018, 07:43:43 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I first came across it from a news article on the BBC's website (of all places) back at the end of Feb 2013. The little tyke had just surpassed its previous ATH.
From a deep cynicism of the traditional financial system, it was like a breath of fresh air.
November 18, 2018, 07:43:10 PM
November 18, 2018, 07:37:02 PM
But I did pay back my student loan with profits which was nice.
I hear there's a lot of college grads out there buried in debt right now .
Like you, they'd be a hell of a lot better off had they got on bitcoin boat* rather than the boat they are in now.
(edit...*before
College is a huge scam. People are going into debt for thousands of dollars for a useless piece of paper. You can already learn everything for free with all the resources out there. It's quite funny, the wealthiest people I know didn't even attend college.
This may be off topic but the majority of wealth being created is going straight to the top. We are more productive than ever but wages have been stagnant. Younger generations can barely even afford to live with the rising housing and medical costs. Capitalism is going to implode on itself.
November 18, 2018, 07:28:51 PM
But I did pay back my student loan with profits which was nice.
I hear there's a lot of college grads out there buried in debt right now.
Like you, they'd be a hell of a lot better off had they got on bitcoin boat* rather than the boat they are in now.
(edit...*before
November 18, 2018, 07:26:25 PM
Yeah, back to 6500 is my guess.
back to 1500 is my guess
I smell a nocoiner full of hatred.
November 18, 2018, 07:21:09 PM
got the POLL wrong a ..... yeah wrong
so bit of BULL poll and the price will follow
that said .... going into the HODLcave after a weekend of bigboy drinking
time for a very sober week ...
November 18, 2018, 07:16:44 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I was playing bakbakrakiki on the 9th moon or Eldroonor the gamblers kept mentioning bitcoin. I won a big hand and the guy paid me off with this time cube. Supposed to give me more time, I fiddled with it a bit and it transported me to my current job in Morrisons Salford. I am waiting for my turn at reductions. That seems to be the key according to ziggy. The old lady comes on Wednesdays.
mmmm so both of us became bitconians cause of gambling ....... i played him that was known as the headmaster of online poker @night and days and did came out alive with bags "sticks" of what is know as BTC
*true story i heard first on my private @that time home game of poker* (and never heard or read about it before, and became a hodlers since that evening-night, for a non computer guy, that never heard of it before its strange to became an instant HODLER not? proud of my decission right there) .......... all the other guy's where laughin that time with my invisible-internet money
who's laughin now ??
Gentlemen, we are the 1%. The actual 1% that matter. The fiatsters will be removed in due course, but bitcoin is not money. It is a thing, it is data. As hyperinflation hits, so too will bitcoin continue to rise. Hodl fast.
November 18, 2018, 07:16:01 PM
15/11/2018 bitserve 
20/11/2018 Globb0
22/11/2018 Last of the V8s
01/12/2018 Alexander_Z
07/03/2019 CoinCube
15/04/2019 Spaceman_Spiff_Original
20/06/2019 bitebits
13/12/2019 nikauforest
10/04/2020 yefi
05/09/2020 samson
23/06/2021 fortune143
12244$
i suggest a almost TRIPLE up or globb0 follows shortly
imagine this..... come inhale a bit of hopium cause we never know with BTC
20/11/2018 Globb0
22/11/2018 Last of the V8s
01/12/2018 Alexander_Z
07/03/2019 CoinCube
15/04/2019 Spaceman_Spiff_Original
20/06/2019 bitebits
13/12/2019 nikauforest
10/04/2020 yefi
05/09/2020 samson
23/06/2021 fortune143
12244$
i suggest a almost TRIPLE up or globb0 follows shortly
imagine this..... come inhale a bit of hopium cause we never know with BTC
November 18, 2018, 07:10:13 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I was playing bakbakrakiki on the 9th moon or Eldroonor the gamblers kept mentioning bitcoin. I won a big hand and the guy paid me off with this time cube. Supposed to give me more time, I fiddled with it a bit and it transported me to my current job in Morrisons Salford. I am waiting for my turn at reductions. That seems to be the key according to ziggy. The old lady comes on Wednesdays.
mmmm so both of us became bitconians cause of gambling ....... i played him that was known as the headmaster of online poker @night and days and did came out alive with bags "sticks" of what is know as BTC
*true story i heard first on my private @that time home game of poker* (and never heard or read about it before, and became a hodlers since that evening-night, for a non computer guy, that never heard of it before its strange to became an instant HODLER not? proud of my decission right there) .......... all the other guy's where laughin that time with my invisible-internet money
who's laughin now ??
November 18, 2018, 07:00:39 PM
I would like to hear people’s stories about how they first heard about Bitcoin ?
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I read about it in Wired Magazine in early 2013. I was familiar with gold farming in WOW so it didn’t seem too outlandish. It took a second mention in the media in November 2013 for me to pay attention and find this forum on google.
I stumpled on bitcoin back in the autumn of 2012 through a random google search: At the time I was thinking of investing my surplus student loan (a few hundred usd worth) and thought about possible industries that I should invest in. I had this notion that the internet revolution wasn't over yet but rather one industry at a time was still being revolutionzed from the less conservative to more conservative. I tried to think of industries that were ultra conservative and hadn't really been digitized yet. Banking was the obvious answer (actually thought of car industry first) and after some random googling I stumpled on Bitcoin through pure luck.
Bought Bitcoin with everything I had to spare at 9usd IIRC. Couldn't believe my luck when Bitcoin started mooning soon thereafter and, of course, sold most like a fool. I hadn't really thought through my investment strategy in the case if I actually was right. You could say I took a big investment risk but hadn't properly planned on how to take profit out of it which was idiotic. In the end, I still have about 25% my original Bitcoin. And, no, I'm not rich as I only had very little money to invest back then. But I did pay back my student loan with profits which was nice.
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