This guy and his fellow central bankers monopolistic control brings ppl to bitcoin daily.
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I first got into Bitcoin from this article in the New York Times. Then I got Bitcoin-Qt, and got my first bitcoin (or a fraction thereof) from free.btc.pt.
I've heard of Bitcoins back in 2009. At a quick glance, I thought it was like Paypal. Just another payment processor. As the years past, I ignored it and didn't think nothing much about it until I saw an article on Mashable about a Canadian man selling his home and willing to accept payment via Bitcoins. Then I was in awe! What is Bitcoin? What can I do with it? From there I did my research.
I'm an AM talkshow host. My co-host brought Bitcoin up in conversation. (I think it was a few days after the crash.)
I didn't know much about it, but as I was closing out the show, I said I would throw a computer together and try it out - and the phone-lines lit up with callers interested in following the story.
The next day, I went to Best Buy and bought a 7850 and started mining.
It took me 20 days to get to my first bitcoin.
A few upgrades later, and I had my next bitcoin in 10 days.
I blogged the steps I was taking - and my audience fell asleep with boredom.
I've since stopped even mentioning the word on the air. The perception was get rich quick - and $10 worth of bitcoins a day wasn't impressing anyone.
Now, it's just my own little obsession.
I didn't know much about it, but as I was closing out the show, I said I would throw a computer together and try it out - and the phone-lines lit up with callers interested in following the story.
The next day, I went to Best Buy and bought a 7850 and started mining.
It took me 20 days to get to my first bitcoin.
A few upgrades later, and I had my next bitcoin in 10 days.
I blogged the steps I was taking - and my audience fell asleep with boredom.
I've since stopped even mentioning the word on the air. The perception was get rich quick - and $10 worth of bitcoins a day wasn't impressing anyone.
Now, it's just my own little obsession.
A friend told me about it and I figured I'd try to get in before it crowds up.
The Greek government-debt crisis is the main reason for it
Started studying U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. My political awakening followed. I found a money trail connecting most of the worst atrocities in history to the international banks. I started hating banks. Just when I thought I couldn't hate banks anymore, the great recession hit, and I found a way. There is no word in the English language to describe how hideously evil the international bankers are. As my research continued, my hatred grew. I started watching Max Keiser. Max introduced me to bitcoin in the Summer of 2011. My life has never been the same since.
I wish there was a follow button so I could follow you Chalidore. Enlightened one.
Do you twitter?
Why doesn't this forum have a follow function?
Thanks. Glad to know reading all those books and watching all those documentaries made me wise enough to impress somebody other than my wife.
This is my fifth post, so I will be leaving the newbie section now. I plan on posting mostly in custom hardware and economic speculation.
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I listen to TWiT (This Week in Tech), hosted by Leo Laporte. I heard about BitCoin a few times on the podcast. I looked into it and noticed the price was around $55 USD per coin but it had recently been $254!
Figured I had to look more into this! I now own 1.39 BTC and bought around $75 per. Sure wish I was more ahead of the curve on this. Oh well...
Figured I had to look more into this! I now own 1.39 BTC and bought around $75 per. Sure wish I was more ahead of the curve on this. Oh well...
Some PulseNews articles I read. I had heard about it a long time ago but thought it sounded kind of silly and expected it to die soon afterwards.
To be honest, I still think it's a little silly but if people value it, I'm down to explore that further. Seems wrought with shady activity though...
To be honest, I still think it's a little silly but if people value it, I'm down to explore that further. Seems wrought with shady activity though...
the money brought me here 
My husband told me about it and I found out I could accept it using my Magento shopping cart.
A certain site I was curious to see.
I heard about bitcoin over the past year or two, in random science news article headlines that I just glanced over and didn't read. Then a couple months ago I finally read some article about bitcoin linked by ahem*slashdot*ahem mentioning mining. Then I looked up what mining is and starting reading about the history of bitcoin.
Then I immediately got depressed that I've been building high-end gaming rigs and running "charity" distributed computing projects for years, when I could have been making money!
Then I got more bummed that on my last build, I built with a watercooled gtx580!
Now I'm just fascinated by it due to my libertarian political/Austrian economic viewpoints.
Also mining with my newly acquired 7950.
Then I immediately got depressed that I've been building high-end gaming rigs and running "charity" distributed computing projects for years, when I could have been making money!
Then I got more bummed that on my last build, I built with a watercooled gtx580!
Now I'm just fascinated by it due to my libertarian political/Austrian economic viewpoints.
Also mining with my newly acquired 7950.
I've always been mad at the US economy, bankers, and politicians. I wanted money in a decentralized currency. I never thought it would take off like it did though! Put over 50% of my money in coins when they were $13. I'm quite lucky!
I've known it since 2011 or so but didn't pay too much attention till the recent spike in value. Bad mistake ^^'
Greedy central banks brought me here! 
Andy B
Andy B
Started studying U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. My political awakening followed. I found a money trail connecting most of the worst atrocities in history to the international banks. I started hating banks. Just when I thought I couldn't hate banks anymore, the great recession hit, and I found a way. There is no word in the English language to describe how hideously evil the international bankers are. As my research continued, my hatred grew. I started watching Max Keiser. Max introduced me to bitcoin in the Summer of 2011. My life has never been the same since.
I wish there was a follow button so I could follow you Chalidore. Enlightened one.
Do you twitter?
Why doesn't this forum have a follow function?
Started studying U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. My political awakening followed. I found a money trail connecting most of the worst atrocities in history to the international banks. I started hating banks. Just when I thought I couldn't hate banks anymore, the great recession hit, and I found a way. There is no word in the English language to describe how hideously evil the international bankers are. As my research continued, my hatred grew. I started watching Max Keiser. Max introduced me to bitcoin in the Summer of 2011. My life has never been the same since.
I first got introduced when my friend bought some bitcoins on mtgox. My first bitcoins were from bitfloor ouch.
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