Read something on cryptome.org about a digital currency that is not subject to government controls.
Same here, government made me do it.
Topic: What got you into Bitcoin? (Read 1472 times)
Same here, government made me do it.
Read something on cryptome.org about a digital currency that is not subject to government controls.
I got into it after reading a story on metafilter.com back in mid-2011 about how bitcoins were being used to trade illegal drugs on a hidden Tor service called the Silk Road.
It just clicked for me then. Bitcoin wasn't just some silly nonsense, people were actually using it to facilitate real trade. I immediately dove in a bought my first 50 bitcoins by using the SecondLife -> Virwox method.
It just clicked for me then. Bitcoin wasn't just some silly nonsense, people were actually using it to facilitate real trade. I immediately dove in a bought my first 50 bitcoins by using the SecondLife -> Virwox method.
At some point i bought 10 rigs for some other purpose. Since there wasnt work all the time, I tried looking for something to keep them busy
A hatred of our current currencies and central banking, I literally rage typed about currencies once and then Bitcoin popped up onto google 
Hahahaha I believe this.
A hatred of our current currencies and central banking, I literally rage typed about currencies once and then Bitcoin popped up onto google
I was so incredibly bored at work I found myself on the guardian's technology page and saw this article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/18/bitcoin-value-crash-cryptocurrency
I don't know why I clicked on it since the headline had no meaning whatsoever to me at the time, but after lots of reading and research and getting excited about Bitcoin's potential I thought; 'Come on then, mister so-called economics graduate. If what you have studied has any value at all, you should be able to fleece these nerds for all they are worth.'
It hasn't quite worked out like that...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/18/bitcoin-value-crash-cryptocurrency
I don't know why I clicked on it since the headline had no meaning whatsoever to me at the time, but after lots of reading and research and getting excited about Bitcoin's potential I thought; 'Come on then, mister so-called economics graduate. If what you have studied has any value at all, you should be able to fleece these nerds for all they are worth.'
It hasn't quite worked out like that...
I had been interested in alternative currencies including egold and am fascinated with the theory of Bitcoin. It is not backed by precious metals or anything yet is used in trade. What value is placed on..calculations? Supply and demand of nothing material, but most currency is just digits. Things that make me go hmmm.
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Saw a story about it in early 2011 and made a mental note to check it out. Didn't follow through on that until I saw another story in late May or early June 2011.
Saw a story about it in early 2011 and made a mental note to check it out. Didn't follow through on that until I saw another story in late May or early June 2011.
I was looking for fiat alternatives
A comment in a blog post in May 2011. Got me interested in mining - which I have done ever since.
I found it on RT, the Keiser report. He mentioned Bitcoin and I was really interested in what it was. Thought it was cool and didn't pay much attention to it, until I heard it again somewhere else, and decided to join this forum and talk about it 
Friend asked me if I knew where to buy Adderall, I did some searching online (lol, yes I'm a nerd), read about Silk Road, saw that SR only accepted "bitcoins" and remembered glancing over an article about Bitcoin in an IEEE magazine a while ago, quickly became more interested in bitcoin than SR, bought a couple of 5830's off ebay (this was the end of October/beginning of November 2012 when everyone was going crazy over the soon-to-be block reward halving) and started mining, then slowly got more and more into mining as I realized what an amazing technology bitcoin is. To the best of my knowledge my friend still never got his Adderall. But... I think the concept (and implementation) of bitcoin is amazing. 
I was reading a wikipedia article about e-currencies, was looking for something new since the fall of e-gold and a bitcoin link caught my attention.
Probably the incentive which finally pushed me into compiling and running Bitcoin was being pissed at what the mainstream institutions did to Wikileaks.
I downloaded the source in 2010, but got tied up with other financial matters until mid 2011. Oh well. Sloppy seconds at the end of 2011 has worked out OK anyway.
Max Keiser interview with Jon Matonis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GiQEECNcZM
An internal email within my company, along the lines of "Hey what do you think of this "bitcoin" thingy?". June 1st 2011, right in the middle of the bubble ecstasy.
A friend told me about a really cool app for the iPad, Zite. I installed it, and one of the articles that popped up was "Why I'm Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin" by Falkvinge. But what really got me was its deflationary nature (ok, ok, inflationary-neutral, you know what I mean)
It showed up on Hacker News while it was still in the cents range. I misunderstood it (I got thrown off by the mining/electricity aspect) and summarily dismissed it.
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