Topic: What got you into Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 1472 times)
Methinks it was an article on Reason.
I first heard about Bitcoin while listening to a speech given by Cory Doctorow that I watched during the first week of Jan, 2012. I have been using my home machines for some sort of distributed computing (Seti@Home, Folding@Home, etc) for many years, but the day I heard about Bitcoin I started researching and had the three machines I had at that point mining the next day and never looked back.
If I let it, I would get frustrated that I had not heard of Bitcoin before then, seen any of the related posts on Slashdot, etc. especially as involved in Distributed Computing as I have been for so long, but "you can't 'could have'", so oh well...
If I let it, I would get frustrated that I had not heard of Bitcoin before then, seen any of the related posts on Slashdot, etc. especially as involved in Distributed Computing as I have been for so long, but "you can't 'could have'", so oh well...
I'm sure threads like this have exist already but I'm making another anyways!
What got you interested in Bitcoin? Where did you find out about it and when?
I'm only curious because I stumbled onto a "make free money thread" on overclocked.net which talked about mining for bitcoins back when coins were under 5 bucks a pop. That thread was pretty soon locked/closed pending the legitmacy of Bitcoin and eventually lost forever.
If it wasn't for that thread I'd never heard of Bitcoin, ever. I've never seen any other bitcoin exposure outside of that one thread, unless it was something I found directly on this forum.
All I can say is I'm glad I found it, but it's just crazy to think about how if I didn't happen to see that one trending topic on the side of the page, I'd at this moment still have no clue Bitcoin exists.
What got you interested in Bitcoin? Where did you find out about it and when?
I'm only curious because I stumbled onto a "make free money thread" on overclocked.net which talked about mining for bitcoins back when coins were under 5 bucks a pop. That thread was pretty soon locked/closed pending the legitmacy of Bitcoin and eventually lost forever.
If it wasn't for that thread I'd never heard of Bitcoin, ever. I've never seen any other bitcoin exposure outside of that one thread, unless it was something I found directly on this forum.
All I can say is I'm glad I found it, but it's just crazy to think about how if I didn't happen to see that one trending topic on the side of the page, I'd at this moment still have no clue Bitcoin exists.
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