I would like to know what experiences did you had when you first started with Bitcoins. As for me, I had many that I would like to share with you.
When I began in the Bitcoin world, I was a complete rookie with no proper knowledge of how did mining worked or anything about cryptocurrencies. I just thought about Bitcoin as another payment processor like PayPal. But when I joined the BitcoinTalk community, I learned so many things along the way. In my process of learning in the first days, I decided to invest into cloud mining services. Since I didn't knew much about it, I invested a plenty amount of Bitcoins to start my journey into it. During that time, I had gotten into many different services. Those were GAW Miners, then Cointellect, cloudminr.io and finally Hashnest. After getting scammed many times by the services mentioned previously, (except for Hashnest) I have lost many Bitcoins. As a result, I decided to never invest into cloud mining and thus dedicate myself into learning more about the cryptocurrency and look for other ways to earn Bitcoins. It was then that I enrolled into the signature campaign that I am currently into and during all that time I began to earn Bitcoins as well as diversify my investments into different alt coins. Now I am dedicated to trading Bitcoins and other alt coins, as well as working for it (like the signature campaign and working as a freelancer) in order to earn coins and build up my portfolio along the way.
Anyways, what would be your experiences with this exciting cryptocurrency?
One of my friends told me about bitcoins in 2014, decided to start a bitcoin related website and bought my first bitcoins from Localbitcoins, but the site was not profitable, loss Then came to know about cloud mining sites, invested in PB mining and BCS, both turned out to be scams, loss. And at this point I realized I was doing something wrong. Back in 2014 there were hundreds of cloud mining, HYIP, and other ponzi sites, a newbie does not go through the scam accusations, it is just the profit that makes sense and that's what happened with me. After losing a substantial amount, I decided enough of investing and started spending time on this forum to understand the basics of bitcoin, trading, where not to invest.
My first experiences with bitcoin were a bit bad, but learned a lot from it.