Topic: When and how did you discover Bitcoin? - page 6. (Read 2348 times)

I discovered Bitcoin in the summer of 2017. I was on a vacation with my family and I was bored so I started scrolling trough the Facebook newsfeed. I stumbled upon a Facebook group where I saw the name of one of my faculty teachers. He has relatively unique name so it caught my eye. I joined and pretty quickly I registered here on the forum where I started reading and learning about Bitcoin and crypto in general. I must say that it was exiting to see messages from satoshi and other early adopters.

Wow, at that price, you are unquestionably a millionaire if you can hold on to it until now. I discovered bitcoin in 2016, I graduated from college around 2015, and I still hadn't found a job at the time. Earning money online is becoming increasingly popular, so I tried for almost a year to find online jobs or any other form of income, but I failed miserably. I tried everything I'd read about on blogs. For example, I recall a time in June of 2016 when I was about to give up on finding a job online when I discovered a bitcoin group on Facebook. Curious, I joined and began learning about bitcoin. It was at this point that I met a lot of people online who guided me through the process, and it is through them that I am now able to make money with bitcoin.

Very interesting for me how I discovered bitcoin. I used to search on internet that how to earn. I found many sites like paid to clicks, Clixsense, and many more like this. I see one thing that these sites has bitcoin payment deposit or withdrawal or referral purchase. Then I started from there and now reached Bitcointalk forn where we discuss everything about crypto industry or crypto related things.

This was the way my closest friend learned about cyrpto as well. It was a place he knew that was a fake and scam website, but he realized that they were doing legit few times then scam, legit few times and scam and that kept going in a random order.

So, he decided to enter it, bought some bitcoin from someone, put in 100 bucks, got out 300 bucks, next time he put 100 bucks again and made 220 bucks, next time he put 100 bucks again and it was gone. He did this a few more times and he ended it with about 350 bucks profit in total and 100 bucks of his initial investment so 450 bucks.

Rest was just his crypto history and he bought a car and a good computer (very expensive one with like 3090 and all that) from that 100 bucks, took him 5 years to do that though . It's never quickly get rich story.

So many people have heard about bitcoin but don't know what it means nor stands for in that case will you say they know about bitcoin? Using myself as an example, I heard about bitcoin since 2017 by my friend who was into it but I didn't border to know what it was all about till 2019 when he has made a lot of money through bitcoin.

When you tell that alot of people don't know about bitcoin at this present time, i dont think i will believe it, because since the origin of internet it has made everything possible to know, Bitcoin has stayed up to thirteen years since it introduction but yet people don't know about bitcoin, this information is sounding foreign to me, since you have fine way here you can learn about bitcoin here and especially this section

I don't remember exactly what year I was surfing the web to see if there was anything I could do online I happened to see an advertisement for an investment channel that makes daily profits. I later learned its name is HYIP, most HYIP sites accept deposits WebMoney, perfect money and accept bitcoin. My bitcoin journey started here, I started searching for the bitcoin keyword and later I also joined many bitcoin ponzi investment channels. And you know the result then...

I discovered Bitcoin listening to a random news report, years ago, back during its first big rally in 2017, I think? The media was absolutely saturated with talk about it, and I got curious about what that was, how it worked and so on. I didn't trade it back then though, it already seemed to high to me to be buying it.

I discovered bitcoin only recently seeing a news program on the Russian / Ukrainian war and it immediately intrigued and passionate me, i want to know a lot more, i'm here to learn

Someone do introduce it to me on the time that he had asked out for some Bitcoin payment and i was curious on that time and thats the reason i do make out some in depth research about it
and able to find out to be interesting  and thanks to that on where i had able to engage out on this market which did really put out lots of opportunities for me to earn even more than
with my current job until now.Im thankful that this one did really at least put me into a situation on where finances isnt really that much of a problem.

How I got to know about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general is kinda funny to me each time I remember, below is how it all played out.

I can't remember exactly when it was but I think it was in late 2015, there came this ponzi scheme popularly known as MMM at the time, it grew and become very popular in my country to the extend that almost every one on the street and corners of the country was into MMM, each country mostly in Africa and Asia had their own version of MMM, and there was also a global version which was referred to as MMM united.
The difference was that local MMMs pay users in their local currencies while MMM united which was the global version paid users in bitcoin and Ethereum.
Being from Nigeria, I was introduced to MMM Nigeria by @dalemat, by then, he was one of the leaders in MMM Nigeria due to having many referrals, so he had his own community on telegram, MMM Nigeria was paying members 30 percent monthly, but along the line, our then boss, @dalemat introduced us to MMM united which was paying 100 percent monthly in bitcoin and Ethereum, I signed up on MMM united and that was how my research about what bitcoin is began.

It didn't take long before MMM crashed in 2016, I and everyone else lost good amount of money, then our boss, @dalemat introduced a new crypto currency called Kuwait coin to us, the coin was in its ICO then, and it might be worthy of note that Kuwait coin was the reason I signed up on this great forum, I and every one else from dalemat's community invested in Kuwait coin but it ended up being a scam, we all lost our money including our boss, dalemat. Before Kuwait coin decide to run away with investors money, I've gotten familiar with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies available back then, so after the scam, dalemat then introduced us to day trading on poloniex exchange.

This was how I began my bitcoin/crypto journey and till date, am still here.

I have discovered it via checking weird forums back in the day. I was interested in making money online, and I was looking at places that allowed people to make money by solving captcha, or other methods, and it would pay peanuts as well so it was really hard to send that money via paypal or any other method since it was so little.

I saw an offer that said they are willing to pay with bitcoin and then the limit would be zero, that way you could earn 2 bucks and would still be able to withdraw. These type of jobs usually had like 50-100 dollars withdraw minimum so that most people would work a bit and leave. So seeing that, I checked bitcoin and found this forum and rest is history. This happened about 7-8 years ago.

A bitcoin account? Everyone does have the same thought if we knew bitcoin at the beginning and early days. But that's it, we have to move on and deal with its current state that it got a higher price now compared to years ago.
Where are we during those times in the past? We didn't give importance to it because the value was little and it's not yet that popular. That's common and people weren't curious back then, only a few.

I first met and discover bitcoin way back 2017, I remember this was the year where bounty hunters are really earning great profit and I've been participating actively at it. This is also the time where I didn't expect that earning online is possible and this was also the time I can't fully decide to invest fully because this time it was questioned and somehow accused as scam. But even though I have some hesitation at that time I am still an active crypto user since then.

Bitcoin news have come down well, Bitcoin is currency that everyone knows about it, if i have forgot how i notice what is bitcoin but i remember that somebody told me about bitcoin,  and that time the news is not as open as it is this time, and i started to check for it for internet, today Bitcoin is asset which everyone is ready to work towards it.

That’s right. A lot of people in my country thought that cryptocurrency was another Ponzi scheme. Ponzi scheme is one of the scams that has trended in my country and it made a lot of people start being scared of investment. every little thing they see they always think that it is another Ponzi scheme and it has made people to distrust every sort of investment that there is.

So, when Bitcoin was still new and a lot of people were still getting to know what it is all about, they thought that it is something that also relates to Ponzi scheme. But after the started to see that Bitcoin has lasted for a long time and despite everything it continues to stay strong, now they are all starting to believe in it.

Almost everyone knows about Bitcoin these days. If you make use of social media or you go outside there is the possibility that you are going to hear someone talk about crypto currency or especially on social media. I got to know about cryptocurrency through Twitter. There are times that crypto currency usually trend especially when the price becomes bullish.

You would always see it trending on social media twitter and a lot of people would be talking about it. That was how I really got to know about it, though I also had to do my own research to have a full understanding on what it is really all about. I never really needed anybody’s support because there were lots of helpful articles that I could find online which helped me to create my own wallet and startup investment in cryptocurrency.

In a bid to earn extra income online that was how I discovered bitcoin that was early 2017, I worked by filling mrai which would be sold by our manager in this forum then, our manager paid us according to numbers of captcher we filled daily, I opened a blockchain wallet where all
my calculated daily earnings was paid into, it's was quite an interesting time, I learnt so many things about bitcoin with regards to how it is being transacted from a sender to a receiver or a buyer to a seller vise versa, I remembered all those time with nostalgia.

I think it was in May 2016 when its price was at $500 that I saw a post on Twitter that talked about bitcoin and a good opportunity to invest in it. The publication struck me as very fantastic in addition to using a technology that I did not know. At that time I was looking for information on how to create a PayPal account to receive money from abroad and if I had investigated more about bitcoin, I would be telling another story.

I don't either quite remember exactly when or how I discovered Bitcoin. But I am almost more than sure it had something to do more with seeing advice from 4chan on how to buy illicit substances on the newly formed darkweb. Of course I immediately became curious as to how exactly criminials could anonymously send each other money over the internet and law enforcement being completely helpless to stop them.

The idea of such a powerful anonymous monetary system that was completely out of any governments control was very interesting to me. So I studied it, learned more and more and now here I am with you guys.