When and how did you discover Bitcoin? - page 7.

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I got introduced by a friend who really didn't care much for Bitcoin just treated it like a novelty worth discussing. I went home and started doing research and at first wanted to mine, then I wanted to invest in cloud mining, we all know how that went... Wink

Later I started trading, altcoins first, then Bitcoin, then after some time I came to understand how it all works and saw the benefits of holding.

We are all thrown into this space and try to make sense of it, but it takes time. If your first thought after joining the space was to buy and hold bitcoin, you are among the lucky ones who used a shortcut while the rest of us had to run a whole marathon.

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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on December 22, 2021, 01:56:37 PM

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So how about you, when and how did you discover bitcoin? What were your initial thoughts? Did you think negatively of it at first discovery and change your mind, or did you always think it was a great idea?

As far as I remember there has been a topic like this but it's been sunk for a long time...

my friend who introduced Bitcoin to me, at first I felt it was just a hoax and it couldn't be big but he kept trying to change my thinking about Bitcoin and thank God until now I still really love bitcoin. Fear and doubt of course arise for someone who is hearing bitcoin for the first time, for those who want to introduce it to friends or relatives, don't give up.

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The first time I heard about bitcoin was on CNBC TV in 2013, at that time the price of bitcoin reached more than $ 1000 and it became a hot topic on CNBC and almost every day always reported about the bitcoin phenomenon, unfortunately I didn't invest in bitcoin because CNBC also reported that many countries were against it. bitcoin because it is considered to be competing with fiat.

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I heard about bitcoin around 2015 from my friend but I didn't really understand what it was all about, what always comes to mind is maybe it one of the ponzi scheme because then that was the time ponzi was all over the corner. It was till 2019 I came to understand the real definition of bitcoin because of some persons that was around me who are into Bitcoin. Since then I embraced bitcoin fully and I see bitcoin as part of me.

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Quote from: vapourminer on March 12, 2022, 06:05:31 PM

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

that means if you mined a lot and saved or had saved from that time until today then you would be another rich guy, in my case I entered this world in 2016 when the price was 500$, time really passed fast and price it has increased a lot since 2016. they are good, unforgettable memories.

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Bitcoin is been notice to people differently and i believe most people will notice through Facebook and particularly the time of airdrop when bitcoin was not officially know by people, but now Bitcoin is known through the investment people run and make profit, so the profit is what spread the news of bitcoin everywhere, but from me i notice what is bitcoin through internet and that period i was wondering what is bitcoin until i made a research over bitcoin and confirmed it's a currency and it is a digital asset like Gold, then i began to develop much interest to know about it, and today Bitcoin is like what stand me today

youtube channels are the biggest promoters of cryptocurrencies in my opinion, channels with many followers are talking about bitcoin, altcoin and many things about the cryptocurrency market

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Quote from: GiftedMAN on March 16, 2022, 06:12:55 PM

Quote from: vapourminer on March 12, 2022, 06:05:31 PM

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

Even though its a bit late then you might have able to make big money or profits when you have just believe into your girlfriend just like also in my situation on which
my friend told me into those years too on which i had just ignored him because i do have impression that it might be some another sort of scam existing online
which i didnt really pay up too much attention where it do results out on regretting and having some stress but well its really just right to move on
and go ahead on the current situation since its not too late afterall.

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Quote from: vapourminer on March 12, 2022, 06:05:31 PM

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

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Quote from: Flexystar on March 13, 2022, 02:36:52 PM

This was mostly when my work colleagues used to chatter about it a lot. So this was during the period 2013-14 when all this happened. Though I had some idea from the forum in earlier days but it was merely an on off situation for me and would just read it as casus fun thing. But things for me started kicking off when I heard it from my work colleagues and the way they started about it was just jaw dropping for me. You know the period when bitcoin first hiked a lot and shit like that. So this got me into crypto and then rest is just story everywhere.

Mine was also through a colleague in the office that I was working in. The colleague that told me about Bitcoin was a very close friend of mine and we were both interested in working online as a means of getting side income. He told me about Bitcoin and how he has been investing in it for some time, and I picked interest immediately and started investing in it as well, after I read about it and it seemed quite interesting to me.

And apart from the fact that it is a good investment, another thing that also attracted me was that I can use it for transaction to anywhere in the world, and it sort of made things easier for me, seemed like a cool technology. Bitcoin is really useful in so many ways.

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This was mostly when my work colleagues used to chatter about it a lot. So this was during the period 2013-14 when all this happened. Though I had some idea from the forum in earlier days but it was merely an on off situation for me and would just read it as casus fun thing. But things for me started kicking off when I heard it from my work colleagues and the way they started about it was just jaw dropping for me. You know the period when bitcoin first hiked a lot and shit like that. So this got me into crypto and then rest is just story everywhere.

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Hmmmm is a nice question,l hear about bitcoin just 2019 but before then people already have an inside knowledge on bitcoin investment, however an still learning more on bitcoin an l believe as time go on l will discover the secret of bitcoin

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on December 22, 2021, 01:56:37 PM

So how about you, when and how did you discover bitcoin? What were your initial thoughts? Did you think negatively of it at first discovery and change your mind, or did you always think it was a great idea?

I found out about Bitcoin around 2017 when it is in the bullish season from one of my friends. He has a community and he taught me about this. After that, I came to learn more about Bitcoin and also cryptocurrencies.
Stared from the beginning, I never thought negatively about Bitcoin, never thought that Bitcoin is a scam or whatever like what people said at that time. Because, I saw the success of my friend because of crypto, moreover Bitcoin. I was really admired for his successfulness, he could really change his life with Bitcoin, seem like being rich after being involved in the crypto world.
Yeah, I admitted that at the first, I was interested in Bitcoin because I also wanted to be rich soon like him. But in fact, it was not as easy as I thought, almost gave up, but finally, I could continue in the crypto world step by step, evaluating and also improving all thing that I could do in the crypto world. Learning for trading, investment, and also other things, inclduing in this forum.
There are many experiences to take from the past, yes, of coruse, it's true. Successfullness will not come in instant ways.

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Quote from: ReiMomo on March 12, 2022, 03:27:14 PM

I was speaking with my friend who knows it very well. I asked for an online job where I can earn some. It was 2016. He introduced me bitcointalk.org and yes. Those were the days when Bitcoin was around $350 to $500. We were given 0.04btc for a post if i remember it correctly. We earned more and I thank my friend. Just imagining what if I have held all the btc i earned. Obviously who came in here much earlier must be thinking such.

Same situation honestly on which i've been finding out some jobs online and my friend do told me about this forum on which it did really open up the opportunity on earning more.
I do have that same thoughts that what if i do able to make to save all of those coins until now then i might really be that millionaire here on my country on just
doing signature campaigns. Cheesy

but sadly i would really need to cash out those earnings since i do really need to do so for me to survive on daily basis but i didnt have any regrets though and im still
thankful on what i do able to achieve now.

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Quote from: ReiMomo on March 12, 2022, 03:27:14 PM

I was speaking with my friend who knows it very well. I asked for an online job where I can earn some. It was 2016. He introduced me bitcointalk.org and yes. Those were the days when Bitcoin was around $350 to $500. We were given 0.04btc for a post if i remember it correctly. We earned more and I thank my friend. Just imagining what if I have held all the btc i earned. Obviously who came in here much earlier must be thinking such.

Glorious day bro, Cheesy

I was joined a year later than you, you had gotten 0.04BTC/post right? that means near around 1 BTC weekly?? Shocked

very lucrative sum, I just wanna ask did you ever check those old wallets recently? I hope you may get some hidden treasures from one of them.

When I have checked my old ETH wallet recently, I find out some coins with good market value. most probably those coins came from airdrops that I didn't notice at that time, or I didn't sell at that time because of low market value. But, last year when I sold them got a handsome amount of money.

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I was speaking with my friend who knows it very well. I asked for an online job where I can earn some. It was 2016. He introduced me bitcointalk.org and yes. Those were the days when Bitcoin was around $350 to $500. We were given 0.04btc for a post if i remember it correctly. We earned more and I thank my friend. Just imagining what if I have held all the btc i earned. Obviously who came in here much earlier must be thinking such.

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Firstly, I worked on different faucet and ptc sites. Though earning was tiny and I used to recharge my mobile. I think the year was 2016 and day by day I knew bitcoin very well. After entering on Bitcointalk from a Facebook group, it has changed my life.

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I have always been interested in additional earnings, and suddenly I came across a miner blogger, watched all his videos on the topic of 'bitcoin' and I liked it, began to study deeper and that's how I got to know bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.Now it's my hobby.

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I was just really curious about how money can only exist on the Internet... And so I started my search 5 years ago

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Quote from: Peanutswar on December 29, 2021, 12:21:38 PM

It's the year 2016 and most of my friends know about bitcoin itself and I just ignore it because I'm just a student at that time there's no budget after my curiosity how the get some money i tried to make research and then try to read and also I come up with this forum I didn't create an account just to read some things related to the things i need to my knowledge after than i tried to keep my self on track because its an investment and there's a chance might help me financially.

I also come to know about bitcoin in 2015/16 but sadly did not invest in bitcoin at that time when bitcoin was so much cheap. I remember it was under 300$ and from there i saw it going to 19800$ in matter of an year or so. I would call it my biggest regret of not making good investment in bitcoin at that time even though i had money for investment. Anyways, no one can change the past now. Sad

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When I was new to forum, I had come across bitcoin news with my friend circle. Then I had found this forum.With parallel, I had invested certain part of money in bitcoin. But in two years I had sold nearly 4 bitcoin.Even still now, I was worry about that incident.Because if I had that 4 bitcoin. It's enough for one to live a happy life now.Now with a certain year interval, the price of bitcoin was increased to huge value. So we can get huge profit from it.

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