Topic: ~~~When did you first heard about bitcoin 2024 Halving edition~~ (Read 287 times)

Based on the true facts, no one introduced me to bitcoin itself, but someone introduced me to bitcoin talk, so I was busy gathering all my information about bitcoin since after an ad that I saw in the social media, I got interested in it, so I just concluded to go on research if I could get some relevant information that will help me understand more before I invest, which in the process I understand some things and then meet a friend that explains something about the forum, which after I came to the forum I just saw that all the information that I need I can easily find it here.
 
So apparently I will say I started holding bitcoin around June 2023, some months before I joined the forum, which after I joined, I understood that I had made a great decision to invest, but about halving, I have never withness halving before, but I know many things about it because I studied a lot about it. 

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That is why it is being said that knowledge is the key and literacy is a disease because, without research and mature understanding in taking risks, you will not have believed in your online friends, because without them introducing bitcoin to you, it will be very hard for you to even know about bitcoin and understand it to the extent that you have to leave the Ponzi scheme and others, which you achieve because of your understanding and trust in some certain risk to put on your money to buy some bitcoin at that time. And to me, you have really taken a great risk on investment, and after that, you got to know about bitcoin because if it is me, I have to take more time understanding it because I invest because I put high considerations into taking a risk. 

Probably back when the time that I've registered in 2016, that's a foreign concept to me, reduction in rewards resulting in more value but then I got to experience it and it was definitely something to look at, although it's just another for everyone, it was a monumental milestone for bitcoin because it means that there's only so few bitcoins left to mine in the world. In regards to halving for 2024, I don't think that you're a real person in bitcoin space if you haven't heard of halving for this year because everyone's talking about it and there's no way that you can miss that even if you're not up to date because there's a set date that a halving would happen so I don't get your question because as I've said before, no way to miss this event.

The halving of bitcoin is indeed a dirty little trick hiding in the source code.

The bitcoin white paper misleads:

"The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins..."

I learned about this later as far as I re-call 2014 ? analyzed it in 2011 maybe I knew in 2011 probably but not sure

see the last file.
https://imgur.com/a/Fn17I3q

Forgot to save the wallet.dat file on dvd.

Like you, I knew this crypto market in 2016, right after the Halving took place, but things were still quite vague. At that time, the crypto market had become famous when the Lending wave became strong and brought great profits to early investors. It's a pity that at that time I didn't believe in the future of BTC, I thought that new blockchains with more modern technology and smart contracts could replace BTC. I used BTC to participate in a few ICOs and had unpleasant experiences.

Time flies by so fast, we are about to welcome another halving. New BTC is still being generated every day, but the BTC balance in my account has never been as large as it was in 2016. I hope that in this uptrend I will not miss the opportunity with BTC.

Don't let this thread die so soon. Vote!

2021, Although the history of Bitcoin is very old, but in my case, the history of Bitcoin is not old, but in the middle of 2021, I thought of investing in Bitcoin for the first time. Although I was brand new to Bitcoin world in 2020 but my interest was very high so I started my first investment by investing 100 dollars in my private tutoring in Bitcoin. Now Bitcoin is so popular that most of the people in the world care about this virtual currency and they are ready to make the standard of rich people of the world mainly based on Bitcoin. Most of the world's richest investors are investing mainly in Bitcoin.

First heard bitcoin on 2016, where most newbies where fond of using faucets, cloud minings lol and typical bitcoin doubler like ponzis. Well there are lots of them and high paying faucets. I remember i can earn 0.02 btc just for faucets for 3-5 days. It was a gold old days earning and stacking bitcoins.

I entered the world of crypto at the end of 2015, from the beginning I knew about crypto until 2021 I didn't know when and what halving was, but in 2024 I just learned the meaning of halving and the predictions that it would happen,
maybe for this session I missed the opportunity, to have a lot of BTC in my wallet, if I have a long life in the next halving session I will be more active and deeper in learning about bitcoin,

I don't recall when I first heard about Bitcoin, maybe 2014 or before, but I started getting interested and joined the wave in 2015.. When I started, I wasn't able to mine or buy Bitcoin so started with faucets and games until I started growing my earning with some constant spending, things worked well but not that top.
If I joined earlier I would definitely mine but with asics and sophisticated machines things went out of control for me.

I first heard about it in 2012 IIRC, but I was never interested. Then in 2013 I saw this forum, but it gave me an error when I signed up and I didn't bother anymore. A year later, when a friend told me about it, I signed up again. Even though we believed in Bitcoin back then, there was always a question mark. There were a lot of uncertainties such as what if governments put big obstacles to it, what if we cannot buy and sell, what if the coins we have goes to zero. Because of those fears, I couldn't keep my coins as long as I thought. Learning Bitcoin very early doesn't automatically make you rich. Even if you really believe in it, circumstances may force you to sell your coins. There is no need to regret this.

I was introduced to Bitcoin in 2015 or 2016, which I can't recall exactly. At the beginning of the revnshare, I had invested in some ponzi in fiat money, like perfect money, etc. But I swear, I wasn't aware of what ponzi is or how it works. Some of my online friends encouraged me to invest, and thanks to them, they introduced Bitcoin as well. During the investment, there was also Bitcoin, so I bought some Bitcoin and invested there. That's how I became a Bitcoin investor, trader, and marketer. When I realised what a Ponzi scheme was and that they were just scammers, I left everything and started working against them. So still, I am involved with Bitcoin and trading. 

That's right. If you don't hold on to yourself tight, you will jump into the crypto market excitedly out of FOMO by beginning to invest wrongly into shitcoins because of the spike in price.

Currently, the crypto market is on a moving train and so many coins are on the same moving train with bitcoin. if care is not taken to all this, someone will be caught up with the market wrongly, with the hope that they have found a breakthrough by investing excessively in shitcoin, not on bitcoin because of how expensive bitcoin currently is.

While everyone is anticipating the halving time with great excitement, let them not forget to set a target price for when they should sell some of your bitcoin holdings because if anyone misses selling when others are selling, he or she shouldn't hold anyone responsible when the bull run is over, because nobody told them not to withdraw their profits and they gat to be patient enough to hodl through the next halving that will give rise to the bull run in months, for them to get back on profits.

lol,started hearing about bitcoin when I was in Nysc 2021 from a friend which we stay together where we serving together and it sounded strange because I was new to the crypto space and bitcoin.so but with research.i understand it learning is everyday of someone life.

But at least you will feel how to get through the halving which will be 1 month away with some Bitcoin that you hold.
I don't even own enough Bitcoin assets, but I'm looking forward to this halving and the effects of the halving will provide a good opportunity for the crypto space in the future.

I have even passed the 3rd Halving by owning about 2–3 Bitcoins and once felt how extraordinary profits I got.
It's not bad to be a Bitcoin holder when you already believe and are waiting for Bull run to arrive.

Keep holding the Bitcoin you have and pass the halving, you will find where the actual target you want to achieve.

Great stories!. Lets hope more of lurkers reply!

Op nice work and the explanation nod bitcoin from the YouTube video is good for everyone and children can be using it or learning bitcoin since it is cartoon. And as for me I started noticing the concept and the Blockchain from 2015 in a seminar but as for then I hadn't heard anything about halving and even I heard of it I wouldn't know or understand anything. And until I came to the forum in 2021 and in 2022 I started hearing the edition of bitcoin halving and also the All Time High as well. And this coming halving will be the first one I will see and experience.

After the halving then we all will be expecting the All Time High.

You're right, lovesmayfamilis - we had different paths to bitcoin. I may not really want to remember how I got here and became one of the bitcoin holders - but I cherish all my time with bitcoin after I invested in it. Of course this is the best thing I have come across from many investment assets – I mean bitcoin is more than just an investment asset.

I don't regret anything I've been through before - it wouldn't do any good if I didn't rush when I got to know him. Being a holder is something special for me even though the amount of assets I own may not make me a millionaire by the halving period in 2024. So yes - there is still room for improvement as long as we are willing to improve it.

Me too, bro. I also miss the time when I was clicking on the faucet captchas site to get some of Bitcoin Satoshi And I used to visit these faucet sites daily and spend hours clicking and earn a good profit from them. I used to use freeBitco.com for Bitcoin, which I think gave 800 to 1500 satoshi at the time. I wish if I had all those coins, I would have earned more profit. But anyway, it was my starting point, so I lost a lot and found a lot, and at the same time, I collected knowledge and gained more experience, which today proves my 90% decision was right. 
 
However, my journey also started with faucet sites and after that I started trading by using the same collection of faucet sites which was the first and hardest step of my life. But I was consistent, and finally I earned millions of dollars in my journey through crypto.

I am not experienced when it comes to the Bitcoin halving, but I have had good time already in Bitcoin, the best way to experience Bitcoin halving for the first time is being calm. The halving hasn't yet come but we have seen how the market this past weeks has been, even shit coins saw some rise in price.

The Bitcoin halving would still cause so many coins to spike up this is not a guarantee that those coins would be successful. The Bitcoin halving would cause many to move into crypto-currency even if they do not Believe in crypto. Everyone would be looking for fast gains. Watch out for FUD, FOMO, don't make panic buys or sell.

I have heard of bitcoin for years but only started investing and really got more focused only a few years ago. The pandemic has made a lot suffered and so the last halving which coincidentally happened during the time of pandemic. It was overall a bad time but it did teach some valuable lessons that I am now willing to apply as the next halving approaches.

It was 2014 when I first heard about Bitcoin. I used to look for ways to earn money online those days, and one of the days when I was surfing different websites through a Google search, I stumbled upon a Bitcoin faucet that was giving away satoshis for free every day, I was shocked to see that there is a currency that has a very high value, it was valued less than $500 at that time, I don't remember the exact price though.

That was my first impression of Bitcoin. After that, I started surfing different faucets and accumulate satoshis every day, from there onward, I started learning about Bitcoin and what it is, and I was very fascinated by the technology.

2014 but bought my first coins a year later. I was early enough for it to make a significantly positive impact on my life but not too early so it was cents per coin. Those uber early people, some of them have hardly anything, if any coins left. We are still early enough for new investors to do very well if they buy & HODL for years.

I'm the only one who voted for "2017" because that's the time where I started learning about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. September 2017 to be exact, and I guess it's a good thing that this forum has been introduced to me when I'm still learning because I learned many things here NGL.

Ohhh, I miss the times where I'm clicking those captchas back in 2017 and getting something like 100-1000 Satoshis if I remember correctly. I mean that amount every 5-15 minutes, and I'm doing it with multiple faucet sites. I'm asking myself "What if I withdrew those coins that I got from faucet sites and held it until now?" That's the biggest what if in my mind when it comes to faucet, but I really miss doing those captcha thing.

Sadly, the videos only got 50k views, and probably it's because YouTube in 2010 isn't as popular as it is right now, and when it became popular, that's not the video that they're watching, but these crypto influencers who are shilling new projects endlessly. I hate to say it but the platform has become a tool to spread misinformation.

That's a fun video, but i don't like the part where it say "Bitcoin transactions are free", we know how crazy the transaction fees can be, and we all have paid for each transaction.

Getting back into the topic, i read about Bitcoin in 2013, and i fell in love from the start, that same day i got some btc in a casino that had a nice chat lotto, you only had to be active in the chat and from time to time it used to ask for the user address to send a "rain"... the bitcoin price was lot at that moment, something like $300/btc. Those were crazy times.

2015 I already know about Bitcoin from social media on the internet, but I'm not sure about it. seeing the development of Bitcoin in the crypto market, it is starting to be widely discussed by those who are influential in my area and some of those I know have shown real results for me.

So, in 2017 I entered and studied more deeply, at that time Bitcoin was heading for its umpteenth halving, I saw extraordinary results for Bitcoin and finally I became a part of Bitcoin until now, I felt the halving in 2021 yesterday, 2024 is facing the umpteenth halving, I hope I don't fail again like what happened in 2017 when I first got to know it.

2016. But even then I didn't get the panic people were buying into. So new coins aren't going to be as plentiful. But when will it be small enough in supply that lil' ol' me won't be able to find 1 mbtc when I need it?

I guarantee it'll be as easy for me to go out and buy 1 BTC after April, or next year, or in 2030, as it will be today. I'll never run into a "sold out" trader.

(Happy to be proven wrong, price will salve my error).

I'm sure that your country has some form of dollar exchange if you couldn't find a way to buy bitcoin because there's no way that if it's a foreign currency at that time that Mt. Gox is going to get paid in that currency besides the dollar or other popular currency at that time, another thing is that if you've got Mt. Gox at that time then you'd probably be one of the suckers that would've had their bitcoins stolen. I think that you did just fine with your mining in 2012 but it feels bad to see what happened to that HDD and it's not really your fault that you've become serious about bitcoin in 2022, back then it's worthless or close to worthless and a lot of people aren't taking bitcoin seriously. I've heard bitcoin the same as the year that I've created this account or maybe a bit of a month earlier.

A frequently encountered topic, especially pressing before big events. I learned about Bitcoin early, almost after various kinds of faucets appeared, or payment in Bitcoin on sites where it was possible to receive payment in digital currency.
But not having the desire to understand the many zeros that seemed large, I did not pay any attention to Bitcoin. But as happens to everyone, we come to Bitcoin along different roads and at different times. Even now, seeing the regrets of some people for wasted time, there is still room to experience the feeling that you own what is limited in quantity.

Many people who is into this community today have their own thinking and also have a history when they know what is Bitcoin and they have reasons why they did not join Bitcoin but based on my own and how I know Bitcoin and then when I notice Bitcoin, I noticed Bitcoin since 2015 and since when I noticed bitcoin I have not fee reluctant towards Bitcoin immediately I research about Bitcoin and I started investing in Bitcoin as far back 2015 so many people then was criticizing bitcoin but today there are people who is embracing Bitcoin

Its been a while I've been hearing about bitcoin but there's no doubt that after the time i adopted this digital currency, this will be my first experience with halving within the system, there's much to talk about when it comes to halving as well as more to learn, because this is one of the most interesting season i which many investors have their focus on in other to realized up to their expectations.

This is also going to be my first halving experience and I am also highly expectant. It looks like the approval of Spot ETF by the SEC has made this halving a unique one with price predicted to go very high. I have read a lot about the halving but it seems there are slight variations in this present halving maybe because of the ETF.

This is going to be my first time experiencing the Bitcoin halving as a Bitcoin holder. I am super excited about it and looking forward to it's after effects. I have caught the Bitcoin halving fever.
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VOTE PLZ and join the fever!

This is how i mined back in 2012
bitminter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejiqbzqmxSE

Thank you for sharing this. I wonder why the video doesn't have a million views. Everything said about Bitcoin in the video still holds true today. Two of the statements said that I wish to note here are

• Since the invention of Bitcoin money has never been the same.
• The value of Bitcoin doesn't go down when the Fed decides to print more money.

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This is going to be my first time experiencing the Bitcoin halving as a Bitcoin holder. I am super excited about it and looking forward to it's after effects. I have caught the Bitcoin halving fever.

So we have around 1 month left for the 4th halving. Thought of creating a topic to gauge the bitcoin fever!
I first found out about BTC back in Q1 2011. I think i seriously got into it in May 2011. Dl'ed the core software on sep 30 2011.(blockchain size was around ~600mb). Got free BTC via bitcoin faucet 0.05.  Started mining in 2012 via bitminter(geforce 525m getting 12mhps). HDD crashed and i forgot until 2022 when i started serious devotion

Yeah Yeah i missed the bus even if it was in front of me. Had i lived in a country where Mt Gox supported my currency, it would have been another story.


OLDEST Bitcoin video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnM2shYIrM

I posted my first BTC in this forum
https://broadband.forum/threads/trading-in-cryptocurrency-in-india.49820/


bitcoin 0.4.0 software which i burned in 2011 nov
https://imgur.com/a/Fn17I3q
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