Topic: When did you learn about crypto, and how fast did you get comfortable with it? - page 2. (Read 229 times)

Little bit same as you. I heard about it from a stranger man in facebook. Later we had a good relation though. So first time I can easily can use the wallets. But yeah I had some Problem to understand this forum that time. First I create account and later log out due to I can not understand it correctly. And I became bored.

Then after few month I try again to give sometime here in this forum. And thus slowly bitcoin/crypto is known to me by this forum.

Five years ago when i use Facebook then i found some friend who work on crypto and also they are airdrop hunter. They said me about crypto currency and about Bitcoin.  Then i search about bitcoin on Google and read about this and i think it has very good for me that i joined with crypto-currency.          

Appreciate the honesty of selling your holdings during the ATH way back 2017. Many people in this industry will push the idea that holding is quite of a mandatory in your investments. But that's not really what is actually happening. Investors undergo different circumstances and it will be a gamble to just hold even if you are already needing money to suffice your daily needs especially if you don't have that much aside from your investments. Meaning, there will always be a time that will push you to sell, not merely because you want to. I've learned about this way back 2016, but focused late 2016. At first it will just bore you out but once you understand how do things work here, it is really interesting.

about 4 years ago, learned about the concept and also the bitcoin market, then started to enter this forum and join the bounty program. after running for 6 months, finally getting paid for the first time and so on. At that time I felt very comfortable working at home and there was also a positive side about economic knowledge, because learning the crypto market was tantamount to asset or economic analysis. but the last 2 years, the bounty was very difficult and the times were very gloomy, it made me a little disappointed because it didn't work out the way it started. but I will continue to fight because this is where I started and I have to fight for it.

surely everyone has had their own experience in the introduction of cryptocurrency. I know crypto (Bitcoin) in 2012 introduced by a friend to invest using bitcoin and at that time the price of bitcoin was $ 350. Until early 2016 I found the Bitcointalk forum and continued to explore various projects available in this forum while participating in various bounty campaigns available until now.

The COVID-19 pandemic has showcased the value of crypto and digital transformation and people should start to use this time when needed the most. My involvement in crypto started last year. Thanks to the persistence of one of my close friends. Since then, I have amassed a life-changing portfolio of various cryptos, most heavily invested in BTC and ETH. I maintain 60-70% of my holdings in them and trade amongst promising projects like DIVI with the remainder.

I've been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, remember the BTC peak at $1200, the DOGE hype.
Back then I got all my information from this very website, there weren't the same resources back then to acquire the knowledge needed to get involved. As a matter of fact, I first heard about BTC back in 2011, downloaded the wallet, but never truly understood how I would go about obtaining any BTC, so I just deleted the wallet again, and forgot about it.

Long story short, a friend of mine (who's mostly in stocks and real estate) asked me how to get started with crypto. He heard about it through the media and wanted to invest a few grand in BTC.

From a newbies point of view, it still feels kind of overwhelming to get started, which made me remember the good old days where I faced the exact same problem.

I started researching projects building the infrastructure to make crypto easy, obtainable, and straight forward to get started with, and came across the Divi project, which will allow straight Bank and Paypal transactions inside their wallet.
Pretty interesting, as it eliminates the need to start your journey on an exchange that requires all sorts of KYC documents etc. The process of trading X for Y on an exchange can be overwhelming as well.

So question I'm asking myself..
Have any of you guys been through the same, did you find it hard to get started with crypto?