Topic: When Did You Meet Bitcoin? (Read 160 times)

I have been hearing about bitcoin since 2018 but I didn’t really took it serious that much. The place I come from, when someone wants to introduce something to you online, it is always termed scam, so we were very careful on what we will put our mind into and start with.

Not until after 2020 after coronavirus that I was reintroduced into it and found out about this forum in early 2021. It has been an amazing journey and experience with the knowledge I have acquired so far about bitcoin. I always wished I had joined earlier, but sometimes I feel it wasn’t the right time for me to join and I actually joined at the right time now. Hoping to continue benefiting and keep enlightening others about bitcoin as time goes on.

I was introduced to bitcoin back in 2014 by a good friend of mine, He was working on this forum and after few years in 2014 we were sitting in a university he told me about this forum and told me to work in bounty section of this forum.

A story sharing thread, it's not new to me but as per OP's story I would say I was first introduced to Bitcoin by a friend while discussing the market value of different assets, it was quite interesting to me so randomly in front of my father I talked about it and after that, my father guided me as far he knew all that.

I took my entry around 2019 full-time entry as a Bitcoiner, in the crypto space I was exploring in learning mode only from 2018 and was trying to figure out how I manage my pocket money hehe, anyway id don't regret even joining in 2019, I've done good so far and hoping for the best in the coming 5 years with my accumulation as well.

I've seen the price from $3800 to $4500 while actively sticking to the market, but crypto became my full-time life after 2021's end and now I'm quite regular in this Ocean and hoping to be in a coming era as well.


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It really such an interesting story,  and everyone here will agree with me that we have all hard blame games being played in our heads not listening and addressing something that would be a great benefit to us such as Bitcoin and that should become the basis at which we build our trust and confidence on that Bitcoin would never fail to meet our expectations as individuals holders.


Now that you have finally realized that Bitcoin is a great store of value, it then means that adopting into it at frequent holding in percentage format will go a long way to making sure that you won't regret it more in the future not buying Bitcoin as much as you can at the present price.

I was introduced to Bitcoin in 2016. I came to know about Bitcoin from a friend of mine. He said that Bitcoin is a digital currency that uses cryptography to secure transactions and prevent double spending. I was fascinated by the idea of ​​a peer-to-peer network that did not rely on any central authority or intermediary. I decided to buy some bitcoins in 2017, when the price was around $1,000. According to web search results, the price of Bitcoin in 2014 ranged from $340 to $1,0001. Bitcoin price in 2021 reached a peak of $68,991 on October 1

You were introduce to Bitcoin at 2014 as you say but you weren't interested only to buy it in 2021. I am just curious to know what made you decide to buy Bitcoin in 2021, because there was a bull run in 2017 when Bitcoin reached and all time high I would have thought you might have preferred to have bought then.

To me I never saw Bitcoin as an investment opportunities thanks to the person that introduced me to Bitcoin and I wasn't all too concerned about the price of Bitcoin then. I was fascinated by the possibilities Bitcoin has over the traditional financial system and I think this mentality would give you more understanding and longevity in Bitcoin.

I guess almost everybody have the same story as mine lol A friend of mine introduced bitcoin when we are just high school, I'm on twenties now not so old not so young, that time I don't really have a money to invest or to try it on my own so I basically ignored it, I remember calling him like a "weirdo" coz who believes on internet money that time ha! But it turned out to be the way, when I saw him earning and keep telling us to join I gave it a shot, earned a lot of money, did the same thing to my friends and they called me "smart ass" for believing, then started chatting me on social media when I post something on my stories/reels " how do you do it bro", "Do you have a job?" some kind of messages and I'd just ignore them. The coin is circle my men.  

I met Bitcoin in 2019 when Ethereum was trending then curiosity caught the cat. I saw people talking about BTC I was wondering what that was. Took my phone immediately and started searching for it

I know this is common thing to say by everyone that they missed the train at the right time, menh I bet you even though you were given the chances to buy at then you could have sold by now because I believe there were people who had the opportunity to buy at then and they did bought. But guess what?

I can tell you that none of those people who had that chance to buy at then were holders till date, believe me or not most holders are of recent lemme say from 2019 or 2021 dip.

This made me not to pay attention to anyone who come here lamenting on how they missed the train if they had the chances of filling up their bags. I will still tell you that you don't miss yet, there are more chances for you to bag more because judging from how the bitcoin halving works we can still say that we will experience more price surge come 2024 and the possibility for pice increase is about 75 percent so you can buy and hold.

There are many threads already that are having similar topic or question like yours OP.

But I started to know a bit about Bitcoin in early 2014. I only knew it as like any other stock in the market as what I have understood back then. I was a struggling freelancer during that time which I am financially broke and income isn’t stable that time.

I thought back then that I should be buying 1 BTC, but I didn’t know that I can buy in fractions (satoshis) in which I have lack of education and understanding how Bitcoin works. It was just above $600 back then, but I cannot afford due to being broke.

I ignored it for 3 1/2 years as I am focused on my work at home freelancing gigs and network marketing. I got into BTC again when it touched down $10k for the first time and that got me thinking on what if I did spare at least a few dollars to buy fractions of BTC back in 2014.

Until now, I still regretted my decision back then of not buying but it is what it is.

Same to you somewhere around 2014-2015 when Bitcoin faucet and Ponzi is very popular. My classmate on college introduced to Bitcoin mining which is through cloud mining that turns into scam. Luckily, I only invest Bitcoin from my faucet earnings and the amount is not that huge so I easily get over to that scam.

Despite my rough start on Bitcoin. I still manage to accumulate decent amount of Bitcoin through the use of faucet and paid to click sites even it’s just micro amount in fiat that time. My mother discouraged me to continue doing it because I’m wasting energy that time to run my computer just to earn small amount in fiat. My patience work when Bitcoin price first hit around 10K while I earn my Bitcoin when the price is still below 100$ each.

First instance (before 2014?): I was trying to find ways to earn money online (lol) and stumbled upon bitcoin mining. Didn't make crap mining on my crappy laptop so just quitted immediately.

Second instance: The Bitfinex hack was all over Reddit, so I finally took a deep dive on what this Bitcoin thing is; and the rest is history!

You know, dude, what you did was demonstrate that this subject had been posed on this forum many times before. Your question is extremely typical; perhaps the following time you create a subject, there will be more sharing of knowledge with other communities on the forum site. I'm not saying your query is illogical.

It's only that the newcomers who came here before you and joined the forum have already talked about it. Don't get upset or take it personally. Consider this to be a new thought or piece of information; I'm only trying to help you develop in the long run.

My bitcoin journey is far behind. I think I have been here for 2-3 years. But I heard the name of BITCOIN a long time ago but no one helped me to come here. Later, when I tried hard, I created a Bitcointalk account myself. But it was too late for my trouble. I wanted to know about this bitcoin earlier and come here.

Would you like to see some forum users talk about the first time they heard of or bought bitcoin?

You can refer to this interview thread as many have done interviews and there you will see how familiar they are with bitcoin.
I don't think this thread is too important to ask when to meet bitcoin they have their own way and have their own capital to do it, there is no need to reveal it, if you want to know the truth then ask your friends who know bitcoin.

Well, that must be so regretful, but what we can do now, what happens is for good. I mean, the hack of MT GOX occurred in 2014 and you might become a victim of it, but you were saved, and of course, there could be many other possibilities like, you might be a billionaire now (depending on your investment). Well, overall, it is really sad, because, that time was a golden time.

A few days back I was thinking the same, but I was thinking about 2009, like where I was in 2009 and what I was doing, then after remembering so much, I came to realize that I came to get access to the internet around 2013 or 2015 maybe. Not so sure, but in 2009 I was too young. Even I even talked to my cousin who used to be a software engineer, and he must have access to BTC, he said he with his friend made many BTC but now we don't know where those BTC went, and we don't have access to the drives and even did not kept the seed phrase save.

Talking about my story, I came to know about BTC in 2018 when I got access to the internet, I joined so many online faucets and mining platforms, but made nothing, and after wasting around 2 months I left it by saying we could not earn BTC, unless we have some fan following. The rate of BTC at that time in local currency was around 8 Lac but now it is more than 80 lac.

Mate, I think the forum has a couple few of this particular kind of thread but maybe with a different name but the whole context of people actually stating when and how they eventually got an encounter with Bitcoin.HERE. and I know I have seen a couple more of this particular type of post and I know you are wnew and stuff but using the search button would help you out alot in terms of making post

I was introduced to Bitcoin in 2014, a friend of mine told me about Bitcoin, believe me, it didn't sound like a smart thing to my ears, I wish I had listened to my friend, I would have bought it in 2014. Unfortunately, I got to know it late and decided to buy Bitcoin in 2021. When Did You Meet Bitcoin? how much was the price ?