Bitcoin Forum

Just want to see how people are getting involved with bitcoin and with how much, especially since bitcoin is getting a lot of attention from the media recently. I woudl also like to see how people are getting their bitcoin if they have limited knowledge about where/how to buy it.

i have zero bitcoin so far :D but i am working on getting some...

am i a newbie? i guess so... now i dont have too much bitcoin only about 0.1 and now i started to participate in a signature campaign i hope i will get paid for it

little bit more then  1 BTC , I know it's not that much but well since I never bought and they are only profit I feel good about it .
Planning to start a project this summer , hopefully it will make me earn some $ and buy Bitcoin with that ;D

When I was a newbie I had never owned over 0.01 BTC at any given time. At that time I was using faucets that pays only 50 to hundreds of satoshis (when the price was $600). I don't bought any bitcoins, and sell them either.
However when I started to involve here, I found that signature campaign is a lot more profitable than faucets. I'm earning 9 times 0.01 BTC last week from my signature campaign.

I just want to share my own personal experience when i was new in crypto world, i only rely on faucet in those days, im afraid to use my real money to buy bitcoins. Aside from faucet, i did get bitcoins from giveaways, faucets on dice sites. I stopped all of that when i came in this forum and have an oppurtunity to earn btc from signature campaigns

Im a newbie.

As of now I have 250k Satoshis plus another 100k in Faucetbox ( I set it to 150k threshold before sending it to my wallet). I earned all of this in my 2 days of fauceting (of course not the whole day , just a past time).

Of course this is low amount . This is for the meantime only. When I ranked up at least the next rank after newbie I'll join signature campaign and hoping my earnings will boost.

i have 0.001 bitcoin and i have earned it from using faucets.

0.0004 atm but hopefully will reach to 0.002 by doing faucets
and currently doing sign campaign too

should earn more next week ;D

See . Faucets are not that bad. I hate those people who are bullying faucets. We know its time consuming but this is for the meantime only. After that we can upgrade our ways of earning bitcoins.

claiming it non stop and earning 40 cents in a week you mean is ok? i really doubt that its better to do gambling when you receive first payments of faucet

A little over 1btc along with a few lite and doge.
newbie here, so there it goes.
You all talk about the same, signature campaigns.. I know nothing about that, can anyone highlight the essentials for me if possible ? :D very much appreciated

uhmm if you dont know anything about signature campaigns how did you manage to earn 1 bitcoin then? did you just buy it?

yes. in an exchange one month ago, more or less. (i am still positive, meaning i don't regret it.. still..)

i was looking for answers from newbies and junior members, but of course answers from anyone are welcomed, thats what this forum is for. I just want to see how involved people are getting in bitcoin and to what extent.

why do you want to know?

not really anything specific; i just put this out as a way to see how people new to bitcoin are getting involved. im also curious to see how newbies are getting their first coin besides faucets and signature campaigns; mostly just to satisfy my curiosity and anyone else's if theyre interested.

Ok please answer me clearly .

-You have no resources to buy bitcoin
-You have no skill to offered to be paid by bitcoin
-You have no digital goods to offered
-You didnt know the bitcointalk forum

As in zero..zero option..

Where you will get bitcoin "FOR THE MEANTIME" I WILL REPEAT "FOR THE MEANTIME".

Before making a paid post count please read post carefully. You are one of the sig campain posters that just increasing post without truly understanding what you replying for.

I will quote my last post :


I said for the meantime. Not forever.

If you will suggest me to try sig campaign for newbies I dont like. I will try it next time when I upgrade my rank because I dont like signature campaign for newbies for my own reason and besides Im enjoying posting here with all my heart not like you that only posting for BITCOIN.

Im not good at English. Hope you get my point.

Another topic asking people how much bitcoin people has?

I would be careful to answer, there are always scammers looking for newbies that might not know fully how protect their bitcoins.

i have plenty of my own coin; I started this thread to satisfy my curiosity. no need to start pointing fingers. mostly curious about how people enter the crypto world.

I started with alts... LTC and DOGE mining with my Mac.  My very first BTC transaction was a purchase of 0.1BTC.  I've obtained quite a bit since then through mining, purchases and services.

In the UK we have a place named Cex that pay you for your old dvds, cds, games, phones, etc. I assume most people on here have at least some old crap they can get rid of via similar means or Ebay or the local newspaper.

Declutter and suddenly you've just saved yourself several months of clicking with your eyes hanging out of your head.

If you're in a country with no exchange, no buying service and no localbitcoins activity then I can see why people would do it but otherwise they really should place more value on their time.

it is not dumb to have some LTC  ;)  (but forget about all other alts...)

LTC just had a huge jump in price, but doge did too, maybe you shouldnt disregard all the other alts  ;)

most of the price jumps are only because of pumps, i dont think that its worth investing in it too because the price can fall really fast

Since mining is hard now, the best option to get BTC is by trading.

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Check out some nice faucets, perhaps those in my signature, they pay alot i promise.

I havent saw any other means of earning bitcoin other then faucets!  :)

i was thinking about getting into trading at some point; how much are you making monthly with how much capital? also, any good resources to recommend to start reading up on trading?

I got about a few dollars in my wallet. This is mainly from trading, gambling winnings and mining profits. I'm putting together my portfolio and start offering my skills in exchange for bitcoin (IE getting a job).

you might want to consider selling your signature space to a site as well; there are several sites that pay quite well for junior members, take a look at this thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

doge is and was always a joke. Litecoin and maybe Namecoin are okay and have some value.

Can I talk about the time WHEN I was a newbie?

First few days I was just posting on coinchat.org (before TF went rouge) and made a couple bitcents.  After that I started purchasing bitcoins with paypal (the second week) and bought a couple of bitcoin.  Bitcoin was only ~$70 at the time.

Agree with you, faucet is not really bad, although is wasted time. Honestly when i know bitcoin for the first time, i just earn from faucet, until i found another way for earn btc, through trading, doing small task, join sig campaign and more. Time goes by you will find your passion, just doing your passion you will not regret anything.


~iki

It was (and is), but I found the community to be mostly pleasant and it was a nice way to get into crypto.  The vast majority of the coins I mined, I sent towards the charitable projects they are always running.  For example, there was some "get water to some poor African village" thing that I donated to early last year.  Also, they had a DOGE NASCAR... that was a pretty fun thing to send coin to as well (although I'm not a NASCAR fan by any stretch of the imagination, I thought it was funny to see DOGE sponsoring the car).

I've long since stopped mining the alts... even at the end of 2013 and early 2014 I wasn't making much of anything just using my Mac's CPU/GPU to mine... then when the scrypt ASICs came out, I stopped altogether.  Instead, I purchased BTC mining hardware (very first ASIC was one of the little Antminer USB sticks - that I've still got plugged in and pointed towards -ck's solo pool) and have been mining BTC ever since.  I've gone through a bunch of hardware (S1s, S2s, S3s, SP10), and have also played around with some cloud mining services.  All told (including my current hardware and mining contracts), I've got ~12TH/s of BTC mining.

you sound like IRS 8)


there was a website, don't remember exactly the name but something like trading school or academy, you can learn the basic stuff there. i mostly used google, by searching different stuff and reading a lot. also hanging around in the altcoin/speculation/... places to get the hang of some stuff.

I think he is just greedy, he wants to know how much you earn.

I think its called KhanAcademy, they teach nice economic lessons there. Its a nonprofit organization all for free.

im asking him because profit from trading, I would assume, largely depends on the amount traded as well, if youre trading with 5 dollars, you'd be making a lot less than if you were trading multiple currencies with $1000. im asking because I want to know how much I should set aside if I were to get into trading for an expected income. why are you assuming everyone on here is some sort of bitcoin kleptomaniac?

also, its good to see khan academy expanding into su many subjects, last time I checked out the site I was still in high school and was just using it to learn calculus.

i was just kidding about the IRS thing :D
but if you want to start trading and haven't done that before i'd say you start with the minimum amount possible. because if you start big then your losses will be big too and that will cause you to give up.
after a while that you get comfortable enough, you can increase the investment.
the amount you invest totally depends on you and how you can profit from the market, it can be from 0.1BTC to 100BTC for profiting.

Alts are pretty much ignored and shunned, but they're actually pretty good.

For your alternative to getting a bitcoin jobs: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985550.0


It's depends on how the dev manage the coin. There are still a coin which everyone want to get the coin, example: LTC, Namecoin.


~iki

This is an interesting topic, you should set a new thread up with a poll so we can more easily see where everyone is. Set the highest amount choice for >2 BTC, to separate out the non-newbies that will inevitably respond even though they aren't new.

thats a pretty neat idea, id like to see that as well. I'll set up a thread with a poll in a bit :)

If you dont mind, you can close this thread, because it may cause sig abuse.