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I'd be interested to hear about what peeked your interest in Bitcoin? Was it recent press coverage, a friend or family, or something else?

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Good Question!

For me, I am in Financial Services and Business Analytic's so the premise of a non-sovereign, economic majority based current, with cash, check and card attributes, is worth investigating!!

Cheers!

I am a member of the Church of Neuroscience, and I was looking for a cheap alternative to some of the sacraments offered on the site (like Etizolam), and I checked out the Silk Road. And I wasn't sure what the little symbol meant, so I had to learn a little bit about bitcoin and I have been learning more ever since.

My boyfriend kept going on about them, I gave in and bought 3.

i have put together a very useful ( i think) bitcoin tutorial and starter kit.  i am hoping for feedback from fellow members here on this forum. https://littlebiggy.com/4755888
any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated!

reddit brought me here

The Greek government-debt crisis is the main reason for it.

the hope new alt coins to buy low and sell again high. ;)

Seeking alternative currencies for fiat

everyone has the same hopes and dreams

yes, the alt coins are the burner 8-)

Liberty Movement brought me to Bitcoin. 1776 and all that.

Agreed

I read an article

what a article?

An article i read

the money!

Interesting question, indeed.
For me, it was a newspaper title at some street booth (I did't buy the newspaper, btw!)...

My desire to transfer money anonymously brought me to Bitcoin.

Sounds like a whole host of reasons! One of the reasons I'm still interested in Bitcoin is the diverse and expansive group that it attracts, it's fascinating.

Follow up question:

How did you get your first Bitcoin(s)?

Yeah, there are probably a few accidental Bitcoin millionaires.

Money, what else?

I'm interested in learning basic economics

Read about it in a forbes article. Found this forum while googling Bitcoin

Money and interest in new technology. Been reading about how it works for many hours.

I saw an ad for BFL while on Google Finance a couple months ago. I thought it was like mining in an MMO except you get Bitcoins.  I was about to buy a mini single, but I'm glad I found this place and the threads here.

I can't remember what exactly tipped me over the edge of full-on curiosity.

I think it was all the rave about the value going up... oh and Cyprus.

Cyprus showed how banks can do whatever the hell they want with people's money. Kind of an eye opener that one.

We already knew banks and government were on a wrong one, but the Cyprus news condensed it into a single event.

I first got introduced when my friend bought some bitcoins on mtgox. My first bitcoins were from bitfloor ouch.

Started studying U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. My political awakening followed. I found a money trail connecting most of the worst atrocities in history to the international banks. I started hating banks. Just when I thought I couldn't hate banks anymore, the great recession hit, and I found a way. There is no word in the English language to describe how hideously evil the international bankers are. As my research continued, my hatred grew. I started watching Max Keiser. Max introduced me to bitcoin in the Summer of 2011. My life has never been the same since.

I wish there was a follow button so I could follow you Chalidore. Enlightened one.

Do you twitter?

Why doesn't this forum have a follow function?

Greedy central banks brought me here! :P

Andy B

I've known it since 2011 or so but didn't pay too much attention till the recent spike in value. Bad mistake ^^'

I've always been mad at the US economy, bankers, and politicians.  I wanted money in a decentralized currency.  I never thought it would take off like it did though!  Put over 50% of my money in coins when they were $13.  I'm quite lucky!

I heard about bitcoin over the past year or two, in random science news article headlines that I just glanced over and didn't read.  Then a couple months ago I finally read some article about bitcoin linked by ahem*slashdot*ahem mentioning mining.  Then I looked up what mining is and starting reading about the history of bitcoin.

Then I immediately got depressed that I've been building high-end gaming rigs and running "charity" distributed computing projects for years, when I could have been making money!  ???

Then I got more bummed that on my last build, I built with a watercooled gtx580!  >:(

Now I'm just fascinated by it due to my libertarian political/Austrian economic viewpoints.

Also mining with my newly acquired 7950. :)

A certain site I was curious to see.

My husband told me about it and I found out I could accept it using my Magento shopping cart.

the money brought me here :)

Some PulseNews articles I read. I had heard about it a long time ago but thought it sounded kind of silly and expected it to die soon afterwards.

To be honest, I still think it's a little silly but if people value it, I'm down to explore that further. Seems wrought with shady activity though...

;P

Andy B

I listen to TWiT (This Week in Tech), hosted by Leo Laporte. I heard about BitCoin a few times on the podcast. I looked into it and noticed the price was around $55 USD per coin but it had recently been $254!

Figured I had to look more into this! I now own 1.39 BTC and bought around $75 per. Sure wish I was more ahead of the curve on this. Oh well...

Thanks. Glad to know reading all those books and watching all those documentaries made me wise enough to impress somebody other than my wife.
This is my fifth post, so I will be leaving the newbie section now. I plan on posting mostly in custom hardware and economic speculation.
If you wish to support my lifelong quest of exposing bankers for the corrupt moth hair foo cars that they are, please send some BTC to:
14PLbwsDP4K8JkJ3V3GVTe8x8T6KsAo4bj

The Greek government-debt crisis is the main reason for it

A friend told me about it and I figured I'd try to get in before it crowds up.

I'm an AM talkshow host.  My co-host brought Bitcoin up in conversation.  (I think it was a few days after the crash.)

I didn't know much about it, but as I was closing out the show, I said I would throw a computer together and try it out - and the phone-lines lit up with callers interested in following the story.

The next day, I went to Best Buy and bought a 7850 and started mining.
It took me 20 days to get to my first bitcoin. 
A few upgrades later, and I had my next bitcoin in 10 days.
I blogged the steps I was taking - and my audience fell asleep with boredom.
I've since stopped even mentioning the word on the air.  The perception was get rich quick - and $10 worth of bitcoins a day wasn't impressing anyone.
Now, it's just my own little obsession.

I've heard of Bitcoins back in 2009. At a quick glance, I thought it was like Paypal. Just another payment processor. As the years past, I ignored it and didn't think nothing much about it until I saw an article on Mashable about a Canadian man selling his home and willing to accept payment via Bitcoins. Then I was in awe! What is Bitcoin? What can I do with it? From there I did my research.

I first got into Bitcoin from this article in the New York Times (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/as-big-investors-emerge-bitcoin-gets-ready-for-its-close-up/).  Then I got Bitcoin-Qt, and got my first bitcoin (or a fraction thereof) from free.btc.pt (https://free.btc.pt/login/?action=register&AFFID=5870).

This guy and his fellow central bankers monopolistic control brings ppl to bitcoin daily.

http://colunistas.ig.com.br/ricardogallo/files/2012/01/Helicopter-ben-bernanke-1.jpg

I'd vaguely heard about it in the last year or so.  More recently a colleague who shares my interest in alternative currencies mentioned it and I decided to find out more.  I found a few sites where you can earn or receive bitcoins, tried out a couple wallets and started receiving bitcoins from the websites.  Bitcoinget is hands down the best bitcoin earning website I've encountered.

I really got into bitcoins during the couple weeks back in March when the value of Bitcoins climbed from $90 to $265 and then fell back down to $60 and back up to where it is now.

Although I don't really understand it, I'm fascinated by the way Bitcoin is introduced into circulation and all the algorithms and high math and computing power that goes into it.

For me, I am in Financial Services and Business Analytic's so the premise of a non-sovereign, economic majority based current, with cash, check and card attributes, is worth investigating!!

Finally decided it's for real and here to stay. In the process of cleaning out my excess 'stuff' and hitting ebay with it, decided to use revenues to get some ASIC mining gear and see if I can make enough to at least cover rent every month. And my inner early adopter was screaming 'take a chance!'

This is more of a return for me... I tried some BitCoin mining a while ago... But back again, though I can't find my old backup of my wallet from then... Never mind, it was just about 0.2 or so BTC... Lesson learned ;-)

Do you think the outcome with your audience would have been any different if there were it simpler and easier to mine Bitcoin? Either way cool story. Maybe you'll be able to utter the word once again when Bitcoin goes through its next cycle of media attention.

Edit: Misplaced comma.

An email with the topic "What is Bitcoin?" started it for me.

lol to be honest it was the thing i never thought would lead me to something like this

Aka

Minecraft lmao

it led me to btc

searching for a new VPN Provider and noticed they accepted Bit coins as payment..I was a curious boy and googled bit coins and now the past 2 weeks of my life has been consumed trying to get as much mining power from 2 crappy pc,s and 2 newer macs. Everything running smoothly but need to start the tweaking process..oh im addicted!

Too much money available led me to bitcoin.

It amazes me!

Background in finance/economics and political science interested in the very concept of a deflationary currency that is not accounted for in modern economics. Rather than fear such things I am very interested in the outcome even if it will be inflationary as long as I live :)

Came to bitcoin because I was really interested in the idea of making profit letting computer work for you  ::)

I remember reading about it in '09 and thinking it was a terrible idea that would never succeed.

because i am a geek

I'd like be a geek,

Quick bulks? not sure

I started reading about Bitcoin after seeing a few posts on Hacker News. I guess that would have been about 2 - 3 years ago. What's interesting is, after I'd learnt about it I remembered seeing a Bitcoin sticker over the entrance to Oxford Circus tube in London months before. It's amazing where it got to, and so quickly.

I don't think it was the process that made people yawn.  I think people expected that after spending $1000 on equipment, the returns would be more.  When it was "only $10" they were kind of put off that I wasted their time with the prospect.  But honestly, I was just experimenting.  I wasn't an advocate for Bitcoin - I wasn't trying to sell anyone on it - but it impressed the hell out of me.

Found out about it on HackerNews a while ago, at the time MtGox was heavily DDOS'd...

The Greek government-debt crisis is the main reason for it.

read an article about bitcoin on a random site

The fact that bitcoin is simply the future :)

My younger brother told me about it.

the hope new alt coins to buy low and sell again high.

Well i just startet but i must say the money :)

Reddit! Seems like a lot of people came from there too! :D

I'd like be a geek

The same reason I like Computer Science and Economics. :)

The idea of a decentralised economy sounds great to me. Financial institutions need to have less power, imo.
I believe that Crypto-currencies like Bitcoin remove much of their influence, due to not requiring a 3rd-party, and regulations to work properly.

Truthfully, because Bitcoin has become a lot more popular, is why I'm here. If Litecoins had become more popular, I'd probably be more involved with them.

Google'd "How to make money online" about a year ago... On about the 8th Google page, there was an article on Bitcoin Mining... and boom... I was suddenly interested, but now my interest isn't just about making money, I would like to see good things happen to the Bitcoin!

I read up on internet development and like anything based on protocols or other systems which we agree to do together but aren't controlled by governments / companies etc. And it seems to be taking off and could one day become the world's primary form of currency. It was hard to get into but hopefully it will be worth it.

Reddit and few other articles.

I found out about the 'Tor secret services', and decided to check it out, and because everything there is sold via bitcoin, I decided to check it out.
Now I'm addicted.

I found it when searching for paypal alternatives.

I heard about Bitcoin via HackerNews

Someone I learned a lot from.

An article if i remember right

Congrats on your departure from the Newbie section.

Sounds like there are a lot of places talking about Bitcoin these days, sending more people here. Welcome all!

Believe it or not i don't remember.
And it was not so long ago.

I have read an article once but hadn't paid much attention.
I think it was the mining part that made to jump on this wagon.

i have extra rig for bruteforce thats why i try bitcoin.. ;D

A tweet from Rick Falkvinge.

google some crypto things

Hmm...

Googling and internet lurking! :P

From IT forums in my country, I know it late  >:(

PayPal chargebacks.   I sold items worth $1 only but got 6 chargebacks in 1 day. So I googles if there is a payment system with no chargebacks.  First result is bitcoins.

Good question.

My brother talk me about this!  :)

Interesting question, indeed.

Interested in cryptography and on the economics theory behind bitcoins (fixed value of bitcoins in the system).

It was a dokumentation on YouTube and the idea of 'earn the money while I sleep' ;)

Red about bitcoin on an Exchange for Linden dollars, about 15 months ago. Bought some at the time at around $4,= and forgot about it. Glad I did because I earned well because of it  :)

I used to be an avid Folding@Home guy.  I work for a company in the Supercomputing field and we had lots of servers sitting idle most of the time.  I got us pretty high in the Folding@Home arena and then realized I could be making money doing the same type of work.  It was a no brainer to switch from Folding@Home to Bitcoin.

I've since made several thousands of dollars and am still going strong.

A friend of mine told me about it back in 2010. I followed it and mined for a bit, but then the crash of 2011 happened and I lost interest. My friend and I were thinking about putting $50 into bitcoins just to see what would happen once it dropped down to $3, but we never followed through. We're kicking ourselves now, that's for damn sure.

I have a friend who is bitcoin mining, on a 5850 back in August of 2012. I was Nvidia all the way and did not care for bitcoin mining at the time, but when he bought 2 5970 to mine and sold the 5850 to me and I did nothing with it for about 3 months but in January 2013 I decided to try it out. now I have about 8.6 GH/s mining in my house.

It's the best currency  :)

long-time lurker, first-time poster. About a year ago or so ago, I saw more and more pictures of people holding up signs with btc addresses. *cough* r/girlsgonewild . After seeing how quickly people were picking it up, taking an interest and becoming evangelists, it just made a lot of sense to dive in and learn how to swim.

This had a donate bitcoin page

http://www.aethermod.net/

Heh, 4chan's /g/ board introduced Bitcoin to me. I really didn't care for it when it was posted until the great crash a couple of months back or so (distant memory). Reddit also improved my knowledge about Bitcoin and the other alternatives, especially Litecoin.

My grandmother introduced me to it. Anyone else got that one?

A lot of what brought me to Bitcoin was the lack of a coherent argument against their plausibility as a transactional currency. A lot of folks have written editorials arguing for the dim prospects for Bitcoin; none of which have been compelling. On the other hand, there is a powerful narrative for why Bitcoin will prosper.

My Brother  ;D

He was obsessed at the time. I think he lost all his coins gambling though, so I've taken over his legacy hah  8)

The Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK.

I remember reading about it in wikipedia when it first came out but didn't become immersed until it hit the mainstream press a few months ago.

had to do an in depth project on digital cash, we made our own currency using a few algorithms (secret sharing, blind signatures, bit commitment, rsa, and random oracle) but because it was a small implementation we had it centalized. learned a lot about crypto, and bitcoin in the process. after i saw how useful it was, i had to jump on board

I think Devcoin is going to start bringing a lot of people to Bitcoin :)

We are planning to add Bitcoin payments to our VPN Services.

Was browsing the web and noticed SR & BTC initially.. but then the money (I bought my first few BTCs at less than US$20 each)

What does that mean?

Hello,

I am sure I heard of this a few years ago, if only I had filled my bedroom with computers and GPU's back then.

Today I am a software developer who took a trading course and cashed in big on a demo trading account with bitcoins.  After googling bitcoins and then trying to mine at home I quickly realised my hardware was next to useless.

So I have made an executive decision and invested around 4k in Butterfly labs hardware.  I sincerely hope it gets delivered in time to at least make back my investment costs.

I decided to buy a few devices as the worry is the difficulty will increase too quickly rendering a single device useless.

I have been told my device will be in the data centre in a couple of months, I will report back when it becomes available.

thanks


Andrew

  

We are a VPN service provider located on http://www.earthvpn.com .Currently we accept only paypal for payments.We are planning to add liberty reserve and bitcoin.Liberty reserve is having big issues so we are investigating bitcoin for an additional payment option.

You really should add Bitcoin!  Screw PayPal and their nasty attitude and monopolistic business practices, BTC is the way to go!

Money, curiosity, free electricity (for me only)

Around 2009 I've been reading about it.

However, mine has just started in April.

Bang my head against the wall ...

PS:

It would be a problem, you must have started!

Curiosity, and the fact that I can hav emy computers doing something productive while not in use.

Big press stories during the spike up and latest crash... And then the possibility of small side income! $-)

I was watching tek syndicate on youtube and did some mining for him while watching his show. after that I started asking myself why am I doing this for someone else to benefit and started doing it for myself. although I have benefitted much from it. maybe cut a year off my video card's lifespan

These days, There's already too many articles about bitcoin. I might as well see what the fuss is all about.

the hope new alt coins to buy low and sell again high

i read the wired magazine article about it and it intrigued me.

DAVINCIJ15 from youtube. silver guy. :D

When BitCoin found me, I was knee deep with 35 open tabs, I clicked on a shinny B coin link, and was struck with gold fever. After a week of researching I realized, I was a year or more too late to mine. The economics, being anonymous, a world currency, mining money while you sleep, technology. BitCoin encompasses everything.

I remember reading about it online today.

first i read about it on torrentleech where they started accepting donations in btc. Then i got into it for real and bought 8 mining rigs in march when the value got up.

My boyfriend, of course, he just won't shut up about it. He even talks about it in his dream. Aggrrrr, jealous of bitcoin.

I read a Topic in a Forum. So i started using it.

internet first, but i didn't care
then i saw a news on tv, and i tried again to know about btc

the US$200 rise per 1 btc  :o

Cyprus and the evolution of the crisis in Spain

The evil government control on wealth. The fallacy of the Fractional Reserve Banking. The "creation" of money. Inflation.  Yeah.  ;)

RT and Kaiser Report draw my attention to BTC first time as I can remember.
Money is for sure good motivation enough, but beside that I love the idea of decentralized currency in hand of anyone who is willing to put some effort to get it.

Making money and also it's an awesome idea

Being the next big invention after the Internet.

it's MAGICAL

it teaches you to waste valuable electricity usage and turns it to virtual money  :P

An article about making money by mining.

Some news article I stumbled upon. Don't remember which one :-/

BitcoinMoxy.com (http://BitcoinMoxy.com)

I just wanted to purchase a t-shirt and my curiosity was piqued when I saw the bitcoin payment option.

No actually that I think of it I learned of Bitcoin from this stock trading forum years ago.

The way that Bitcoin is a new currency that is self managed, and investing.

interesting posts here.

I bet soon there are gonna be some people saying "Bitcoin town brought me to Bitcoin".
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=216139.0

Interesting thread

an article what i read on internet and the destiny brought me to bitcoin  ;D

IIRC, I was researching PayPal alternatives.