Bitcoin Forum

This may have been asked before, but I have not seen it. I guess many of you will try (and fail) to be funny with all sorts of jokes, but it would be interesting to know what kind of people are here right now.
Feel free to add your location too.

I am Ethicoin and must remain anonymous - but when I discovered BTC I spent about three days straight reading everything I could.

~ 6 months ago. Life has never been the same :)

first thought i had to blog some crap to fill the "5s", but this one is a good one...
coming from germany,over 30
came to bitcoin some time during the crash in april - as i studied the whole crisis a bit, the whole theme got me, especially the whole technical system behind it... the excitement hasn't left me so far - the whole bitcoin subject is so widespread in the meantime and growing every day ...
lots of news in the moment pos and neg and much more still to come i think...
keeps getting more n more interesting...

I'm 23 years old.
I first heard of Bitcoin by a friend of mine since he had lots of computers running and I had no idea why! So I asked him, and then he explained Bitcoins to me!

I mostly using my btc for gambling, @ sportsbooks, much more convenient payout methods then regular online offshore books, u can just transfer your btc to coinbase, sell and have $ in your bank account

I'm from the UK, over 30, and had read about Bitcoins here and there. Ordered a Butterfly Lab Jalapeno, but of course I don't have it yet. Started to get serious after the Cypriot banking crisis. Have been lurking around these boards for about 3 months now.

Oh, yes, mining Bitcoins seems a good excuse to buy cool hardware  :)

I am 26 and got into Bitcoin about 2 months ago!

just being curious - when did you order yours?

I'm 32 and paypal fee's brought me here  :P

Lol  :D

Toward the end of March. I have thought about selling my pre-order on eBay, but that's not very interesting. Of course, by the time the device arrives it may be little more than an expensive doorstop!

Or you could turn it on an alt chain  ;)

ok, i guess that might take some time... i'm trying the other way by having stepped into a group buy for Avalon ASICS and hoping for soon delivery and assembly by some of the specialists in this forum...
by the time you receive your jalapeno, this might work for me too...
doubt it being just a brick in the door to stumble over - at least not yet this year...  ;)

I'm 23 years old indian  ;D
I bought my first bitcoin around 2 years ago for 2$ something from mtgox.


http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1977/lgt4c3.png

Love the screenshot! Nice touch  ;D

31 AND MY FIANCE GOT ME STARTED WITH MINING

Over 40 and I wanted a new motorbike!

In February, Bitcoins seemed to be waking the news, and I though it might be a good place to put my money if I was planning to save it and buy a motorbike at the end of the year!

As it happened, the price went silly very quickly afterwards, and I was able to take out what I had saved, leaving in 5 times as much as I had started with - so bitcoins for me now is about the potential, and eventually buying a brand new motorbike! ;)

I love the technical stuff, hate the politics, and think what we have here is possibly the 21st century version of the HomeBrew Computer Club - I'm glad I am a member! ;)

That's cool :D

24 and Seals with Clubs got me into BTC. Such an awesome currency!!!

Your fiance? That is awesome

I'm 14, and I got interested in the concept, read a lot about it, tried to mine, had a bad hashrate, bought bitcoins, gambled, won, invested, profited, having fun.

Quit gambling while you're ahead!  ;)

I am, don't worry. What I gamble are small amounts. (0.001-0.01)

Where do you gamble and why there?

Good question.

Probably Satoshi dice unless he hit the bigtime on one of the lotteries :)

Haha, where to start? And as the post below me suggested, nope never tried Satoshi Dice! Don't intend to.
PrimeDice - Fun game, currently a loss there, don't intend to try and get positive there.
BitMillions - Buy a ticket occasionally, won 0.5BTC recently
BitVegas - 2BTC+
Coinroll - Used the free bonus here +0.1BTC
BetsonEurovision + 0.04BTC (not a lot, but still nice)

And probably a lot more, that I'm currently forgetting, I play them because I find it fun. I've also been gifted BTC by some generous people, and have about +0.52BTC profit from an ASICminer share.

I'm 31 and I got interested when seeing a report about Bitcoin in german TV. It's a nice concept. In my view not so much on a local basis but much more on a global internetcentric basis.

I believe a few years from now, when things are more secure, Bitcoin will be THE method for payment in the internet (it's  a long way but the potential is there that Paypal and credit cards will be replaced). I also think it will greatly ease up disconnecting the location of employers and employees. By that I mean that by using Bitcoin you will easily be able to pay people on the other side of the globe to do work for you. I think that's a concept a lot of companies (especially internet companies) will adopt.

Thanks for sharing :) Why did you never try SD and do not intend to?

I heard about it on OmegaTau podcast.

Not sure really, heard about a lot of people losing there, same as any dice game probably, but I won't try it.

I am 25. Been in and out of the Bitcoin world, but finally decided to take a full plunge a few weeks earlier. Hoping to contribute something meaningful to the ecosystem. Trying out a few advertising services now

I would have to agree!!

I'm 29 and I work in IT. I don't remember where I first heard about bitcoin but I started trading back in 2011.

Got into it after hearing about it through AVTM.

21, USA, the PBS idea channel on youtube did a special about virtual economies and Bitcoin. I just had to get in on this!

Various news articles popping up (after the April crash).

51, and i plan on using the coins to pay for my shady activities with ladies of the night. 

love the capslock

32

Very interesting thread! I am glad I started it. Keep on replying guys! Nice to know the people behind the usernames.

27.  I got into bitcoin back in 2009 and only ran it for a few days then forgot about it till I heard news it was ~$30USD/1BTC.  I thought I would check to see how many I had.  150BTC...  in an adrenaline induced state, I sold it all off then.  Semi-regretting that decision now ><

Hello im 25 and we put money together with my friend and bought some machines with Graphics cards and we mined some bitcoins. We were only sad we started too late to have more :) But now im more into it and wants to know more, but cant ask questions yet in real discusion :(

why age is needed?

This is just a post of interest, to see what kind of people there are here, I assume.

23, and the mediahype when btc hit 100 USD.

I haven't burned myself or made some serious returns yet. Never mined anything or have any deeper knowlege about programming.

LOL!

23 and I am interested in Bitcoin because of Ecommerce. Selling worldwide now is bit of a hassle, but with bitcoin, it is so much easier.

Exactly. I think it helps us to make much more sense of the Bitcoin landscape when we know the average age of BTC users. I also personally like demographics. I want to know if BTC is only a new generation thing, or there are people of all ages/socio-economic strata/countries here

I'm old enough  ;) and started about 2 weeks ago. Laptop is not good for this even when it is a gaming laptop so i will build a mining desktop soon.

im also in the uk. the cypriot crisis cost me a fortune too. bitcoins seem to have been around for ages, its only now ive been forced to diversify. given the current state of world economics, wish i could go back a few years

28. I wanted to find a "hole" in bitcoin, as I fought about it as a ponsi sheme.

Seems like the first confession that Silkroad brought them to bitcoin.
Seriously, check your grammar! Three mistakes in one sentence is too much.

Thank you for pointing this out. This is not because of drugs. It's just me.

28, I deal with compliance in the finance industry...  heard about bitcoin on zero-hedge and have been hooked ever since.  I also needed a freedom outlet after Ron Paul retired :)

I'm gonna stay anonymous, but I love the idea of bitcoins, and that's what got me into it.

In my thirties. I first heard about Bitcoins and the deep web, and didn't think much of it. Several years passed, then I heard about Litecoins. I needed Bitcoins to acquire these (wasn't a miner). That was when I learned more about Bitcoins.

28, I love the concept of Bitcoins and the rush of the adventure...

I heard about bitcoin from friends since 2011 but had rejected it. I sympathized with friends who lost a lot of money after the collapse in 2011. Middle 2012 my passionate friend was continuing to bring it up and I finally started to bring up my strong counterarguments I had against it (government clamp down & deflationary nature). He made me see they were invalid and since then it basically has taken over my life. :)

Upon research I noticed that another friend had sent me a link about Bitcoin already in middle of 2010! I don't even remember having checked it out. I guess one needs some free space in his head as well to be open for it.

Right now i am 21, and i was about to start mining bitcoin 3 years ago with one of my friends, but we did nnot have a place to put the mining rig, so we asked my parents, if we cut set it up at my place, they talked us out of it, and now i am back. :)

Sorry they talked you out of it. :/ Great you follow your own instincts now. :)

I'm 14 and my dad got me into Bitcoin :)

14 - known about it since I was 11 from a /g/ thread

Mid 30s. The mrs. and I have a "joint" bitcoin account. Got involved during the bubble of April. Thank God Bistamp took so long to process our fiat - otherwise we would've bought at >$200. Ending up buying a whole load at $57 -- sweet :) .. and then lost 20 BTC pretending to be a day trader. Got a few ASICMINER-PT shares .. which gives me a decent amount of pocket money through dividends. Thinking of investing in the Bitfury Asicminer soon... hence why trying to post in the newbie forums like a boss to get the chance to participate elsewhere :)

about a week ago, I needed to buy something online without using my credit card because I didn't trust the seller.

22.

Did a bit of mining in 2011, but the girlfriend at the time thought my computer was making too much noise.

Now I'm back, and with a vengeance.

Old enough.. figured it's time to try my luck at this gambling with mining. =}

28, and I want to make a little money on the side. Im essentially treating this as a high risk investment, essentially gambling with some spare money I have. Loving the sense of adventure that Bitcoin gives me :)

34 - I'm interested in alternate currencies.

i'm 24 years old and first read about bitcoin on a german it news site back in march.. would be cool if i heard it before but anyway. it's intresting to be a part of this!

i like that it helps me learn more about my computer and the capabilities of the hardware

Got invovlved after hearing about the shut down of Liberty Reserve,wish I found out earlier

Same, except this year, so she had more of a point - 0.1 bitcoin/week with a noisy computer isn't really worth it, so I've stopped with the mining. :D

I can't remember how I heard about Bitcoin to be honest. Probably Reddit.

Im 21 and first hear about bitcoin about a year ago when i was buying a VPN subscription. They were around $13 back then but i didnt realize the potential. I love the technical side of it and iv recently gotten interested in econmics. So Bitcoin is a blend of my two favorite things: Technology and economics

Really interesting thread  :D

Since I have found bitcoin, I have shown about 10 people, most of which don't wan to even touch it. Oh well, more Bitcoin for me! <3

25, got infected by my little brother..

37, I think. :) Heard about bitcoin from a coworker a couple years ago, but never put the time into setting up a miner. Oops. Then a guy I met at a party a couple months ago couldn't stop talking about it so I figured it was time. Kind of obsessed now.

I'm 22. I'm a programmer, and Bitcoin is an interesting technology. I like that it allows you to ignore the overly complicated world of Visa/Paypal/etc if you happen to be programming something.

I'm 23, and I got into it about 3 months ago...been kicking myself for not doing it sooner, kicking myself for not getting in on the Avalon batches, and will probably start kicking myself for not getting in on BFL if they start shipping en masse.  Making a little money on the side, and having fun with it - I love ordering piles of parts and building mining rigs.
I got my parents to a point where they're okay with it and they let me install a 120/240V 50A outlet in the basement for my mining rigs. ;D

I seem to be one of the youngest ones around here. I'm 19 and reddit somehow brought me here.

Nope, I'm 14, so I'm youngest from what I've seen here. I first heard of it at age 12, but.. I.. formatted my laptop. With my wallet. With possible bitcoins on it. I was unaware..

I'm over the hill and studying economy... some thing positive needs to happen so BC looks better then lots of stuff...

27, and the odds on hitting it big seem better with BTC than blowing my funds on lotto tickets.

28, reading about deep web/SR

41, The bank called by loan due with a 185,000 balloon payment. Took some work but I came up with it. now I am debt free. The bank thought they were going to get my house on the cheap. Now i'm off the hamster wheel. Give to ceasar what is ceasars. The bank can have there dollars, I got bitcoins.

Age: 16

I actually did a research paper last year, and I chose to cover the deep web and that ilk. Well, of course by researching that stuff I came across bitcoins and got the wrong impression of them (used only for drugs, illegal weapons, etc.). Teacher loved it, got an A, forgot about everything for a while until I saw bitcoins in a news article and everything came back. Only in the article they weren't presented as an evil currency of hackers and criminals, but a full fledged investment strategy and explained what they were and how they worked, albeit just scratching the surface. Started going in depth on my own, got a wallet and officially jumped in.

I'm 24 and technical interest/libritarian mindset got me into bitcoin. I'm hoping to have fun using my programming skills to make bitcoin related projets and maybe make a few bitcoins along the way.

I'm 21, I saw the news. And really like it at first.

30, but was 28/29 when i heard about it. Still kicking myself for not doing more research and buying in cheap (as are many people i guess!).

Thanks for replies. Keep them coming!

I'm 50 years old.
first i  fold for fah.
now i am mining for a year btc

I am on the wrong side of sixty and retired.

Only heard of BTC a few months ago.  Quivered and shook a bit when I bought my first BTC, after reading all I could after about a month.

I still read all the news about BTC and have bought more.  My average buy price to date is US$111.00/BTC, wish I found out two years ago.

I really would like BTC to be adopted globally, sick of reading about huge payouts to banksters, everything is so corrupt and the poor are getting poorer.

It really concerns me what future the youth of today will have.  If technology advances for the good, like BTC, then there is hope.



 

I am nearly 91 and collapse of Liberty Reserve bring me in this community and now I enjoying this one and trying to be a very good member of this community  :D

Im 20. I first read about bitcoins on a pokerforum. I read a bit about it back then, not too much though. When I really got more into bitcoins it was because of esports-betting.

I am 14 and use my bitcoins to fund my projects! (http://nahtnam.com)

Im 19 years old and im into bitcoins for 5 monthes
the anonymity mainly attracted me  :)

I'm over 40 and have been interested in distributed computing solutions for many years.

I first tried (cpu) mining in 2011 when I decided I should experience it first hand since I was warning people away.
To be clear, I never expected to actually succeed in mining on my own, but I wanted to see how setting up the client, syncing the blockchain, etc worked out because people were asking for my opinion.

The power to reward ratio, being what it was didn't change my mind.

Then this summer a buddy of mine was tapped to join a new ASIC company, so I grabbed a USB Erupter and played with it on a Raspberry Pi to get up to date.  After 3 months I have only recovered 25% of the cost, but i'll keep it running for as long as it's generating more revenue than the cost of electricity. [Right now I'm only generating about $.07/day profit including the power for the Pi,Hub and ASIC]

I continue to work on my own distributed compute projects and while I remain hesitant about the future of bitcoin, it seems foolish to ignore the current window of opportunity.

33. Found them first reading on a poker forum. Really mad at myself for not buying in at that time.

I'm in my mid-twenties. I wanted to use a premium service that was only available through payment with bitcoin or Google wallet. Since GW is incompatible with my banks policies I had to use bitcoin.

32 and just for fun and time pass came in this forum and now want to do full time this work sell and buy of bitcoins  ;D

I'm 36 - I've been a longtime lurker, first time poster.  I heard about Bitcoin at the same time I heard about SR, I think it was a Wired article.  Probably mid 2011.  I just bought my first bitcoin literally 2 days before the SR takedown.  I've been a gold bug since 07, so BTC caught my interest immediately... unfortunately back then I didn't have the spare change to invest and was too concerned with feeding my family, paying bills, etc.

I like the fundamentals surrounding the BTC economy.  In addition to investing & using BTC now, I'm also accepting payment in Bitcoin for my web design business, though no one's taken me up on that payment option yet, it should only be a matter of time...

35 , read some post with mining but never started and regreting now :(

I'm 29. At present I am working as CNC engineer. I've heard firstly about bitcion at the end of 2011, though mianly have been using ATI cards for sl3 bruteforcing for a year at least. Got some info through gsm forums and.. et voilà! I have been playing with gpus and diffrent kinds of fpga for minning so far.

20 years old :)
And curiosity

37 something fresh

I'm in my mid-20s and reside in California (USA). I don't think I want to get too much more specific than that! Good to see so much diversity on the forums!  :)

Hello, I'm 27. I think it was open source world (as a long time Linux user) which brought me to Bitcoin. After my first ever BTC trade yesterday I can safely ask - why do we need banks anymore? :)

I am almost 40 after losing too much in Liberty Reserve came to this forum and now try to have some worth and good contribution mostly read on google search and on this forum  :)

I'm 23 and regret brings me here.

I was using Tor back in the day for shit and giggles when SR was just starting and bitcoins were 14 dollars or so and i didnt buy.... Well fuck me huh

38 and looking for an alternative too Fiat, big fan of gold and silver :)

i'm 29, first time i heard about bitcoin was in May 2013, i have a KNC miner since 15th October.

27 here, started mining after some news came out about how people earn $100,000 with mining...

37 and started mining for...

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/2610488320/h9F55E759/

My attention to Bitcoin got article how a pizza was sold for 10.000 BTC which after 2 years are worth 1.000.000 USD !

I'm 56.
My sons (23 and 29) got me into it- they built a custom GPU rig for BTC mining about 2 years ago. I started reading up on it, and when it came time to build a new PC for my home office, I got a nice case that can hold the longer GPU cards. I now run 2 cards in it (5830 and 5750).  With the BTC difficulty increase, I have since switched them to LTC.

Back in Feb 2013 I ordered a BFL 30 Gh Little Single, and just got it a week or so ago.  It was defective. It came with only 2 screws holding the motherboard, and a rattling loose Mobo screw.  Even after adding the screw, the PC couldn't see it, and the fan wouldn't turn. So still didn't run. :( .  After an RMA, got a working one a quick week later and have been ASIC mining BTC's since.

I am 41 and got a few Btc from my brother.

i am 36 the news brought me here

I am 32, and surprised I am about the median age.

I heard about Bitcoin on Slashdot in about 2010, but dismissed it as an interesting concept that would never work. About a year later I actually started following it (Wow, worth over $1/BTC!), but did not buy until this summer.

I am concerned that computers are fundamentally insecure. My Bitcoins are in cold storage until I can set up a "secure" computer for doing Bitcoin transactions. I also hope to set up a Bitcoin node (with token mining). So far have spent more on that than Bitcoins themselves :P

i am 28 my friend told me about this and i think its fun so i am here

Hi
I am 35 from Buenos Aires, Argentina
I found out about bitcoin in febrabry 2013 from one of my best friends that came all excited about this currency, took me a while to fully understand how it works, and since I am a fan (or more exactly, obssessed with) GPU technology, one month later I was mining, and been mining ever since, of course now I am mining scrypt currencies.
Also been a while in this forum but always as anonymous, now it's time to show up properly hehe

I recently got into bitcoin and it's super exciting. Bought my first coins at the end of September.  It's been a pleasant roller coaster ride so far.  I'm feeling positive about bitcoin. There need to be more services accepting the currency!

Twenty two and it was in march of this year.

In my twenties. Heard about bitcoin in 2009-2010 in libertarian circles and was surprised in 2011 to see it had taken off so much. Been on this ride ever since then, sometime in 2011.

I'm 22, and what brought me into Bitcoin is your volatility, which makes him perfect for exchanges.

I'm in my 30s. I first found out about bitcoin when the SilkRoad started getting some press for the first time. Though I've heard about bitcoin for a while now, every time i come back to look at it, it's looking more and more interesting.

The advantages of bitcoin over traditional alternatives are too big to be ignored

In my 20s. Heard about BTC very early (sub $1), but being the lazy idiot I am, I thought to myself I'd do some research on it later, but it never happened and forgot about it. I later heard about it again in early 2013 and was surprised to heard it was at like $10, followed by $20 some time later, and finally shocked to heard the heights it got to in april. Again, being the idiot I am, I still didn't invest anything in it thinking I had already missed the train. I finally got into it when I heard about the SR bust and I've already managed to make a nice profit. I'll never forgive myself for not getting into it earlier, though.

Well I'm 27 and I like the idea of decentralized currency which is not held by banks.

It was in the early 30s, now I am a little older  ;)

When I turned 20 when I first heard about Bitcoin in 2011. I read a bunch of articles about it and liked the idea of a decentralized currency but at that time I didn't know exactly what to do with the few bitcoins I earned with a little mining.
Therefore I lost the interest in BTC until the value started rising rapidly, that was the moment I got into BTC trading. Very little compared to other people at the market but it's a very fascinating thing for me. I like to try and "understand" the rules of the market, looking and analyzing the charts
Threads like "Goomboo's Journal" about EMA and trading strategies caught my attention and at the moment I'm working on my own trading strategy


So in short: Trading got me into Bitcoin

Hi!

I'm Michael, 16 Years old and the Internet broght me to Bitcoins. I was watching some Youtube Videos and then there was a Video about Bitcoin. After that I searched other Bitcoin Videos and found "EndWorldSucksDotCom", that was this year in April.

Late 30s, had an interesting in cryptography for a number of years.

Im 18 years old. One of my friends/co-workers told me at a break that one of his friends had invested in something called mining, i went home and looked into it. Have been caught since.

I'm 20 years old and found out about bitcoin on a youtube advert and it got me!!

:D

I'm 23. I first heard about Bitcoin in 2011 and remember being baffled about the idea of mining on a computer for currency. I shrugged it off, didn't look further into it and am now kicking myself.

treat yourself as you would like others to treat u.

no kicking, be kind to yourself

also opportunities are like trains, there is always a next one

I don't think u missed the btc train though, he's getting ready but still plenty of room, hump aboard sailor!  :)

Very true. I know it's silly to second guess yourself and regret not acting, but, what a train to miss!! I'm hoping to buy myself my first Bitcoin as soon as I get paid this week.

I think feeling regret is healthy, it helps you learning from your mistakes.

However, kicking yourself like I used to do, self attacking, calling myself a loser, that is not good. You don't learn, just become even more risk averse and miss the next opportunity as well.

I'm 25 and only heard about bitcoin a few months ago from a friend at a party. I spent the entire next day researching mining online (which my girlfriend did not appreciate), and I attempted to start mining with the GPU that I already had. The room it's in got so hot in the middle of the summer that I had to turn it off after just one day :(

That is if bitcoin is going to grow.

I'm 25. Heard of it around January. Holding on to 20 bitcoins. Love the concept of cryptocurrency.