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How did you learn crypto currency? A friend or relative shared it or you researched it by yourself?

i have first seen it online and heard some rumors about how fast it grows and you can earn some bucks from it but then i tend to ignored this since i haven't seen enough evidence personally "to see is to believe" right ? but after a few months i saw/heard my friends talking about this crytocurrency this and they're earning a lot of money from it. so i tried to ask them how but sad to say they tend to ignore me and keep those information's they have. so I did some research about it and end up here on this site/group where i found out a lot of things that could also help me to improve on this industry. so what i can advice is try to wonder and roam around this site. there's a lot of good people in here who share they're knowledge and help you understand crytocurrency. also try to do some research online, start from the bottom/history of BTC and you'll soon get the hang of it.

If you are a complete beginner, I would suggest starting off with Bitcoin. Try to understand what Bitcoin is and how it works then you can dive in into more complex topics.
While reading about blockchain as a technology, you will probably encounter many technology related terms like blocks, mining, Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake(PoS), smart contracts, hashing, etc. You will need a Glossary (https://blockchainhub.net/glossary/). I also recommend bitcoinwiki.org (https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page) for that. You can find all the answers there
As a next step, I would suggest creating a wallet and playing with the software sending transactions back and forth. This way you get to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain. Start off with $10 USD you don't need to buy a whole Bitcoin. You will learn about addresses, backups and private keys. But here you should be very careful to choose a good wallet

Thru Paxful school on facebook...

I;m learn from all the internet, google.

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I learned it from a friend, didn't believe it at first but after few months I tried and now got stuck with it because of the earnings and some new things I learn in crypto :)

I first learned about Bitcoin from a friend and actually opened a wallet without knowing what it was for. A few months passed and I got interested in buying some Bitcoin and from there, I snowballed into really investing every month.

I got this knowledge from my co-worker.He explained it to me on what is this coin and how it works.I don't believe him at first because it sounds like impossible to do it and I even asked him if it is a scam.He answered me with a smile.That time I got curious because I notice he's smile is different.It has a meaning.So I began searching in the Internet and realizing that my co-worker is right about the crypto currency.

Hi Our charity is currently raising funds and feeding families from bitcoin - we have a online store https://thecharitystore.org . we want to add educational advise on here for the community are there any content craeters who would like to get involved . in any way .. thanks in advance

Before im so active on money making methods example is ptc,paid to click are super hard to earn money. I found a thread about this bitcoin and my curiosity takes me to tbis forum, and then my bitcoin journey has started.

A friend explained some information about bitcoin and told me to make money!
It made me very interested, so I bought the first book "how to invest in digital currency and digital currency 2.0 times, my first preliminary understanding of digital currency, then study in BBS!

i learn crypto currency in social media like facebook there so many people posted about crypto currency

i joined whatsapp groups that discussed bitcoin and other coins daily. i read and click and open links from the group and look up for online related blogs and sites that discuss bitcoin and crypto currency. but i'm beginning to learn more from this forum than i used to learn online. i hope i can learn more from people's experience here

Way back in and around 2010 I came to know about bitcoin, blockchain, mining etc. but never took any action or showed any interest in it.

I already had an established online business back then with so many blogs and online portals - that I simply couldn't find any time to take any action on crypto currencies.

But being online and reading stuff, I got to know a lot even back then. Now that I look back, it seems very stupid to have done nothing about it,

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Uttoran Sen

 I first heard some of the crypto currency from one of my friends. He told me that he was earning a lot of money from it but I didn't pay attention to him, I thought it was some kind of networking business and I didn't realize that crypto currencies will grow this much. I just started using some of the crypto currency because I already know that the profit will be high. I'm still studying and learning everything that I can about how crypto currency system works.

There are several really good documentaries on Amazon prime, netflix etc.  They explain some of the history of crypto, the current banking system, and even go into individual pssychologies during the up and down roller coaster of bitcoin.  The best and most important advice from all the learning and what everyone promotes is to just HODL during the downswings and BUY on the DIPS.

Seriously if you just take those two things and think long term your investments willl be solid
Learn as much as you can about blockchain tech, fundamentals of investing, but really just keep  HODLING long term

I have heard about it on the internet
a few friends started to talk about it too, it sparked my interest, but i kinda forgot about it
then i accidentaly stumbled upon a video about blockchain on cointelegraph channel... and decided to give it a watch. from that moment i was a fan :) this is this very video.. maybe it will inspire you to research more or something as well :) https://youtu.be/9SAL-JhJ5t8

I saw on the internet maybe in some articles, can't remember exactly ???

I got to this forum by chance and since then my love for crypto currency has increase. I now make predictions based on my knowledge in crypto currency. It is not a one time affair, it requires hard work if you are new.

I started with reading some books ("Blockchain Revolution" and "The Age of Cryptocurrency") they are greatly explainig everything. And for daily needs I use bitcoinwiki.org (https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page)

i was researching dark web and got to learn about bitcoin from there lol

I agree, bitcoinwiki is a very good resource to start from

I learned crypto currency in my officemates. They were crypto entushiasts. I also heard this from my churchmate and so I think this is legit but with regards the type of coin or currency. I'm so reluctant at first year I knew this but gave in at this year. I'm into this now.

Bitcoin was introduced to me by a friend of mine. At first, I overheard them talking about it. They made it look like bitcoin is a fun thing and is another way of earning money. I totally ignored them because it didn't caught my interest. Then my boyfriend, who happens to be a full member here already, encouraged me. I refused before because it seems to me that engaging in this type of thing will consume much of my time. However, I saw the benefits of being a part of this. Yes, it will take much of your time, but in the long run you will be the one greatly benefited.


My boyfriend advised me to read everything I have to know about bitcoin and the digital world of currency. That personal research I did was the next way how I knew about bitcoin. I

I started following this forum notified by my friend. but not informed how to make money from this forum.
lastly I find out myself about this forum. by searcing information over the internet.

i think experience is the best teacher here, we all know that, but when it comes to crypto currency ,you need to stick around those those your experienced folks whom you know very well, they can put you through,always ask them questions when ever you feel you are lost on the way.
with that learning becomes easy and never fail to read about trading online.that helps too.

A relative of mine has been engaged with Bitcoin and crypto currencies and we noticed that he seems to be earning a lot.  We asked him and he shared the good news and he had been patient to convince and taught us.  But after hearning from him I did research and readings and join groups online  to know if it is true and indeed, I found out that it was real and it help them earn big and decent amount.

I learnt from a telegram group created by an expert in cryptocurrency...

I have first learn crypto currency  through internet, i just saw some interesting information about cryptocurenncy and i just started to deal with it through watching some tutorials in internet.

I got an idea from my friend, then I searched it in youtube. There are so many videos to learn about crypto-currency.

I learned about crypto currency through the YOUTUBE channels. When you are in crypto currency field you must learn crypto currency first and you have to be patient some times.

It was a long time ago, in early 2011. There were a few online articles about bitcoin reaching parity with dollar, probably starting the first BTC hype (maybe there were earlier ones, but I know nothing about them). It rose to about $32 just a few months later.

u can learn it through google, youtube, forums. Also u can learn a lot from this forums. I am learn so much about cryptocurrency from this forum. and u also can follow my youtube channel also. I share about cryptocurrency as much as I know
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnMJqWibBtzElsKQ9sGkIg?view_as=subscriber

I started to noticed crypto last year when I read an article about it. Then I started doing my research through joining cryptogroups and reading articles and blogs and watching youtubes. It really helps. Now, I'm sharing what I learned and I've been doing blogs about it so I can help other people to know the basic and fundamentals of it.

I learn crypto by internet, newspaper and see the video or meet an expert person and learn more or more about it.

i took a main idea about cryptocurrency watching youtube videos and reading some articles about cryptocurrency. when i watching some youtube videos, they introduced some twitter groups. then i joined with those groups. it was a great way to learn about cryptocurrency.

I learn about crypto currency from various wedsites and also from bitcointalk forum. This forum helps us know upcoming details and informations about crypocurrency.

I have friends who are in crypto world for a few years. I heard from them about BTC. And i google a lot.

It is quite awful for me that cryptocurrency existed some 9 years ago already. Accordingly, it was created to address the 2008 global crisis. And yet, I just learned about it recently through my younger brother who happened to be crypo miner. He introduced me the complexities and the rudimentary principles of crypto currencies. I tried investing in altcoin a couple of weeks ago. Recently, it's falling down. I know in time I will enjoy the return of my investment though.

I learn in internet every day i take 3 hour for  study in internet about crypto search in youtube in news in google in forum

I was seen this first time in facebook but iI ignored beacause I  thought this is one of the rampant scam activity online. But when my sister and I had a conversation she shared me about crypto currency and her experience earning from her daily activity. And from then I get interested filling up airdrop forms and now im doing trading.

One of my clients just asked me whether its legal or not in our country, and as a lawyer I realized that I did not the right answer to his question because I had not had a chance to deal with it. But my answer was "probably it is not regulated", because (maybe) the government also does not know about it yet (it remains unregulated but I am sure the government is already aware about this new business).

Afterwards, I started coming up with more and more news and updates on cryptocurrencies on my thread, so I decided that I had to learn more to stay tuned about the ongoing events. Then, it went as usual...I got into the market.  :D

first time in internet news  :)

When I was searching part time online jobs I came accross the topic and had to research on it to do the job perfectly

Initially, When I was in a process of doing a research for expanding inventory of my domain name reselling business, I came to know about Bitcoin/crypto and when I started exploring more about it, it was impressive and I immediately joined this forum for my business expectations  and to enhance my knowledge, trust me this place is more than enough to understand about crypo world, especially Bitcoin.

I first heard of cryptocurrency way back 2016, i didn't really understood concepts cos i paid less attention. Fews months ago i came across a friend who took the pain to expain some of the basic concepts to me and he introduced me to lots of WhatsApp groups and some websites, now I'm loving it!!

Heard the first word at 2012 about bitcoin, but I missed that and again in 2016 learnt about BTC from a friend and learned many things be researching

I developed  interest in learning Cryptocurrencies in Feb 2017 .  Opened an account in  Bitcointalk started reading various posts on various forums  . IN the beginning I focussed  on BitCoin read lot on Internet , saw many videos on you tube  understood  what Bitcoin is  what is Satoshi etc  how it works  , Block chain technology , learnt to create wallets and process to  buy, created my account on few exchanges .
Had a look at bitcoinwiki.org where I got answers to my queries . Had  a look on coinmarketcap.com to understand  other cryptocurrencies

Created and developed my  followers on Telegram ,twitter, Facebook, reddit etc . Followed  the crypto gurus and started commenting on various posts

Once I was  comfortable I applied for  AIRDROPS  and Bounty programs

The first time I know cryptocurrency was from telegram group. I don't know from where I got the link to the group, but from that group, i know about cryptocurrency

When I was drowned to neck with loans a friend of mine came to my rescue with cryptoz.

I learned it from a cousin of mine.He is a Hodler of bitcoins at first I didn't believe him but when he show me he withdraw money from crypto that's the time I start to join crypto world.

i have learned this through my friend, she introduced to me the basic information and then i did some research online to learn more information so that i can more knowledge.

a friend name zhongbencong

I came to know about crypto currency from one of my friend.He started to earn BTC via mining.He invested in BTC when it's cost was 60k dollar.

I was knocked down by bitcoin growth in 2017 via a source from my friend. I'm curious about bitcoin and involved in cryptocurrency. For me, cryptocurrrency is very difficult to understand but very interesting. I will continue to study and seek to improve my knowledge of cryptocurrrency.

Yes you can learn everything if you work hard and focus this subject.Now cryptocurrency is more popular and interested because people are easily earn money short time but learn to hard.THis forum help to know about crypto currency and learn and earn everthing.So first read there all post and comments and search on google or youtube related to crypto.you can find news and full details and update about crypto on https://cointelegraph.com/

I heard for it a couple of year ago when there was an whole magazine for PC dedicated to this topic really, from A to Z. I lend it to the colleague of mine who was at that time interested in it...and stupid us neither him or neither me invested in it  ??? Second time it was when Bitstamp become more and more popular and since CEO's and founders are from my country a lot of fuss was around it... Than I decided to take a more time to read about the whole thing of crypto and some time after I participated in first ICO and rest is history....

With colleague we still make jokes on this magazine and what would be if we would invest at that time...but it's easy to be smart now I guess  :P

I heard cryptocurrency last year from my relatives and i got interested.I tried to made an account and read some of the discussions here and i also ask my relative to help me understand and start bitcoin.

While having and online transactionn I came across this topic which caught my attention when I researched

Might be getting my years mixed up, but I actually first heard of BTC around 2013, when a colleague of mine talked about it with me because he actually knew some people involved in starting the whole thing up. Encouraged me to get into it, but of course I didn't really give it another thought (that was my once-in-a-lifetime moment, kind of like buying Apple or Google stock when it first started. Guess I blew it, haha).

Fast forward to 2017 where I'm a pretty active gambler and DFSer (Daily Fantasy Sports), more the former than the latter nowadays. Through online forums discovered the pros/cons of cypto gambling over fiat gambling and well, here I am. Have learned a lot about crypto this past year, but really have a long way to go.

Btcs have been the headlines for many days so how could it be unknown to me

I heard about it in 2009 but other things were happening in my life then so took no notice. I've only started properly researching it the last few months. This forum has a fountain of knowledge and check out some of the beginners guides available. It will take time but you will learn something new everyday.

I learnt crypto currency while I was at work.
My friend told me about bitcoin and I have no clue what he was talking about.
I was then introduced to bitcointalk and since then I learnt a lot.

First, i've heard about bitcoin through the News being headlined but didn't give any importance and interest on it until a friend of mind told me about this forum and shed some light about how to invest and earn money through bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. I never thought bitcoin had a big impact in me which change my life dramatically over the course of time.

By watching videos in internet

It was two years ago when I happened to read articles about startup fintech. At first, I had less interest and gave so little attention to the crypto news. Until I asked more info from a friend to enlighten me. I started to read about it and learned more, still keep reading, though :)

I have interested about this about 2 month. after this I have made little invest to lern traiting. so reading about crypto is best teacher ever  ::)

I didn't really remener but I think one of my bitcoiner friend help me to understand this topic

Im completely self taught and learning more and more everyday... my interest into crypto currencies and blockchain technology come from the dark web where I seen bitcoin being used on markets. I then began to research bitcoin and the fundamentals behind it. Since then i read about crypto everyday, from new ICOs to day trading. Everyday is a school day and and I must admit its been fun.

Keep reading, keep learning and most of all keep investing

Peace out
Onion_Azz

HackerNoon -- https://hackernoon.com
HackerNews -- https://news.ycombinator.com
r/CryptoCurrency -- https://reddit.com/r/cryptoCurrency/
Princeton cryptocurrency course -- http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/
Going to coinmarketcap and reading about every top coin -- https://coinmarketcap.com

This amazing blockchain/cryptocurrency reading list -- https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/

Reading everything by Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), Daniel Larimer (Steem), etc. Watching all the YouTube videos from the Ethereum Foundation.

I have a lot more, PM me and I can brain dump further, if interested.

I found out for the currency on YouTube, it was the end of 2016. Then I began to explore it myself and tell her friends.

I was first introduced to crypto in 2012. At the time I was just finishing university and didn't have the money to invest and to be honest at the time I was introduced to it, it didn't really seem like an asset you invest in it was more a service you would use. After drifting away I got back into it in 2014 and again spent night after night reading and watching videos on crypto and I was utterly enthralled. But again I didn't put any money in I just carried on learning about the subject. Obsessed over antonio antonopoluas a few times. Now I'm here 6 years after first hearing about bitcoin and 6months after investing for the first time and my addiction is only getting stronger. I genuinely believe this tech will change the world in the same way the internet did. We are 100% moving into a trustless future

A few friends started to talk about it. Then i started to learn more about it on internet.

learned crypto from a friend of mine , invested a small amount and gave us a paper wallet . saying one day it will grow in value

I learned about it from my friends and watching youtube videos.

I search for it and not knowing that my friend is a bitcoin fan. He teach me in some ways but not all of information was given. Until now I'm searching and learning more.

I learn crypto currency in social media like facebook , twitter there so many people posted about crypto currency  :)

First do your own research. Watch Youtube videos on how to start cryptocurrency and google will help also.
Keep reading, keep learning and it takes time to learn in cryptocurrency in fact you never stop learning.

a friend initially informed me about it and then there's this new work that i got into that involved cryptocurrencies and so i had to learn about it.  materials were given and i researched also by myself, reading through various writeups, watched various tutorial videos and what not.

First time I heard about Cryptocurrency was back when BTC price was about 20 cents.

I was thinking that this is another useless internet thing and forgot about it.  ;D

But look at it now.

When BTC hit 300 EUR I started reading blogs, news about it. Just by reading and learning everyday.

A friend Share this to me...then as Usual GOOGLE!! then I learned it...its important to be Literate!!

Social Media is a Big Help to learn Crypto currency.. Youtube is the best... alot of Crypto Enthusiast wants to share thier knowledge. You can also post some comments with them.

First heard of it back in 2009. But didn't pay that much attention to it. Boy things have changed.

YouTube was my initial go to place for information. As my understanding grew, I relied on it less, as everyone (almost everyone) is shilling for their own benefit.

I heard many times from friends and friends, then I started to see on the Internet, and only after that I began to study gradually the theme of cryptology ..

I learnt about crypto currencies from blog posts,I was searching for legit ways to make money online and stumbled upon it,it piqued my interest and so I decided to learn more.. It's one if the best decisions I ever made in my life

I heard it from my best friend, telling good things and bad things about it and I got an interest for it. And my friend referred this site to me.

Computers is my job.So i heard very soon about bitcoin and about 6 years ago i thought i should buy some for fun but i didn't (what a mistake).

About 1 year ago a cousin of mine talked to me about the potentials of crypto currencies and i gave a look to the crypto space once more and was astonished from what i missed.

From then and on i started to learn using solely the internet as source of knowledge.

How did I learn cryptocurrency? With help of the right vocab!  :D
https://medium.com/@Pecunio/crypto-vocab-for-everyday-use-954a9231a85f

Besides that, a lot of Youtube and even more Reddit and of course Bitcointalk threads.
Best is the create a own file where to save all the links.

From a good friend. Though, i have earn anything from it but someday i gonna earn. I am keen to know all about it.

I have first learned it on the news and online as bitcoin has become hyped due to its drastic increase in value and how a lot of people have been posting in social media that one should start investing on the cryptocurrency as early as possible since price is still relatively low. Eventually, out of curiousity, I researched about it and have learned a lot on how to use it especially in trading and investing and its corresponding pros and cons as an alternative for the currency that we use in our respective countries.

I first learned about Bitcoin from a friend. Of course, I immediately did not believe because it seems impossible. He began to explain to me what this coin is and how it works and I was very interested. Gradually, I began to study the crypto currency. I still study and learn everything I can about how the cryptocurrency system works. ;)

I first learned it to my friend who introduced me here in this forum. Then I continue searching in the google and read its history in wikipedia.
There are many websites you can check the history of bitcoin like 99bitcoins.com and investopedia.com. It is better to understand the history of what you involved in like bitcoin and if you have any queries, you can get it here in bitcointalk.org.

 I just learned about crypto last year and started to even participate in bitcointalk to learn more but was not really that interested then. When the news once again hit me, I started to learn again about btc and read here in the forum..

My friend told me about crypto currency a year ago, so i took the opportunity and did some research on crypto currency and blockchain technology to learn more about it.knowing it will help me a lot.

First saw it on news or maybe article. But recently started to learn about it in here and some other platforms.

Maybe its my destiny to learn bitcoin to help me in all my needs. 2014 im so active in money making,  paid to click, paid to view advertisent and many more,  but the amount i earn from it is not enough to provide  our needs so i decided to search for another way to earn and bitcoin came to my life.

I learned about crypto currency online when I started researching blockchain for a project I'm working on.

I first read articles about bitcoin and its effect w/ the banking society,my cousin introduce the bitcoin coin to me and he create account,sheets and telegram for me...

First from a few friends in cryptos, then watching various YouTube video, finally applying some common sense.

I learned from friend.

I learned it from family member.

I just learned in social media, i just read and read about crypto currency, until i got the true meaning and how to get my own crypto, and how cryptocurrency exchange it into cash, im also ask question  regarding cryptocurrency to the people i know were in the field of cryptos.

I learn Bitcoin BTC through my sister she encourage me to join bitcoin because she explained to me that in can help me in the near future using digital money. I can say that bitcoin help my sister a lot it help her paying bills supporting the needs of our family thats why i want to learn more and get a lot of knowledge about this bitcoin.

My cuz has known about and mentioned for years.He has nice things.

It depends which part of crypto.

- how the basics of crypto work
Plenty of youtube video's out there.

- how to trade crypto's
Also youtube, but also reading lots of articles.

- how to buy crypto's
If you have friends that can show you the way, it helps. Most sites are pretty easy to use so you can learn it by doing.

- how to lose money from crypto's
Learning by doing unfortunately..lol