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I was reading up on lulzsec hacks a few months ago and there site said they accepted Bitcoin donations...it all started with a google search from there

Exactly the same for me...

Read about it on Ars Technica.

I'm a bored retired software engineer looking for something interesting to fill my twilight years.

After perusing all the various open source software projects available on the Internets, I decided Bitcoin was the most interesting, and the most likely to cause disruptive change to the world as we know it.

Same here. About 2 months ago, max, I either caught a glimpse of the word Bitcoin on Google News or saw a link/article on some website. I Google Bitcoin, and for the next two days I read my ass off before becoming hooked and a believer. With the exception of a couple posts on a poker forum, I've never engulfed myself in this type of medium before, although I've read my fair share of posts covering a myriad of topics. I'm a Twitter guy, not doing much on Facebook and nothing with MySpace, although I'm exploring Google+. I was 16 years old when I caught my first chicken and... Oops! Wrong forum. (I hope you folks enjoy my humorous posts as well as the ones that add value to this fine community--excluding those MF'in TROLLS)

https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10100.msg145613#msg145613 (https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10100.msg145613#msg145613)

A friend of mine told me about it, I spent a good 1 week solid (not sleeping till 4am) reading up and researching bitcoin, from the forum to the wiki.

It's kind of taken over my life since then   :D

A coworker sent an email regarding Bitcoin to everyone in the office month and a half ago. The market was around $7.00.

"whats trending", CBS

i saw a thread in a forum about some individuals that got busted by the police for Bitcoin mining.
It was a mistake, the police thought they were growing pot.

Slashdot article stating Bitcoin exchange was trading at 1BTC to $1

I read the infamous "Silk Road" article on Gizmodo.  Not so interested in the drugs, but the BTC part struck me as interesting.

^ This  ;D  Happened for me in early May. Would that it were a couple months prior, but how fortunate that it was not a couple months later!

Wow I'm glad I'm not the only one who turned into full bitcoin addict after hearing about it.

I found out about it from someones paper that blew on the floor in a coffee shop in new orleans.  never really registered.  Then someone posted about it on Above Top Secret.  It got a negative response, but not from me.  Been hooked ever since.

Now this is a story
all about how my life
got twisted upside down
and id like to take a minute
just sit right there
ill tell you how i became a creator
of a currency called Bitcoin

In west Japan
born and raised
on the playground my momma said
most of my days
chilling out, maxing
and relaxing all cool
and all mining some hashes
outside of school
when a couple of bankers
they were up to no good
started printing fiat in our neighborhood
i got in one little bubble and my mom got scared
she said your moving
your fiat in to bitcoins

i whisted for a server and when it came near
the license plate said MtGox
and had bugs in the server
if anything i could say that this server was rare
but i thought nah, forget it
yo trade some coin!

i-pulled- up tp a exchange about seven or eight
i yelled to the Gox yo home, hack you later
looked at my kingdom i was finally there
to sit on my throne as the prince of Bitcoin

Heard about it in an IRC chat a few months ago.

Hacker News in May.

I was searching for a way to exchange my cpu cycles into money.. something like fold@home and other BOINC projects. firs i hit the www.cpushare.com which was a good idea until it got closed for legla issue and i guess most of you here did not even hear about it. then from a rented server broweser (data center in uk) i searched again and i hit bitcoin (i do not remember articles or the forum).

The funny this is that i wasted like 100 btc in the first 2 months .. playing with it. (mostly of lost wallet files) as i did not think it will actually have any value back that day. :D

i found out about it when bitcoin started to flood every computer-related forum

Heard about it on the Hive45 podcast in mid-late may. Did some tireless reading. Bought in at $29.50 (damn, now i could get almost triple the coins!)

Back in November/December I asked on the finance stackexchange if anyone knew of any online monetary systems, and unfortunately no one there knew of bitcoin yet.

July 2010 slashdot posting.
I did a little CPU mining, but quit because the bitcoin port conflicted with vmware stuff I was running.. grr.
If only I'd been mining the whole year.

I heard about bitcoin back when each bitcoin was worth like .01 and when a person with a dual core laptop CPU would generate coins weekly. I heard about bitcoins on an e-currency blog. I was using Liberty Reserve and Pecunix a lot at the time.

I read an article on CNBC about the Bitcoin bubble after it happened.

2+2 poker forum, when full tilt and pokerstars got shut down...
someone mentioned bitcoin and I had to check it out (on google)

that's how I fell in love :)

/. , sometime in April or May.

Lifehacker in May.  Dorked around reading about it while it was at $7/BTC and then it took off along with the difficulty level!

I was browsing on another forum and someone posted if anyone heard of bitcoin. They posted the whitepaper which I read the first few pages. First thing I thought when I read it, "this is gonna be huge."

Read about it in swedish magazine Fokus (article in swedish here (http://www.fokus.se/2011/06/slar-mynt-pa-internet)).

backtrack forum  ;D

ditto - that /. thread.

then i forgot about it, after mining - i think - two blocks.  can't find 'em, dammit - i go through operating systems like crap through a goose...

but when the google guy released his android app in march, it clicked for me and i've been a miner 49er ever since.

Funny you should say that..  I mined exactly 2 blocks back then.  Wasn't til June this year that bitcoin hit my radar.. and those coins were suddenly more interesting.  It wasn't that I didn't think bitcoin would be interesting when the value was low..  I was just completely surprised (as I guess many have been) by the rate of change as far as mining difficulty and value and general buzz.

technologyreview.com the MIT science shitbag ad-filled sci/tech site. Good article, but ruined by endless American style ads and corporate promos.
MIT shame on your disgusting harlotry and averice!

twitter is an info window to me...

http://slashdot.org (http://slashdot.org)

This June 1 2011 article (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/silkroad/) in Wired about Silk Road. I got instantly hooked (not on the drug part).

Same here.  The 'Bitcoin hits version 0.3' story.  I had some trouble getting started too (TOR/privoxy/blockcontrol related) but stuck with it and generated 5 blocks in a few months with one core of my Intel Atom D510 (the other was F@H).  As with many of the people here in June I 'bought into the hype' and bought some BTC at bitcoinmarket while the value was at an all-time high of 0.012 USD per BTC! (up from 0.008 USD the previous day).  I continued to buy as the price surged upwards to but no longer had the stomach for it when it hit 0.05 USD per BTC.

I'd forgotten about BTC for a good number of months and was reminded of it in April (I think by a friend that I'd given 150 BTC to to get him started) and was totally shocked by the market value.

My favourite bit of my story is when I accidentally entered the total USD I was willing to pay for a 200 BTC sell order but was supposed to enter the price per BTC and my order ended up being filled by the system at a ridiculous 4.5 USD per BTC!  Fortunately, Dustin was able to reverse this 200-times market value bid for me.

After I was denied my right to donate to Julian Assange, I searched desperately for a long-term solution.

I'm an amateur stock/option trader, and I check Yahoo Finance every morning. There was a story on Bitcoin in the top headlines section, must have been in early June because it was right before the bubble.

That story really struck me, and I spent the next week reading all about it. Because I wasn't ready to jump all the way in, I missed the bubble run up to $30/BTC and subsequent crash. My cost basis is currently between $14 and $15/BTC.

I've become a little obsessed with mining, but really it's just an excuse for me to learn about building computers and how to use Linux.

What seems obvious now to me is that the mining and trading communities for Bitcoin have seen a lot of development and maturing. Now it's time for the Bitcoin economy and commerce community to really start developing. Hard to see Bitcoin being successful without that. Anyway, that's my two cents.

I saw an interview of therealplato on http://corbettreport.com - the best news analysis on the planet (seriously)