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Title: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: brows on October 11, 2013, 02:27:09 PM
I heard about it from an article about Silk Road a few years ago. I thought it was crazy that they could sell drugs online somehow, but honestly did not think much about the currency used. I promptly forgot about all of it until a couple years later when a good friend excitedly expounded on the virtues of Bitcoin and his investment in it, and I was like "Isn't what people use to buy drugs with online?". I quickly discovered that it went way way way beyond that. Now I am mining altcoins and looking forward to seeing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies' futures unfold. I am interested in other people's stories, so I thought this would be a good noob post.


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: chandrakant on October 11, 2013, 02:36:45 PM
Actually i came across bitcoin about 2 years ago. At that time i was like who the hell will but this virtual currency shit lol
And i just use to close the tab whenever i camw across it again at that time.
About 2 weeks ago i saw an article about bitcons in newspaper & how it made few guys rich. I mean really very very rich.
That moment i was like "shit i should have searched more about bitcoin that time & should have mined some"
But my bad luck.
Anyways  ;D


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: MoneyGod on October 11, 2013, 08:06:14 PM
I hear about this few months ago as Liberty Reserve collapse and I was in searching for new work as in google search I have this and now enjoying this very good and hope I can enjoy this for long time and nothing happen like Liberty Reserve to this


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: Welsh on October 11, 2013, 09:09:50 PM
I think I was searching up on the idea of a virtual currency back a couple of years ago.


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: faiza1990 on October 11, 2013, 09:15:08 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: hromobiti on October 11, 2013, 09:19:16 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Yes, the free faucets gave more these days, but USD/BTC was 10x less.
Now it is tough to get 1BTC from free faucets and sites 


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: faiza1990 on October 11, 2013, 09:28:38 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Yes, the free faucets gave more these days, but USD/BTC was 10x less.
Now it is tough to get 1BTC from free faucets and sites 

but still person like me doing this and have something to cheers because cannot has too much and just doing full time job for signature and some free faucets and sites giving me as I need


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: Welsh on October 11, 2013, 09:30:28 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Yes, the free faucets gave more these days, but USD/BTC was 10x less.
Now it is tough to get 1BTC from free faucets and sites  

but still person like me doing this and have something to cheers because cannot has too much and just doing full time job for signature and some free faucets and sites giving me as I need


I thought you were registered way before then. Must of mistaken you for someone else.


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: faiza1990 on October 11, 2013, 09:47:00 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Yes, the free faucets gave more these days, but USD/BTC was 10x less.
Now it is tough to get 1BTC from free faucets and sites 

but still person like me doing this and have something to cheers because cannot has too much and just doing full time job for signature and some free faucets and sites giving me as I need


I thought you were registered way before then. Must of mistaken you for someone else.

not understand what you want to say please some explain this one


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: Mike Christ on October 11, 2013, 09:49:38 PM
Max Keiser was all like "my bitcoins are awesome" and I was all like "what's a bitcoin?"

So I guess you could say RT


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: poelling92 on October 11, 2013, 09:53:07 PM
I first read about BTC on one Blog, early 2013, so if you blogging, include article about Bitcoin...


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: Welsh on October 11, 2013, 09:54:03 PM
I hear about this in January 2013 but never buy from any where all done by free faucets and sites  ;D


Yes, the free faucets gave more these days, but USD/BTC was 10x less.
Now it is tough to get 1BTC from free faucets and sites  

but still person like me doing this and have something to cheers because cannot has too much and just doing full time job for signature and some free faucets and sites giving me as I need


I thought you were registered way before then. Must of mistaken you for someone else.

not understand what you want to say please some explain this one



I thought you were in the Bitcoin game a lot longer. I thought you registered your account last year and wasn't active. It must be someone who has a similar username.


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: marcotheminer on October 11, 2013, 10:00:31 PM
My brother introduced me to bitcoins after the major spike in value and crash (increasing popularity aswell).

I didnt really follow it until around a month ago, since when ive been scraping faucets and gambling, seeing if I can be apart of the craze :)


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: fattypig on October 12, 2013, 02:25:55 AM
Online news, they were explaining about how bitcoin works...


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: berupter on October 12, 2013, 05:44:38 AM
I might have read an article about the Winlevoss brothers a few years ago (supposedly they own a little fortune in bit coins) but I never gave this much attention. I remember hearing about virtual currency when I played Second Life for the first time. I almost bought some Linden dollars myself  :D


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: cowandtea on October 12, 2013, 12:39:44 PM
From the internet somewhere when Thailand was banned from using Bitcoin.


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: balanghai on October 12, 2013, 12:45:11 PM
I saw it in cable that one dude lost his password and lost worth $20,000 of bitcoin and that was around 2010 and I regret that I didn't mind it right away. If I could have started earlier I could be running few BFL already now.  ;D


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: easynote on October 12, 2013, 12:53:40 PM
I saw in a research on internet... Nothing special :)


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: MakeBelieve on October 12, 2013, 01:07:26 PM
I saw in a research on internet... Nothing special :)


Awesome! How long ago?


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: hellfrozenow on October 12, 2013, 01:50:12 PM
I saw it in cable that one dude lost his password and lost worth $20,000 of bitcoin and that was around 2010 and I regret that I didn't mind it right away. If I could have started earlier I could be running few BFL already now.  ;D


Are you kidding man ? BFL was the worst investment you could have done. So it saved you from troubles  :)


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: newguy211 on October 13, 2013, 05:10:06 AM
StumbleUpon!


Title: Re: How did you first hear about Bitcoin?
Post by: dzindra on October 13, 2013, 01:52:16 PM
When security researches discovered some virus which stole wallets and used infected PCs as miners :]