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Just curious on knowing how everyone got their first bitcoin! I heard about bitcoin from watching a documentary on Drugs then they mentioned something about SR and bitcoin. I looked up bitcoin and automatically became hooked on the idea.

The first time I ever got a bitcoin was from a stranger on a youtube video. He sent me 2 btc when they were worth 6 or 7 dollars.  ;D

IIRC, someone was giving away some fraction of a BTC for cell phone numbers.  I gave him mine and he dutifully sent some BTC.  I figured that I would not have the number forever as T-Mobile did not service the location I was planning to move to.  Not long after that I bought a whole one on e-bay.  I had just gotten bitcoind to compile and wanted something to play around with.  The most advertised faucet (Gavin's IIRC) was dry since this would have been during/after the run-up to $30-ish in 2011.

school tuition refund => chase => dwolla => Tibanne Co Ltd. => BTC :)

mining 3LTC
then trading it in early 2012 when litecoin was fluctuating rapidly between 1c and 2c

dang i missed those days of rapid price movements, i turned 3LTC into 152LTC  (about 0.18BTC) in 3 days then soon after the price of LTC went from 0.002 to 0.005 and i was feeling top of the world.. and had my first BTC

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but now the price has stabilised with maybe a 1% movement if timed right per day.... dang i miss the volitility

roger ver gave me my first bitcoin, i was ordering 2 casacius bitcoins from him and at the time he had a special for 5 percent of the total order back in bitcoin.  The offer was for his memoryonly but i didn't realize that and sent him a bitcoin address. He said lol i can't give you five percent back in bitcoins when you are buying bitcoins but here is one bitcoin so you can now have one.  they were roughly 2.37 each at the time.  Moral of the story, Roger Ver is kickass.

Got 5 BTC free from Gavins faucet. Then I sent them back later after I purchased some  :)

Bought on exchange.

Lost my money to a scammer here trying to buy my first BTC. I was more careful the second time and bought it from sublime5447 on May 2013.

Heard about Bitcoin when the difficulty was still under 100,000.  I mined 1 BTC/day with a single graphics card for a short period of time.  Deepbit, guiminer... ah, the memories.

Heard about SR and the dark web; curiosity led me into downloading tor and having a look at what was there.

I saw that everything was priced in Btc, that got me doing some research and discovering more and more.

bought my first big order of bitcoin back in 2011

Ah yes.  I started out by reading documentation which was only months old, but already completely obsolete (unbeknownst to me.)  bitcoind had a CPU miner built in and I used it.  I got kicked out of several mining pools for 'inefficiency' in short order before I fully comprehended what was going on.

So, I guess technically I got my first (tiny fraction of a) bitcoin in this manner, but it was such a tiny fraction that I didn't even bother to try to transfer it.  I was paranoid about the block chain size from early on in my research on Bitcoin.  I've always tried to avoid piss-ant transactions on general principle.  A hold-over from needing to pay attention to resources from my exposure to computers in the mid 80's I suppose.

someone actually gave me one.

Mined on eligius and slush pools with a HD 6850 few weeks before the 2011 bubble burst.

Bought on exchange.

Bought from BTC-e.  :D

bought on britcoin before it turned into intersango, and subsequently died.

Will

I sent 1000 DKK (175 USD) to mtgox :)

Bitcoin Faucet

I read about bitcoin in one spanish economic forum. I got interested because I heard about it in 2009.

mined it on an ati 4850

Sold my 360 on bitmit. Best thing I ever did

I don't want to talk about it.

 ;D ;D bitcoin faucet ....lol

I MINED THAT BITC_oin!  ;D

Bitcoin Faucet...then I started mining the old fashion way...cpu...

OP you should make this a poll. Could be really interesting.

These could be the choices:

• online exchange
• personal exchange
• mining
• faucet
• loan
• friend

Don't forget:

• scam
• theft
• government raid

Somebody offered me one as payment. I initially didn't take it. But then I decided I wanted it so I came back later. And he was nice enough to still do the deal, even though the BTC price had gone somewhat upward :)

I got it with LTC first at around 30+ and then exchanged it to BTC and then from there trading and it is increasing. Still learning with the trading though.

In 2011 april I got my first 0.05 BTC from the bitcoin faucet that Gavin administered.

I have my first btc from dailybitcoins and its very nice to have this still having some good from them

Solo mining a block with my quadcore cpu.
Too bad I spent almost all 50 coins to Bitcoin lottery or something like that.

Well, early adopter issues I guess...

Bought it.

I owned my first bitcoin by posting on one TV Game forum, get then get reward ;D by luck draw

Someone gived me my first BitCoin :P

BTC = faucet
XPM = Mined it from DigitalOcean* then exchanged it to BTC.

*before they started permabanning miners from "abusing"  their service.

$200 cash to a stranger -> liberty reserve -> mtgox -> 20BTC

read about it in an online magazine 2011 about mtgox. i took some cash and sent it to tokyo. had no clue, had no one to talk about it, didn´t know this forum. got 100 btc just before bubble. after 2011 bubble and mtgox got hacked i couldn´t access my account anymore and thought this was a scam and i was stupid enough to throw money in. i erased everything, forgot all about it.
turned into a believer when in march this year someone told me he quit his job and makes a living through mining bitcoin. bitcoin ?? that japanese scam ? he showed me the price. my 100 btc had almost 10 folded. dammned, i had erased everything. mtgox customer service sorted it within 20 min. 

Did you get your bitcoins back from Gox?

Mined with GPU's, took some freebies on this forum.
Then spent it on game coupons and sold those on eBay


By the way one game coupon is left, Crysis 3. Will sell for 0.04btc, bought it for 0.005.

I'd like to know that too. Back in 2011 after the hack, the mtgox account recovery process asked for some detailed information like IP addresses and exact balances, not something that could be sorted out in 20 minutes.

i did send an email to customer service. they answered within 5 min, told me i just needed username, account number and password to access my coins. i had no clue, thrown it all into the garbage bin 2 years before. no chance.
i decided it was worth to write them a lenghty email with all the information i recalled (like bank account, bank adress, month of purchase, name, adress, email, - i had to guess all of this, since i had moved, held accounts with sevral banks and didn´t really know which i was using. on the other hand, it was just one transaction and i knew it was 100 btc.) must have guessed correctly since gox customer service supplied me with my account details and let me reset password - maybe it took an hour and not just 20 min. - the 100 btc were still sitting there untouched.
i was impressed with gox.

some was sent to me 0.00025 BTC Faucet

Bought 4 Bitcoins 28th Sep 2012 price was ~ $15 each Bitcoin

Mined in early 2011 with an AMD GPU.  :)

Got my first Bitcoin from Middlecoin.com, best way to get Bitcoin mining with GPU.

mined myself, when using a single GPU would grant one block per day :) too bad I wasted it all on namecoins.

Just sell the goddamn namecoins. You should have am absolute ton of NMC now, if you could have mined a block a day for BTC.

First 'bitcoins' I got were from reddit karma exchange.

met a guy at a coffee shop..got some BTC and some good info as well

#bitcoin-otc just over a year ago

met a guy on the street handed him 100 bucks and received 10 BTC...woo

A friend told me about it and bought a bitcoin and then started mining with great success, but have sold most of my bitcoin mining gear due to diff increase but I'm still mining LTC :)