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When you decided to go into the Bitcoins, how hard was it for you to get some bitcoins for yourself?

When i first wanted to buy some it just seemed like a waste of time. If i have a debit card why can't i just create an account on a exchange and buy some there and then ? it didn't seem worth the time to have to go through verification and then wire the money etc, just so that i could purchase a currency had so few uses at the time. Of course now i know investing then would have been well worth it, but like they say hindsight's 20/20.

Am in the same situation as well. I regret not having jumped on the bandwagon earlier. I'm still trying to get my first full BTC.

Really easy. I used my CC :P

Easy enough, I mined it with Nvidia 9600GT back in 2010 :)

Buying wasn't the difficult part, the difficult part was researching if there are any big flaws or if it's just a scam.
Took quite a while until I got enough answers to all my questions.

Not even there yet after almost a month. I haven't bought any bitcoins for real cash, though.

I have started mining PTS a few days ago, but now difficulty is to high for my PC. After changing them to BTC I have about 0,3btc.   :D

I bought it with PayPal from some exchangers. So it was pretty easy.

I still have to earn my first bitcoin :D

Bitinstant was still up when I first got interested, so it was easy as going up to Walmart and sending a Moneygram

As easy as 1 - 2 - 3.
Bought 3 bitcoins for $85 USD each, lost all of them gambling, then i sold 0.23 when the price was at like $70 USD lol.

Bought them on an exchange

It was super painful but I am now glad I persisted

Really easy if I'd tried. Payouts from faucets and earn bitcoin sites were much higher. To bad I didn't use them…  :'(

Sending money to exchange was not the easiest thing, but mission accomplished. Wish here is Bitcoin ATM, would be easier... but little troubles is ok for us, early adopters  :)

I still haven't made my first one.

Haven't made my first BTC yet, currently at .08 mining.

Just need to figure out what pool will give me the best payout for 20 GHs. So far bitparking seems to do well, as did slush.

I'm newish to bitcoin so it's is just finding a place to park the miners and let them do their work.

Michael

I'm still working on myfirst BTC ;)

one point should be clear was it optained using your money or else;
as for me a new person to the whole idea i didn't buy any and not even close to get my 1st btc.
trying hard and will accept any help too.

From a give away. However it was only like 0.25 mBTC. I think its on my old computer!

I obtained my first 0.65BTC from mining with 2 gpu's so it wasn't easy at all  :P :P

I GPU mined bit when difficulty still under 3 million  ;)
Good times

Still working , hopefully will get in few days...

Recent purchase on ebay.

Bought my first 0.25 BTC from Virwerx for like a 100 bucks, its worth 176 now. Wish I had bought much more back then!!

Got quickly some mBTC from free faucets. This was my first BTC. I lost these gambling  :)

I am still working on my first bitcoin  ;)

I got my first two bitcoins really easily my brother just gave them to me.

It was easy! I bought 5 btc for 13 usd each! :)

I wish I would have known about bitcoin back when it first started. I would have invested about 5 grand usd into it and be sitting pretty now.

Michael

I bought it for 750$    :-\

Yeah, had I only known that it would rise that much I'd bought more!

still working on making one...seems like a titanic task now...silly me was laughing at bitcoin in 2009 when it launched

selling on bitmit in 2012 when it was $15 a bitcoin

I just got into bitcoin about the beginning of November. I started small, got 4 usb erupters, and bounced around pools trying to find one I liked.

Once I figured out I actually wanted to do this I bought 2 v2 blades and sold my 4 usb erupters.

Now, if I would have put the blades on bitminter and left them there I would have made a little more, but I minded zeta for a few days, uno, for a few, then went to bitparking. I made .03 on bitparking but it took 56 hours.

Now, I'm back on bitminter and staying.

It is hard to see the bigger picture when you start out, but in three weeks I made 65 usd. Doesn't seem like much, and definitely no where near roi on the blades, but I have bigger plans.

I remember when bitcoin came out, I laughed then, I'm weeping now. Sad part is I'm in IT, I should have known better. First Google, now this, damn I suck at investing. Back to the coal mines for me, lol

Michael

Looks like it's gonna be a major mission for me now. :D

also wanted to get some usb eruptors and one blade, but some shit happened and don't have the cash i need for them anymore

Luckily, I went into Bitcoins 2011. It took a bank transfer to Mt.Gox, a few days, and then I had a whole lot.

It was fairly easy, I bought it from my friend for cash :)

Although I now kind of regret watching the show from the sidelines for too long. But I was still lucky enough to get on board before this recent rise in value.

I still trying get my first 1 BTC.

Bought online, though I first had to exchange my currency to EUR:P

I started originally back in 2010/2011, but lost interest after a few months and traded away all my coin, boy do i wish i still had that wallet full of BTC now. I think it took me just over a week to get my first one, even though diff was way lower, The hardware and software had not matured much, so that was a pain(much like some of the startup alt-coins now).

Now its nearly impossible to get any ROI without significant capital investment to start mining BTC from scratch, so I spend most of time looking for the next big thing.

This time i tell myself not to loose interest, or at least hold on to my coin this time around. Hindsight = 20/20 :)

Xornof

P.S. - long time lurker, first actual post here... lol

So, how many millionaires do we have here already? haha

I'm sure there are... :D

Quite easy... mined it in half a day with ATI 5970 :p

Not too difficult, took about 4 days as I was getting about 0.25 btc/day from 4 x 5870, this was a while ago just before ASIC's arrived

I remember these days, wish I mined overnight with my GPU  :(
But sleeping well was more important

It took long enough... about an hour of mining with my old Radeon HD 5770 back in 2011. I sold it, and hundreds like it, for around $3.50 a piece. I coulda been a millionaire too ;)

I bought it from someone at LocalBitcoins for $143. So it was easy.

Havent got 1 yet :(

Not there yet, so it is not that easy.

Bought my first coin from Bitfloor -- easy enough.

Then they shut down and kept more of my fiat for several months.

This seems to be quite common with BTC. People like to run away with your money.

Its not only with bitcoin its common in every investment. People have the tendency to get quick gains by frauding others.

havn't got one yet.