Bitcoin Forum

I just wanted to ask anyone that wants to answer.  :D

1. When was the first time you heard about Bitcoin?

2. When you did hear about Bitcoin was it good things (Alpaca Socks) or bad things (Silk Road)?

Thanks for all those that reply. I'm trying to gather some information for my website.  ;D

1. blog
2. never considered bitcoin as "good things".

I heard about bitcoins through the major media outlets and have just started to look into it. Seems very interesting and something that might be worthwhile to look into for investing. I am definitely in the infancy stage of knowledge, but I do plan on dedicating some of time time into learning about it. I have heard mixed reactions to bitcoins, but overall I feel that anything that is new and changes perception of such a cornerstone to societies; then of course people are going to be apprehensive about it. However, if you get into it early enough, the payoff could be huge.

1. From a friend, who asked me if I was mining (of course I wasn't), over a year ago.
2. Rather neutral, he considered it a new trend among computer enthusiasts.

I found bitcoin in 2010 for when I was searching for paypal alternatives but did nothing to acquired it until march 2013. Because at the time I found bitcoin very few uses it.

Heard about it fairly recently, from various blogs. Seemed worth looking into, although it seems to have its share of both good and bad.

I had heard about it a couple years ago. No good or bad things. Heard about the concept of it and never acted on it til just this past year. Been going at it ever since.

1. 2011 or something was the first thing I heard about it, but it wasn't until 2013 I actually looked into it and started getting my first (milli) bitcoins.
2. In 2011 a friend mentioned you could mine it (he said it wasn't profitable though :(), in 2013 I think it was a mix of Silk Road and people becoming millionaires in mainstream media that caught my attention

I heard about bitcoin from my friend January begining of this year,

There is no need to give more importance because its like other currency, that's all you can earn it from other ways and exchange it to bitcoin if you want

heard about it first time in somewhere in middle of 2011 ... never took it seriously just ignored it like all other online scam..! then I saw many of my online friends and fellow freelancers working for/with bitcoin..! A year ago a friend was offering me some 30-40$/btc and that was the time i started to look into it seriously , but when i decided to jump into it, it was way up and rise to over 1000$.

TLDR:
1.: Online Friends
2.: Late 2013

2011 - but started using from 2013 :P

Had heard through news, when hacker had stolen many btcs from exchange :P

I heard bitcoin from a friend in 2012. I mine some bitcoins but sold it all before 2013.

I heard about Bitcoin in about Jan 2010. A mate was mining it on his home PC. I never bothered because I like playing games on mine :/

I had a reminder again about it in early 2012 when another friend bought some at about (I think) $4 each. He invested $1000, and I laughed until I as blue in the face at him. Again, decided not to bother with it as I dismissed it as a fad, needless to say without bothering to read a single article to back this opinion up.

Who looks like the muppet now? :P

Rit.

I first heard about it before the Silk Road hit the media, but didn't pay much attention to it.  I would hear about it here and there every now and then and ask some friends (who had no clue what it was).  Finally with the Mt. Gox story I started really looking into it.

I think I first heard about it when it was around 200 dollars, and it was neutral I guess.

Heard it from a friend who was currently quite into the concept, and I suppose he tried to give me a good impression of it, although I was very skeptical and even went as far as to mock him for spending time on it. Today, lets say, I realize I was a fool, and should've invested all my money into this.

Damn.

Im not new but im new to forum

The first time I heard about Bitcoin was in 2010 but I really didn't pay any attention to it. And everyday since I've been kicking myself for not buying a couple hundreds. I thought it was just a shiny object or a new fad that would just fizzle out eventually. Much like a new toy for the bored geeks.

1. 2012, when I was browsing the BOINC Message board.
2. Quite neutral IMO.

Only heard about bitcoin today

1.friends
2.I heard they are used in trading anonymously and replacing LR so i jumped into bitcoins !! nothing bad nothing good   :)

1. mid-2013
2. Very negative (ponzi, scam, bubble, drugs, etc.)

Quite one year ago, in the 80-100$ btc era, pre silk-road, i've started mining by fun and i don't expect to become rich with this busines... I keep my eyes open to see if something good will come and to try to stay away from fraud, but it's an hard game...

Though I'm not new, I heard about it around 2011 or 2010, not really sure. I just was searching through the net and well, I don't really remember. I heard good things first and the bad ones once I started digging a little deeper.

1. Like In august something not sure,

2. Bitcoin team :)

Want to participate mate;D

1. Just say it in some adds banner

2. Money that is not worth it ;D

Hi friend,
I am a new comer for this site.

1. 2014-02-24

2. 2014-03-28. bad things

1. This year I believe?
2. I don't know if it was good or bad, but it was the news that they had "discovered" the Bitcoin creator.

Definitely bad news, because they were wrong and the poor guy wasn't left alone for a while.

1. from a close friend
2. silk road was one of the biggest stories of the time when i first heard of bitcoin..but negativity and exploitations of innovative ideas are common in infancy.... and i didnt let media brainwash me to thinking bitcoin is all drug-dealers and criminals ::)... in my opinion those elements will always exist and even more so if mainstream adoption is reached

hi
i'm completly new to bitcoin.
i heard of it not long time ago from a friend of mine thar is a miner and explained me the concept.
at first it wasn't easy to understand but i'm beggining to do so.

i myself is starting to mine now that i unserstood what is a .bat file lol

but i learn a lot from your answers and this site is great to that

1. Late 2013, when the price started to rise crazily.
2. Pretty bad (bubble and ponzi)

it's true that it can be used to do bad things but so real money so, i guess that overall is a good thing.
innovative and mostly, without the grips of wall street and buddys.
more and more people are coming to this crypto world and that will give stability and worth not only to bitcoin but to all the others also...

that idea worth a lot and the anonimity of it is also great.