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I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap :'(

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

I thought the bitcoin was started back in 2009?

I heard of it in 98, seems 96 is how far back you should look ;)

I heard it beginning of this year when the price surge...

Around the price increase and I wanted to get into mining, which I did.

Seems like the blockchain disagrees with you

http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

are you sure bitcoin started in 1998 or 1996? I always though its 3-4 years ago..

I believe it's conception was '96-'98.. and the block chain is not THE definative blockchain, for there was a time the blockchain website, which is only a copy, did not exist, whilst bitcoin's were being given away free the way it should be, starting at 1 per hour, that went down to 0.5 per hour, I left the net for a while, came back, and suddenly I gotta download some blockchain crap, which does not have my first 3 address's, or my kid's wallet address's in it, because they were created before the current blockchain. Beat that.. when I joined here, I was already 2 years mining.

Edit, seems I am forgetting what century I'm in, make those years after the end of the 90's pmsl...

But yup, '96-98 had something to do with bitcoin's creation..

First time that I've heard something about bitcoin was two years ago, but i considered it ridicolous because i knew a bit about it  >:( >:( >:(

I saw a YouTube video on Bitcoin in early 2013.  I crashed (literally) in March of 2013 and had temporary short term amnesia.  I woke up in a hospital and got my iPad and started trying to find that same video again to no avail.  

I eventually did find that YouTube video like a year later and I realized why I hadn't been able to find it.  In my mind it was Hank Green talking about Bitcoin but when I rediscovered the video it was an unknown person talking about Bitcoin.  In fact I din't even realize it was the same video until the very end when he host said "you can't turn Bitcoin into a watch."

But that's not the whole story.  In 2010 and 2011 I know I was specifically going online to find alternative ways of making money like trading horse racing odds or gold farming on WoW.  I also played online poker and even after black Friday I still thought there might be a way to win play poker chips and trade them for real money.  When I look back on that time I think it is rather incredible that I didn't stumble onto Bitcoin then.  That's just a testament to how underground it was at the time.  But I know I must have sort of heard about it then even if I don't clearly remember it.  I think someone may have mentioned Bitcoin mining to me in passing when I brought up gold farming on WoW.
  
It took a crash to wake me up to Bitcoin.  I think most people are still asleep.  After leaving the hospital in April 2013 I started researching Bitcoin more.  I stated mining in May and I started buying in June.      

I've never heard of it. Is it some sort of magic internet money?

When I first heard it in 2012, price is so low like $10 - $15 a piece. I like the technology but I did not able to buy bitcoins there are very few exchanges. And I didn't expect it's price to rise so high.

1998? i've read the history of it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin) and i found no date of 1998. How come you already have collected it in 2003? any proof of it.? I kinda confused here. 

Beginning of this year.

You are a liar.

Same, I saw a documentary about it, it was either on discovery channel or National Geographic, I don't remember exactly and interestingly it was about someone who bought and had lot of bitcoin apparently had lost his key and it got me curious and I researched and I learned that I was too late. But better late than never. :)

Vod strikes again. For justice.

My friend told me about bitcon about year ago. I am quite new but I understand all new possibilities bitcoin brings.

what kind of possibilities?

wtf are you talking about? There was no bitcoin to collect at 2003...

CPU mined my first block of 50 BTC on August 11th, 2010.

Nice!  Mine was July 16, 2010

my story is the worst:
first i heard about Bitcoin when it worth nothing maybe something below 50$ (don't remember exactly) i was too lazy to pursue and read more about it
then about a year ago one of my close friends started mining Bitcoins. he bought hardware and everything (this is around the time when the price was around 1000$) and again i was Busy with other stuff and a bit lazy to go after bitcoins, he earn huge profits from his work
and now after the dust is settled :) i am here
now i wish i can see glorious days if bitcoin to come :D

I believe it was last year when the news get more and more active about bitcoin..

Last year from my dear friend.

We'll share with dank!

The 1st time I heard about Bitcoin was in late summer/fall in 2013.

I saw it on a gaming forum, in the offtopic subforum. Usually the best places on forums to find random interesting stuff .

I heard it from some sensationalized news site about that guy who bought a pizza for bitcoins worth a shit ton of money now.  To see that thread still being bumped makes me happy.

LOL. I think he's having some dementia with a hefty dose of megalomania.  ::)

My friend told me about Bitcoin a year ago, almost to the day.

friend told me about btc

Heard about it this summer, from a magazine article.

i heard when someone told me i will pay you in bitcoin and i was like lol i dont need goldcoins :P

I should of bought the bitcoin directly rather than buying butterfly labs 50 ghs single :-\.....lost money there

1984

lol, you confused Bitcoin with Watoshicoin . You got people confused.
I only have a few watoshis left,... :( Lucky you.



;)

Unfortunately, 2014.

few days ago from my friend who is on this forum, too...:-)

People were tipping with it early in 2013 on reddit and I always took it as fake money. Don't remember what caused me to pursue it further but one of the first results for Bitcoin questions was always this forum

I'm a forumer from recently ago (it's that phase now I guess), so I found it out relatively easy, through internet research. Awesome forum, lots of active forumers and interesting topics. Thumbs up

around 2012.

People talked about BTC as it was some kind of jokish nerd stuff, and I made no further research about it

he is just a time traveler.

But he messed up with sync the private keys from past and future, and only managed to get 162 btc available for the present.

you must be mistaken?

1984 too.  guess somethin happened when I popped in RUSH's Grace Under Pressure album

I was thinking Orwellian.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DlgAx89u-Bo/TMM5JZ7U5OI/AAAAAAAAACw/1whbZkc4uyY/s1600/1984.png

start beginning march 2014 im in