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Dear BTC users,

When I first visited BTC Talk, I saw it as a good marketplace (it is the best, no doubt)...never knew or used BTC before, even after being a member for a long time, i didn't use BTC and instead i used Paypal...

Recently (before 2-3 weeks), I created a new Bitcoin Account and started using BTCs for the first time...I'm overexcited to use BTCs than any other form of money transfers these days...:) :) This is huge turning point for me.

BTC have loads of potential, I'm still a beginner with BTC. This forum is too addictive and changed my life considerably.

1.) Your First Time experience with BTC ??
2.) When did you start using BTC for transactions??
3.) What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??

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I wanted to ask you guys a few questions related to BTC...

1.) Do any of you Use BTC for International Transfers ?? (In my opinion BTC save a lot of money as we won't have BANK Fees, Interbank transfers, no currency conversion charges, safe and instant transfer)

2.) How about BTC Trading (over forex/ share market) everyday?? is it wise to invest on BTC and do trading??

please feel free to share your Views...:) :) Happy to see you all BTCTalkers...:)

I know about bitcoin from long time ago but not used it before few months ago. After using it as payment processor i find it quite easy and cheap than paypal like processor. Yes it is quite profitable if you can do day trading with 1+ bitcoin.

Basically you asked 5 question so I think it would be better to change those last two numbers to 4 and 5 and to answer your questions in exact order:

1.) I started on the BTCitcoin world around late 2011 wherein all I did was to mine using graphics cards that I had before.
2.) Around less than a year ago since I started to actually buy stuff using it.
3.) I think it's the best invention of the century.
4.) Yes, I do for many occasions and it's a big savings compared to other options on that matter.
5.) I don't know much in terms of trading although I know some who are making a living out of it but put this into consideration that it really takes time before you be a pro trader.

i think i'm just want to answer numer 1-3 :  :P
1. i knew about bitcoin since late 2014.
2. I honestly do not buy goods with bitcoin, but I redeem and purchase goods from the outcome
3. I think bitcoin is something that will continue to exist

1. I actually got in touch with bitcoin through faucets. Got greedy and googled free money, the first thing that popped up was bitcoin faucets...
2. I eventually started in the mining business, mainly in cloud mining, which I have quit because of the price falling all the time and the electricity bills getting more and more expensive.
3. Bitcoin is fun and easy to use. You can be totally anonymous when buying things and sending money. The technology behind it is a big breakthrough of the century and I'm more than happy to use it :)
4. I sometimes do transfer money via bitcoin when I will be staying in a foreign country for a long time. When I was in need of money I just exchanged a small portion of it.
5. The first trade I have ever made was about 2 weeks ago, when bitcoin was worth 400$. I sold a big portion of my coins. The week after the price fell to 330$ - then I bought the bitcoins again and made some small profit.
Trading is a good way to make profit, however it requires knowledge about the bitcoin economy.

Yes I was very late into bitcoins I started using bitcoins in 2014 but yes it was a great experience to earn bitcoins, My first experience with bitcoin was good I converted my first earned bitcoins to fiat currency and it was so easy simple and fast with minimum transaction cost, And the money got credited to my bank account in fractions of seconds. So now generally I use bitcoins to convert it to fiat currency.

Wow...thanks a lot guys for sharing your experience...:) :)

In my believe if someone started using BTC before the BTC evolution (when BTC touched $1000), they would have earned a lot.

I guess i knew about BTC before 1 or 2 years, but i thought this will be extremely unstable and risky to use (as its not a currency), so never had the guts to try BTC, but now I realize that's a huge mistake. I would definitely say BTC is the best invention of this decade..

Its nice to read through the posts, everyone had a different experience with BTC, but overall we all love BTC..:)

We want to see more posts to this thread..:) Feel free to share your experience ..:)

i remember getting small amount of bitcoins and then loosing it all on a casino

i can remember that it was my main target to reach 1 whole bitcoin at that time. once i reached 1 whole bitcoin i was proud of myself and set myself the goal to reach 2 bitcoins.

It's more then just a marketplace, it's basically center of every bitcoin news, discussions, services etc. And if you visit at-least once a day and scroll through sections, you'd get up to speed with things happening with BTC around the world.


1. Around 12+ months back, I saw a program on TV and then got interested in it and then searched and joined this forum.
2. Sometime after I joined this forum.
3. I think it's a great new technology which will change how we spend/store money.


1. I make transactions everyday to a lot of people and most of them are from farthest corners of the world and you're correct it's fast, cheaper, safe and most importantly a lot easier than sending money worldwide using other mediums.

2. That's something for you to research on your own and then make your decision. But I think it is very wise to invest in BTC.

Just experiment with it by getting some through a giveaway then from faucets then bought some from some payment processor that I had a few dollars in.
That is my story. Nothing too exciting.

I knew about Bitcoin around 2009, that was when I first bought Bitcoin.

I only started to buy stuff, with Bitcoin, this year, when I found out about a great website called purse.io.

Bitcoin is revolutionary and I love using it.

I knew about bitcoin ever since it came out. I didn't think much of it at the time so I didn't make any investments or didn't do anything with it.

I actually started doing BTC not too long ago. I believe now that it has a lot of potential in the future and it's never too late to start stashing BTC.

1st time experience: well ... not really an experience, but somewhere in the final months of 2011 a friend told me about Bitcoin. He was mining them actively, while I found it an interesting phenomenom but brushed it off as some funny internet curiosity.

1st transaction: in april 2013 I bought a very small amount of Bitcoin and decided to trade with it to gain crypto. As I had never traded before and also was a complete n00b regarding crypto, I managed to blow up 90% of my initial investments in mere days.

Feeling about usage of BTC: it isn't some odd curiosity on the WWW like I thought in 2011, otherwise it wouldn't still exist after years and exploded in value since its conception. I think the technology could certainly overhaul the financial world in a positive way, but the question is: will it get accepted by the general public and thus gaining much more momentum ... ?

International transactions: sporadically. And in those cases, transfers were fast and without the known barriers the current financial systems presents nowadays.

so you're an early adopter?

i remember that i come accross bitcoin in 2010, but i ignored it completely i was thinking it was a virus or something

the i liked the mining aspect of the bitcoin and i loved it when i discovered about the whole thing

1. I know bitcoin in april 2014
2. My first transaction is to buy vps using btc :)
3. It most easy rather than using fiat, especially when buy some service when i didn't have $ to pay. So bitcoin is very helpfull

Unfortunately I have heard of Bitcoin in the news, begging of the December 2013, when it broke $1,000 mark!

I have gotten right away my first bitcoins from Virwox and I had paid those bastards huge fees. I think my first transaction was about $100 worth of bitcoins, that gave me about 0.09 BTCs.

I have sent them immediately to Cryptsy and there I started exchanging them for other altcoins and I started playing with all this!

First heard about Bitcoin back in 2009 when it was worth peanuts and disregarded it as a gimmick

Now we're here...

the first time i heard about bitcoin was back when it exploded and prices were at like $900, i thought it was almost impossible to get a bitcoin so i just ignored it. then later i decided to invest a bit into it when the prices were at like 600.

i remember checking bitcoin prices day and night to see if i broke even  :(, it wasnt really an fun experience but it was still pretty exciting.

First of all I want to say welcome to the forums and to the Bitcoin community , feel free to ask question in case you have any issues .

• I saw couple of videos about it while searching about stuff related to PayPal on YouTube , and that was on 2013 I guess .
• I started using Bitcoin for transaction at the end of 2014 (the price was ~700$ then If I remember right) .
• I don't consider one year as a long period of time but well ... after sometime I felt that Bitcoin have great potentials and I decided to hold them instead of spending them.
• Yes , in fact I don't use it locally at all because no one on my country really use Bitcoin .
• It's pretty wise (at my point of view) to invest in BTC , However you should know that Bitcoin is a long term investment and not really to make quick profit and walk away, so if you are patient it's a good choice for you . For what comes to Trading I was never a fan of it (I suppose because I'm not that good at it ) .

Your First Time experience with BTC ??
I was trying to mine it, back then cpu mining was the thing, but i hated it since it would make my laptop unusable while mining (little did i know ..)

When did you start using BTC for transactions??
Pretty much as soon as i heard about it. My first transactions were trading related though. (altcoin and bitcoin trading)

What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??
I feel that it's simple and easy, and i fail to realize why not everyone is using it. On a negative note, there should be more attention directed to safety,
because a lot of ppl get robbed and don't ever trust bitcoin again.

Downloaded the client early on but was confused by the blockchain sync after leaving it all night it still hadn't synced. So I uninstalled.

Later a friend of mine started buying products from Silk Road. Soon after I got involved - bought some, set up a few sites and faucets.

I've heard about bitcoin a few years before when they have set up an ATM in my country as well and they were in the news. After this year, in May, I just googled it if there is a BTC bank card. That time was when XAPO had started to roll out their debit card but after a long mail conversation with their customer service I decided not to take part in the test period because of the high prices. Later on, this year September I've googled again about them and saw that the debit card is working normally, the test period was already over. I've decided to join and also I've joined this forum to learn.
My first transaction was that from my first earnings (from a signature campaign) I have bought a coke with my new debit card (0,5 l of coke and it took my whole salary of that week :) )
Paying for daily goods in shops with BTC card is really fun, because they don't even know what kind of card I use, so they don't know that I'm paying with my bitcoins.
But I don't want to spend my hard earned BTC's if price will continously rise like nowdays

first i was introduced by my friend in the bitcoin world through quoinpro.com site that time i was thinking it is useless, but after surfing in google search i found some faucets to earn freely, that i done for some time , then i become tired and left it, after few days one more friend i met and got introduced to this site and signature campaign and how to earn soon through signature campaign when i received my first payment i was so much excited because what i earned through faucets in 3 months that i earned in one week.

My first time experience in bitcoin is kinda amazing.
My friend of mine introduced the bitcoin on me that's why I knew it.
I don't know that there is like a thing in this world.
But I am so happy that it existed.

Started using faucets worst decision of my life

They are not a real good way to start into bitcoin because you nothing really from doing it the first time and generally you would turned off to using them and bitcoin all together.

1.) Your First Time experience with BTC ??
As another user mentioned I was watching a television program and was interested to learn more about how you can buy products with this cryptocurrency as they called it.

2.) When did you start using BTC for transactions??
I learned what a btc wallet was and once I had my wallet address I knew it had to go somewhere. So I put it in on keystroke at a time so not to mix up the characters some way and off I was into the crypto world of finance.

3.) What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??
It was fast to do initiate a transaction. But did not realize you had to wait for a series of confirmations to be completed before it arrives to your balance. So this threw me off for a while until I did my third transaction and it was successful with in half an hour.

I heard about Bitcoin from one of my friends back in 2011. but i thought that is only some hackers token so i forget about all that till big bubble at end of 2013. when i started to play with a bit. At start 2014. i was fully addicted and rest is history lol.

In order to get into the swing of things and to understand the mechanism of work is quite a small amount at first for training.

1.) Your First Time experience with BTC ??

A friend of mine told me about BTC and how he was making money trading doge and thinking about selling BTC on ebay. I didn't understand anything about it but trading interested me.

He turned me on to checking out Cryptsy and I later was able to get .01 BTC off of him to try out trading. And then I traded for a long time..

2.) When did you start using BTC for transactions??

Earlier this summer I needed an intercooler and some Turbo accesories for my car project and I sold some of my trading profits on gyft.com for a $200 ebay gift card. I also bought a sticker from Bitlab, I see him around here too..

Other than that I don't want to spend any BTC because it's hard to come by, hard to buy. I have had my BTC across Cryptsy, Coinbase, Mintpal, Bittrex, Poloniex, Mycelium and a few alts with wallets etc..

3.) What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??

I believe!! I am accumulating and hoarding whilst simultaneously kicking myself in the rear for spending some of it on my car..

I agree with that statement but once you do it once or twice it just seems useless to continue after that because your time is worth more than a fraction of a penny worth of bitcoin.

First experience was creating an online wallet and then hitting some faucets to accumulate some satoshis. I remember being happy when I earned my first 2 cents  ;D. Then some weeks later suddenly my password for the wallet did not work. Tried the passphrase they gave me on registering, and it did not work either...

Long story sort, I lost my first 2 cents and learned on my first experience that the ecosystem is quite full of scams.

My first bitcoin experience is all about my ignorance about it . I thought that 1 satoshi is equavelent to 1 bitcoin haha , however when i sum up all the bitcoins that i earned through faucets within 1 week it's value is 0.1$ only haha get little disappointed about it , thankful that i didn't stop there now I earn 0.05btc or more  weekly  a fair salary for a part timer like me .

i first heard about bitcoins in december,2013.
But after finding that it was too much pain to get bitcoins from faucets i left the idea.
and when i heard about bitcointalk signature campaign then i came back to bitcoins in june 2015.

my overall ecperience is very good with bitcoins and also i have earned about 0.2btc from signature campaigns.

I heard about bitcoin back in 2011 because a talk show I listened to had blockchain.info as an advertiser at the time. I heard about bitcoin so often and didn't really have any understanding of it that I started to hate it. Then a year or so later after they had talked more about it over time it really started to click for me and that's when I knew I had to start accumulating.

It was in December,2013 I heard about bitcoins at the first time. I googled it and knew many ppl were mining for good trunk of profits. Then I bought asic miners as well. I was really excited after I received the mining reward and exchanged them for money.

1.) Your First Time experience with BTC ??
my first experience in 2014 january or february,i'm forget about that.
2.) When did you start using BTC for transactions??
i collect btcoin from PTcircle,its a advertise website,paid wit US dollar,and witdraw with bitcoin.and i trade bitcoin to local currency for buy smartphone.
3.) What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??
i feel glad,i fell helped,and always love bitcoin..

Well the first one was terrible i didn't know where to start what to do with the satoshis lol, it was few years before and i joined through faucets which i hate nowadays :P because it consumes too much time, the feeling is good after few years of using bitcoin and will not stop for a while using it.

I  psiphon in the fb after i saw the pngkabuyan sa cyberworld then i saw the bitcoin,, then its my first time to play bitcoin its so cool and i love it because you hav money via virtual currency ,, but i wish i hv 1 btc hehehe :)

I heard about it on the news when it was at it's height price wise, well I did hear about it every now and then before that but when I saw it on the news it got me interested.
How can this be worth so much and how can I get some so I googled and came here and then looked at how to get some so ended up with faucets and then using those small bits to trade against altcoins and been here ever since.

1.) My first experience was 2014, ye I'm still newb but I've learned a lot from them
2.) I've started using btc also in 2014
3.) Well I haven't used it a long time like others, but till now I think It's a good currency which you can earn in many ways, and transaction is almost immedeately

My first time was setting up a wallet and starting to do faucets claims.

It's not the worst to start out with but it is time consuming for getting so little. For starting out it's a great idea.

I googled (2012) "How to make money with my pc" and boom - Bitcoin   ;D

Since then i educated myself so much about finance, money, mining, Cryptography and what not.
It was an awesome expirience and it still is  :)

1. i was searching about bitcoin in 2014 and since that year i use it until today
2. in 2014 also i did my first transaction bitcoin for recharge my phone number
3. i feel very glad because bitcoin really help me for every online transactions

Heard about it early just the name bitcoin when it first started out but only read about it properly in 2013 and knew right away it was a big deal.

i know bitcoin when i'm in college,i buy my first smartphone with money from bitcoin ;D
i'm forget when firstly in use bitcoin,it maybe on 2014.its a wondeerfull feeling when i got more than $100 from bitcoin,amazing experience.

That's good, I think I am the only guy who was very late into bitcoins, I started using bitcoins before 8 months i.e., in 2015 and the day I started to use bitcoins I haven't used anything else, I earned some coins from signature campaigns and converted it to my local currency, that was the first transaction I did with my BTC.

lol i think we all start there at one stage

I begin buying bitcoin on virwox and looking around investing and growing, I never use faucets, I think it is waste of time and not worth the effort

1.) Your First Time experience with BTC ??
A site I was a member of started accepting Bitcoin at the time
2.) When did you start using BTC for transactions??
Rapidly after I discovered it was useful and convinient a few weeks after that first experience
3.) What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??
Excited it changes constantly and there are always new things going on in the sphere.
(Personal note post 1000 feels like a good post to give it to)

I wanted to ask you guys a few questions related to BTC...

1.) Do any of you Use BTC for International Transfers ?? (In my opinion BTC save a lot of money as we won't have BANK Fees, Interbank transfers, no currency conversion charges, safe and instant transfer)
No, but I am interested in the utility of it although the conversion side remains a problem in my opinion.

2.) How about BTC Trading (over forex/ share market) everyday?? is it wise to invest on BTC and do trading??
I have done forex, it was interesting to run it the volatility of it is something else.

Yeah, I use BTC for International Transfers as I am working overseas so need to send money back home and I think BTC transfers are best, convinient, cheap and very fast transactions, the money gets credited to my home account with fraction of minutes So I feel BTC transfers are better then wire transfers or by transferring from WU as the charges are high and it is also time consuming.

1) I know BTC in 2013. It was the first thing to do to obtain BTC is the faucet
2) the same year. At first I just bought the mobile phone needs,
3) It is extraordinary technology

I handled my first bitcoin very poorly, because I just bought it and I got quite paranoid on where to store it safely. There were a lot of hacking going around and people were complaining about breaches in online wallets. Yes, I did store my first coins in online wallets.

I still have those coins and they safely tucked away in cold storage.

the time mtgox fake traded or before this?

Unfortunately I did not take advantage of my early knowledge of bitcoin (I opened my first btc wallet at beginnings 2012), but I decided to spend more time in other online stuffs and neglected my approaching to this currency. Nowadays I try to recover the time, but I think it is too late because the bitcoin conditions and perspectives have changed a lot.

First heard of bitcoin around 2012 and haven't bothered to look deeply into it. At the beginning of 2013 a meme about bitcoin showed up on my search about cryptographic systems on Google. After then I was hooked, got my first bits on faucets and from then on started working for bitcoins.

firstly i know stellar boom..its a huge amount of free stellar,and its first time i got some big amount of bitcoin,and that time bitcoin have a high price,its up to $500 or higher,i'm forget about it.
and until now,its unforgetten experience,i will tell to my child on future ;D

when i had listen about bitcoins . it wqs just like a dream to earn btc .
i was thought that it is not a understandable thing .
and its way of buy and sell was something complicated (from my thinking) .
but after one month i had became like a mastermind of the bitcoins user.

That's good to hear that you have safely stored your bitcoins in cold storage and now you are aware how to keep your coins safe, the first experience and first earned coins are always memorable and its really disappointing if we loose our hard earned coins to scammers or hackers. Prevention is better then cure.

I was shaking on my first transaction done with blockchain.info, because i feared that I send btc to the wrong address.

Now i`m using electrum and now i can verify 3 times the address before sending it, feels more safe.

I first find bitcoin long ago when I was clicking PTC's and saw ads for bitcoin, and new way to accept payment. I find some faucet get some coin and now I am a lot bigger hold of btc than what i was then
and also, no longer use penny ptc lol

I seen a site offering to pay its users bitcoin for taking and I was thinking what the hell is bitcoins,so I signed up and talked with the community there and learned pretty much everything about it!

its start when my friend tell me some article about bitcoin,and than i start to intersting. and finnaly i start to create wallet and looking fro free bitcoin from faucet,its a difficult and sound silly,but i'm sure that i can earn money from bitcoin,and now i feel good with bitcoins,and proof to all my friend that bitcoin is great.

my first time in bitcoin was really rough for me i started bitcoin about 2 months ago many sites fooling me about doubling or even triple my money with just 100 or 200 hours of course as a first timer I am easily attracted with those kinds of scheme and think that it was really real but in the end i will end up being scammed. that's my first impression in bitcoin kind of sad but continue learning

Sad to hear that you got scammed in your very first experience but the good news is that you learnt from your mistakes and now you would think twice before investing your bitcoins into any ponzi scheme, my first experience was bit same I lost my bitcoins in gambling as I wanted to grow my bitcoins too.

 
i first heard about btc back when it was around $1000 and got a lot of attention, i started using btc for transactions last year .That was the first time i ever bought btc. so far btc seems like a really good way to do transactions ,the only thing limiting it would be the volatility of the price.

I started using BTC , when paypal caught me that I use fake ID.

Somehow I amass a whole quarter yes (.25 cents) U.S.D from a faucet and then I put in a wallet a while ago. This is when it was pretty expensive around maybe 2013. I really didn't get involved when it was first introduced because it was so new. I wish I heard about it in the beginning of 2009.

I just known bitcoin over a year ago when for the first time I tried cloudmining that advised by my friend, and for the first transaction was sending my bitcoin for buying some stuff..

i have more experience with bitcoin :)
i get profit ~1btc and i lose at other ~1.5btc (last year im active trader)

my first experience is game , im player of some online game, and im need cash to upgrade skill in games
then my friend talk me about bitcoin , so i try earning bitcoin from faucet and i get only 200.000sat in 1 week  :D
after it im not interesting again about bitcoin

oneday my friend invited me to join stellar giveaway and this giveaway make me rich, because i invite more people maybe 30 of my friend and i get all of my friend acount  :D

Good story mate,sadly I dont join stellar giveaway last year, and I have stopped in faucet, and now I'm active being trader and in this forum..

My first time btc experience is collecting bitcoin by paid to click . But i don't continue it . It is so wasted my time and then i stoped it.

1. I knew about bitcoin around 2011.
2. I started using it for transactions only a couple of months ago.
3. I really like using bitcoin after using it for so long.

I knew bitcoin in yeah 2013, but I was not really interested about it until it was to late.
My first with bitcoin well satoshi, because I did some faucets. I was really happy that in 30 min. I could earn like 25 cents. It took so long to just get 0.1 bitcoin so I stop. So yeah I think bitcoin is awesome to have and to just earn money.

My first time with bitcoin was not that awesome I was stupid that I got scammed. It was not that big amount of bitcoin I have lost.
But getting scam is just my fault. But the nice think was that with bitcoin I have earn quite a lot of cash with just trading it.

I feel you man. That fear of sending coins to the wrong address is still strong within me. I usually double, triple check addresses and amount of BTC.
I've seen people sending 0.5 btc instead of 0.05, so you will be better safe now than sorry later.

Me too... When I first found bitcoin, I was actually finding a way for free bitcoins. The I use faucets and paid-to-click sites for my very first coins. Then I have 'invested' my first 0.001 BTC to a HYIP site (by that time I still don't know how dangerous those sites are, nor joined here in bitcointalk), and then I of course, lost them.
So for all first time bitcoiners, don't spend your first coins without doing research on the site that you're spending your bitcoins to.

I came across bitcoin on Google, while I was searching for ways of earning money online. So, I read more about it on Wikipedia, after that I joined some faucets and made few bitcoins, which I mostly used to fill up my phone then, later I decided to start alt coin mining and investing in bitcoin.

"Hey, check this out" *friend points to bitcoin.org
"Hmm, seems dodgy..."

Two years later (2011) I start mining :(

Dragon Tale game, I wanted to play something and I read somewhere people earn from there. So I instaled and see what people talk about there and start to search more on google. After sometime I found this place and from here many others. But for sure last 3 months btc talk is the place where I spend a lot of time every day, reading what people talking, commenting, there is nice giveaways in games and rounds. And after more then 3 months I still think that I`m begginer.

1. I know bitcoin in 2013 when told a friend.
2. The first time I used it was also time to try to buy phone credit
3. Very nice for a quick transaction

My first experience is when i am register on PTC site,and that site accept bitcoin as payment,and i am starting exited and do paid per click (PTC) almost everyday,and i collect until $20 in Bitcoin,on that time the price is still $600,and i bought smartphome from it,yes i also get more money from my dad ;D

There are some days in everyone's life that change everything.
The days we never forget.
Many of them are intensely personal and involve other people, like the day my son was born, or the day I first fell in love.
Others involve experiences with things, like the day I got my first car or first used a computer.

But one day I’ll never forget was the day I discovered bitcoin.
It was 2010. I had just checked in to a suite at the J.W. Marriott in Bangkok, Thailand.
First thing’s first: get wifi working.
Laptop on the bed. Jet lag wasn’t so bad this trip. I ordered room service––a banana split sundae, I remember.
As a finance professional, I loved lurking the world of digital currencies. I had been following online money since the e-gold fiasco years ago. Now there were new players in the game. Liberty Reserve was big at the time. Pecunix was quiet but steady. MoneyBookers was popular. And of course there was Paypal. Although not its own currency, it was still part of the internet money landscape. I always have and probably always will deeply despise paypal.
Yet as always, every digital currency seemed dodgy and untrustworthy. Still, I knew that “magic internet money” would be important some day.
I checked my usual online sources, and lo and behold, one had a link to an article about “loom” and another had a link to an article about “bitcoin.” Hacker sites always have interesting stories, I’ve learned.
I was fascinated by what I read.
I stayed up all night researching loom and bitcoin.
Loom (which wasn’t exactly money) is forgotten today.
But bitcoin has changed the world. And my world.
I found the old pre-MtGox New Liberty Standard exchange site.
I couldn’t believe these things called bitcoins actually had a market.
Some lunatics were offering up to a dollar per bitcoin, which most people agreed was outrageous.
I kept reading.
I found this forum.
I found the white paper.
I learned to “setgenerate true -1”
I dug deeper.
I bought a GPU.
It became an addition.

I've never transact using bitcoin because I also just a few months ago to join the bitcoin. For this I only play new faucets and try the signature campaign. Payout to bitcoin wallet I just new I do use this new faucets and collected 0,002 BTC. May require patience and hard work to be able to collect a lot bitcoin. We share the same new bitcoin users  :D

1.) first time i know about bitcoin was on end of 2013,that time i still on college
2.) i start using bitcoin for transaction in end of 2014,because i am new to know,and on my country also new to have some wite to spent bitcoin.
3.) of course i feel happy,and never dream about bitcoin before,just awesome.

I saw an ad of a gambling site, when I clicked and visited the site, I checked their payment method and saw bitcoin, but, then I don’t know about bitcoin, so I decided to study it online, and also asked some of friends that knows about it, after that I learn different aspects of bitcoin like mining, decentralization and alt coin environment etc.

My first Bitcoin experience was when I first heard about it and I found faucets on ePay.  I played with it for about 3 days before I found easier ways to make Bitcoin.  Of coarse I did not make much, only about .0035 BTC my first day at faucets, which was over 6 hours of my life, but it was fun.

Yes faucet in Epay is very favorable, we can gain a lot of bitcoin if we are diligent. I also still play there faucets, within 4 days I can get 50,000 satoshi. It is unbelievably fairly well to add bitcoin and I also really enjoy doing it.

Looking for idle online games and came across coinbrawl which taught me how to set up a wallet and store bitcoin. Looking for other things to do I came across btcjam on blockchains wallet website. Now I'm making a faucetlist at bloggingwithbloggers.com (http://bloggingwithbloggers.com)

My first time about btc i think i was finding a job online and i tried some PTC sites but low earnings and  i can only earn few cents every month.
So i decided to try bitcoins on faucets i earn and few satoshis until i reach 0.005 then i want to multiply my earnings so i decided to invest it on coinsera the big ponzi scam i just try it and my bitcoins had gaid profit everyweek then after that few weeks the support is gone and my bitcoins stuck on that site so i search many time on google how to recover bitcoin until i came here and made a thread how to recover bitcoins on that site..
But bad luck i cant get it back m y bitcoins but in the end im happy to be in here on bitcointalk because i learn a lots about this online ecurrency
And i earn much in signiture campaign than doing captcha in faucets.. Thats it..

I got into bitcoin through faucets, sadly xD

I started scripting multiple bots to work for me on difference IPs on faucets like freebitco.in, moonbitcoin, and dogeco.in.

I came across BTC while looking at wikipedia... I somehow went from e-gold to bitcoin. Good find.

It was not a difficult experience when i first came into interaction with the idea of bitcoin trading. The reason is because I have been observing a friend of mine for a while now engaging in active bitcoin mining and even trading. This gave me the first experience. One thing I need to confess having trouble with is making a final decision on which part of bitcoin i should always venture into. I was however given enough advise and I can say that I have never made a loss ever since i started trading.

This topic could be very interesting seeing other people's stories when you first get to know about bitcoin lol
all the stories of experience, it is very interesting to me

I don't remember what my "first time" was like. Was it suppose to be like anything special? It's just money transferring, so who cares. The way you worded the question also made me feel uncomfortable.

My first experience was using a faucet for several hours.

When I calculated the hourly wage I was being paid to solve captchas for spammers, I realized I could make more money by picking up the cans and bottles people leave on the street.

But that was my first experience with bitcoin.

Known about bitcoin for about 4 years now, since 2013 when it was really making the news because of the bubble it was in at the time.  Maybe before, time is a blur for me.  Didn't buy my first bitcoin until last year around March and I didn't join this forum until then either though I lurked for a long while. 

The only time I spent bitcoin was to buy some silver coins from Provident and I could have done it much more quickly and easily with fiat, and next time I won't use bitcoin.  Bitcoin is good for little transactions on forums like this and for storing value without taking up space.  I don't like it as a currency.

i first experienced it when i used bitcoins for checkingout for cs go keys like a year ago

Our experience at the beginning I also collect first bitcoin on the faucet and I've payout several times and sent bitcoin amount into my bitcoin wallet. At that time I got around 100k satoshi have felt happy then my friend suggested I try the signature campaign and it turns out there that can generate bitcoin easily and I moved to the signature campaign

"This must be another Ponzi scheme!", this was what I told myself the first time I heard about bitcoin.

However, the more I read about it, I more I realise the "ideas" behind bitcoin about freedom and decentralisation, not back by anyone, or group of people, or company, or a government.

I hope bitcoin continue to be led by these values...

Your First Time experience with BTC ??
I was trying to buy some BTC, at that time, only MtGOX has it, but i have to wire money there so I did pull the trigger

When did you start using BTC for transactions??
I bought some Lite coin with my bit coin. Thinking lite coin will catch up with bitcoin, This is a huge loss.

What do you feel about BTC after using it for such a long time??
Bitcoin is too volatile, when I try to pay with bitcoin, the store owner is like they will have to sell right away ...

1. My first time experience with bitcoin is around 2013-2014.
2. I start using bitcoin for transactions is the middle of 2014. around july-august, after i received my payment.
3.  i don't about trading. Yes i think it's good to invest on bitcoin.

I lost most of my original coins to HYIP and cloud mining. PBMining and HashProfit to be exact

i can't explane my bitcoim experience. i have alot of excitement, bec i want earn money and that is oneway and when i started, i have a lot of confusion but late on i relize it is a best way.

I was begging blog commenting job just to experience my first bitcoin transaction and i got my first $5 in btc on my blockchain wallet.
I don't even know how to use the wallet i just understand the gibberish combination of text is my wallet.

i then work for someone with bitcoin wiki site but he isn't paying bitcoin from odesk.  ;D until then i started learning btc.

I used to play faucets probably 2-3 years ago. At that time I thought what I'm doing is worth my time until I realize after knowing the conversion rate that there are other things that are worthy of my time.

my first experience with bitcoin was a good one, because my close friend introduced me to bitcoin and taught me all i needed to know about it and even set up a wallet for me and game me some BTC to test everything.

now that more than a year is past i am still happy to have found out about bitcoin.

3 years ago. im still get bitcoin by faucet in freebitco.in because the very small monthly income, I tried multiple accounts. but instead, hit my account be frozen for 60 days lol

I read about BTC in early 2011 from some anarcho site,
downloaded the wallet, did not do anything with it, and soon
forgot all about it.

I kick myself mentally whenever I think about that!

One my friends used to use Bitcoins for trading, I was asking him about it but he said that first I have to learn online and should know about the bitcoins in you tube or in google. and then he started to tell me that this is a digital money where there is lots of benefits are there. He showed me, how he do transactions and get money through ATM after selling his bitcoins to a trader. It was a nice experience knowing about it.

first time I heard about bitcoin was a long time ago, it was around the time when price was going higher and higher (before the $1000 bubble) it was the time that you could mine bitcoin with your PC at home, but since I didn't have a good system and no money to buy a better one, I could not get into mining which I still regret to this day.


I started using bitcoin after the bubble phase ended and the more I read about it the more I liked the technology. and my first transaction was to my blockchain.info wallet and it was from faucet earnings.


I still love bitcoin without a question. the fast transactions, and the fact that I don't have to rely on a website and obey their rules (like Paypal) in order to use bitcoin is the best option for me.


well, I have bought some things online, all those sending/receiving are being done oversees if that's what you mean


yeah, trading was one of the first things that I started doing after a while that I learned how to use bitcoin. I mostly am active in trading altcoins these days since bitcoin market was boring for a long time.

Like many people here, I also have started using bitcoin as a faucet user. So, my 1st experience about bitcoin was not that much fruitful. Claiming 100, 200, 300 satoshi every hour and storing them in microwallet account was so frustrating.

I also started bitcoin life with faucets and now I never touch faucets. It was so excited to see some satoshis in my blockchain wallet. My first time BTC experience was a pleasant memory still now.

So now how you earn bitcoins ? Using only signature compaigns or any other method?
Please let me know.

Luckily I did not spend more time with faucets because I started my own faucets and this period of my bitcoin life is
amazing. Now I am enjoying my work and getting paid in bitcoin. Really bitcoin changed my life a lot.

First, i saw it online and said it's worthless when the price was 12 dollars

Bought 10 when was worth 100$. When it hit 1500 I moved to mtgox. Lost it all. Haha.

I bought it when the price was around $250 last year, I had opportunity to buy when the price was $100 but at that time I felt it is waste of time and money to invest in, and I missed the boat.

well i guess i first experienced it when i bough some headphones for myself, everything was fluent and fast

My first experience was very nice and pleasant since it is very cheap than paypal as well as no bank transfer or any additional or hidden charges are involved while transferring bit coins.

first, I asked my friend how to get bitcoin, then he said "you can learn about bitcoin in bitcointalk", then I read threads here but I didn't really understand. so I asked another friend and he suggested me to join my country's forum and explain a little about bitcoin. he really helped me.

I first heard about bitcoin from my friend but I was very skeptic.
When he later showed me how much he earned because bitcoin value increased I finally decide to join the club :)
He suggest me to join this forum in order to learn more about bitcoin and from that day I really enjoining be here :)

Can you tell me if you were able to earn more as faucet onwer or signature compaign ?
Also i guess everyone first experience with bitcoin will be faucet earnings.

Sig campaigns can be profitable. That is how I started earning my BTC at first . Enough to start my own sig campaign!

i think this guy is lie. bitcoin price never touch $1500 dude ?

Same as me, my friend told me to try mine bitcoin it's the coolest way to earn money online he said.
He use several hardware miners and vps too to mine bitcoin and altcoin.
He tell me all detail what bitcoin it is, what function, how to earn etc. And i an getting interested that time. Then the rest i do my self learn and make some research until i came here to this forum :) .

Yes Bitcoin price never touched 1500.
But i am hopeful, this year it will reach beyond that.

At first I didn't believe that there really is a bitcoin and that it has a value like money, so I just ignore it, until the day that I was on leave at work and looking for something to read and something to do while surfing the internet.. First time on trying to collect it, I was disappointed, as I thought 1 satoshi is 1 bitcoin, and I was so busy collecting it from faucets  for the whole day, not knowing that I was just collecting the smallest fraction of bitcoin...  :D

1. Started around 2013
2. Sometime after starting earing bitcoin
3. Guess it has a bright future

I heard it from some friends. They told me I must use it, But I am happy that I use it now around this time.
Maybe later that it will be more worth and that will be good for everyone that has invest in Bitcoin earlier.

My first experience with bitcoin was searching for methods on how to earn money with it and I started with claiming satoshi at faucet sites. I also searched bitcoin mining but I don't have funds to buy any mining rig at that time. :D

I wanted to donate for sci-hub back then, they only accept bitcoins so I tried researched what this was about. Well, this was one of the things that got me here.

In my case, unfortunately, I did not take advantage of my early knowledge of bitcoin (I opened my first btc wallet at beginnings 2012), but I decided to spend more time in other online stuffs and neglected my approaching to this currency. Nowadays I try to recover the time, but I think it is too late because the bitcoin conditions and perspectives have changed a lot. i'm doing a lot of research though.

1. started in 2013 when the price of bitcoin $1000

2. about a week I transaction with bitcoin

3. I am feeling very happy for using bitcoin. I am proud to have this bitcoin :)

My first time experience with bitcoin is i'm earning free bitcoins from faucets around 1 weeks. and on that time i'm very happy because i can earn money by myself.