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what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?

and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?

i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.

the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.

cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.

what about you?

I started to use bitcoin to make some cash... I was looking for an Ad network for a blog and comes to a site using Bitcoin only... I started to use I didn't even know what it is exactly and how Bitcoin works LOL I just knew I have a wallet at Coinbase and I receive bitcoin daily into it. I started to use Bitcoin I was not even sure how I could convert to fiat. Then I took interest on Bitcoin and the ecosystem, opened several blog related to Bitcoin but also Altcoin and Blockchain, as I also like how the blockchain technology is beeing used outside Bitcoin. I have been giving a little gift in forums from time to time just as gift to share, not a lot, last time it was something like 2$, just for promoting bitcoin somehow. The value doesn't matter, the gesture matter, you know. Since al this time, now I like debate, blogging, learning ect about crypto, it allowed me to meet some good people as well.

I started in bitcoin mainly with HYIP sites after earning from faucets (ponzi schemes that were quite widespread at that time). Since that point, I have gained more knowledge of the bitcoin technology and the way it functions and also decided to save bitcoins (rather than wasting them on investments/ponzis that are clearly unprofitible).

Also, bitcoin might go somewhere. It is quite likely it will. If not as the currency itself but as the foundations for other currencies and other ways of securities that can be used on the internet.

I think Bitcoin will stay the way it is often described, digital gold. Mined, traded, but not used for transacting on a daily basis. It lacks the capacity to process transactions fast enough to be a serious currency for daily use, another coin will take that place. One with a much lower value, higher availability and less of a focus on being 100% peer to peer with every part of the network untrusted.

The mining process should not be rewarded by the creation of money, but rather rewarded with small fees on very large transaction numbers, and the unit of value will need to be created at any point to allow other currencies to be moved into it, but only by trusted parties with witnessing and consent.

I first got into Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to make money (it was around the time Bitcoin reached over 1k USD for the first time). I tried my chances in trading, making some bad choices and some good ones (I made a profit in the end, although no particularly significant amounts of money). As time progressed, however, I became more and more interested in the technology behind it. I remember becoming fascinated by how it was possible to make a decentralized system such as this.

The last year or so, I've started to appreciate the anonymous nature of the network. I have become more aware of all the online tracking, and it is frankly something that I do not like. Even when paying for completely legal things, I do not like the idea of someone else being able being able to see all my transactions directly linked to my name. Therefore I have tried to stick to Bitcoin (along with cash and PaySafeCard) when paying for things.

But I think that a large amount of Bitcoin's price increase has been based on the hope that it could one day be used more frequently for transactions and that it would be capable of doing so.  Other coins will usually not actually be any better than Bitcoin, the illusion of this would just be created through the low volume of transactions that those smaller coins are actually used for.

It costs so much to mine the damn things, plus the amount of coins that are being kept just to sell later on for profit inflates the price. Increasing demand and people willing to pay the high price keeps the price high.

Some things need to be ruled with an iron fist, and currency is one of them. Look where Bitcoin is, 2 groups with different ideas slagging each other off, blaming each other for the transaction backlog, trying to implement 2 different sets of rules, it's not helping. I'm hopefully starting a Crypto payment processing service this year, and I've had to drop support for Bitcoin and move elsewhere. It's all to volatile at the moment, I'd rather wait until either the chain forks, or this crap gets settled and things stabilise again.

Yeah when i firat got in to bitcoin i was like, shit i heard about this when it was $1 an i fi get in now i might make a fortune.....lol  but now after being in bitcoin i am like, who cares about the price, the tech is sound and the ability to free us all from fro the banking cartel is amazing, thats all i care about now.

I love the technology and the concept behind it. But the only thing which demotivates me from investing or having large amounts of it has always been the volatility. Due to that, I have lost trust into remaining invested in it, but when it comes to the use and application, I never mind buying and using it whenever I have to. For that it is perfect and much better than any other service like Paypal.

Also has taught me to be mindful of not trusting online services with my money.

Well it changed my attitude a lot. Since i enter here, i set my mind on how to earn money and used to buy things through online, exchanging into fiat and withdraw through some banks. I like this cryptocurrency its because for their security behind it. I love to post, to share ideas and get some information from it. I love to do some transactions, make some investments or paying some services like internet bills

In the starting i thought that bitcoin is only a way payment that is making us simple way of payment without tax . but as the time spent by me in the bitcoin increases my expereince and knowlege also increase at a great extent and made me fully profeesional earner in the bitcoin and altcoin market .
So i think this  is a same thing for all who entered in the bitcoin a newbie .
And abig thing in our life is that if we will use our mind in any field than surely we will get succes more and more whether this is bitcoin or any other field to make earning or start buisiness .

well if i want to be perfectly honest i got in to make profit and to be even more honest i am still caring about making profit from bitcoin. but over time other things became more important to me also.
it is best if i say "to get benefits" when using bitcoin, benefits such as more money when price goes up, the anonymity and privacy that i get, the cheap transactions, the security an most important one of all "the decentralization".
also i became more interested in the technology and always want to learn more about it, although i still have a lot to learn.

In my experience in these field, it's not only my attidute to it have changed. Desicions, belief, and the way I see things in online working changed a lot. Bitcoin will always be Bitcoin. It's prices may go up and down, it may grow or it maybe just be nothing. My attidute toward it is always be the same, what makes a difference now is the way I view things. I learned a lot in these field. Earning, trading, investing, gambling and subtle things like trust, faith, knowledge. Through time in my opinion I think my attidute in Bitcoin has not change but Bitcoin changes me. Even if I stay longer into this thing as long as it helps me and benefit from it I will treat BTC as I treat it years ago.

The first time I have heard about Bitcoin I thought it was a online currency for criminals to use to make transactions online. The more I read about it, I believed that it could be a game changer in the world of finance. As I went into it deeper and deeper, I am into the thinking of it being a censorship resistant, decentralized, value transfer system that is perfect for the dark market participants. I believe they are also classified as criminals.

The first time I interested in bitcoin is because it offer a great side income for me, but after I knew bitcoin for a long time now I see bitcoin as a currency and investment, I see so many potential in crypto currencies i believe in the future crypto will be a very useful currency

Same as the above statement I too got into bitcoin considering it an additional earning. Soon after that in a short it gave the knowledge and got interested to know more. Now I give importance as a earning, investment and mainly for gambling need.

I started using it because I wanted to buy oxy on Silk Road. I started mining to collect some coin for a purchase but before I could buy online I found a nice family doctor with a willing prescription pad so I didn't need Silk Road. The price started climbing so I got heavily into mining and hoarding coin. I believed all the hype about bitcoin for a long time until I started watching every respected member of this forum slowly turn into scammers and crooks. Now I just want to guess the top of bubbles and make as much money as I can. I thought we were due for a downswing so I sold 230 btc as soon as it went over $1,200. If we go below $800 I'll buy them back, rinse, repeat.

in the first place I wasn't really interested in bitcoin, I even didn't trust my friend to tell me that I can earn momey trough bitcoin. then I when I need money, I tried to join a siGnature campaign. then I earn bitcoin to be converted to fiat. time by time, I still think that way.

My first attitude when i learn about bitcoin is i can get rich quickly from it. Because you can earn while at home and just by depositing to some hyips or ponzis. And just by playing on those gambling sites with some amounts.

But i was wrong, i got scammed many times by those hyips and ponzis and lose too much money from gambling. So i've realize that what my parents are saying is correct. It is really not easy to earn money and we should spend it wisely. Bitcoin taught me that lesson so now i just spend my bitcoin when it is really needed.

At first I saw those zeros as something quite easy to fill up to 1 Btc, so I got working at it- microjobs, faucets,gambling,etc only to discover that 100 million satoshi is not all said and done and no thanks to all manners of scam programs and wallets. The cloud is a bit settled now except that the looming civil war between miners and exchanges is one thing that threatens every milestone Bitcoin have covered over its eight years of existence.

It has actually changed a lot i remember in 2014 or something i saw a video on youtube on how to mine bitcoins i knew it maybe useless but you simply to try. That person explained everything on how to mine calculate electricity fees , he was also giving away i think 0.1 btc and that time the value of it was 30$ i guess. And then years passed on and bitcoin touched 1000$ i never really knew bitcoin could do something like this bad then. That was a really big mistake i made but i don't regret because i didn't expect anything like this would happen in future.

When i started this bitcoin journey i never believed in the economic structure as well i was busy with my business end and i started concentrating after 2014 when i heard that the valuation had reached an all time high and during that period i was learning about all the aspects and then i saw the price going down just like that and end up at $240 or around that price and even then i was not sure that the price would reach $1k level once again but i started purchasing small amounts and the last few months were the golden time of bitcoin where it tripled my valuation and sold off everything when it hit $900 during holiday season thinking to buy again and i had to wait till now to buy back again and still i am not sure whether it is a good buy ,either way i am in profit.

When I first heard about it I saw it as a way to make a quick buck. I didn't know why people were buying it, but the volatility was so tempting.
I started reading about it and got really interested with the technology and the way it operated outside the banking system. The more I read the more I liked the idea and here I am, no longer trading my coins, just holding and hoping for it to become much more popular.

When I heard about bitcoin I was very skeptic.
I didn't trust it much and almost forgot about bitcoin.
When I heard again about bitcoin, and heard stories how many people earning good money with bitcoin, I became curious and started research.
Very soon I realized that bitcoin is not just some kind of virtual money, or new payment way, but more like way of life.
First time ordinary people own money and their financial future.
We have great opportunity to change our lives and get rid from greedy banks, governments, tax offices etc.
I really looking forward to day when I will have enough bitcoin to start new life, free from everyday stress at work and in society.

Bitcoin really change my perspective on investation subject so I can't just abandon new investment that occur especially on this digital year as we know technology getting advance over time
Luckily with bitcoin really help me to operate my shop to keep alive

Before coming into the bitcoin world i was very much active with the stock market and in the beginning it was really hard for me to understand the market situation and how they evaluate things but then i started to stick with the basics because in this world with every FUD there is a movement in the market so you have to be clear about it rather FUDs wont move the market in the real world. ;)

Well 4 years ago I was not the kind of dude who will save money and keep it for long since I am fascinated with other stuff and what's important for me is that how would I impress other people with what I make. Ever since I got my hands on bitcoin I started to feel like I need to save in order to get more. 3 years after here I am now, being so thrifty that I only find satisfaction in getting money and it breaks my heart to spend money every time.

My first experience with Bitcoin was not so good. Most businesses I got interested in happened to be scams and the price of Bitcoin was going down fast. I had some money invested but all my early ones seemed to turn into losses. I decided to hold and not care about the price, hoping that it will slowly recover and it did. Now I'm happy that I got into Bitcoin and I hope it continues to grow.

Well at first was, as with probably some more people here, the thought of getting some quick big money and yes those were the faucets back then lol but as the time passed, I've became interested in cryptography, programming and trading. So now that's my main hobby, and also provides me some money on the side to cover some bills. :p

So overall, from quick money to an interesting hobby.

Bitcoin has changed everything about my financial life. It's made me locate other streams of income, it has shown me how to send remittances globally at competitively low rates. It's granted me 24/7 accessibility to my funds in my wallet and has ensured my anonymity when I gamble online so basically I'm free to do a lot since my introduction to Bitcoin.

A lot less excited

Well bitcoin boost my confident and it helps me to be more positive about my financial needs,
It really helps me in many way not just in my financial needs.

I started bitcoin as a fun activity where I can made some money, but after a long time I am in bitcoin world there are so many people like to used bitcoin and there are so many industry still hasn't been touched by bitcoin, so I think there are so many things that still can be developed using crypto currencies, now I see bitcoin as business opportunities

I was excited when I inquired about bitcoins and I made further research Then I realized that a lot of opportunities abound in Bitcoin I  inquired about how to get satoshis using faucets but the satoshis I earned in faucets was very small and time wasting I was discouraged but when I came across this site I got a lot of information on how to earn Bitcoins Then my attitude changed for better.

Definitely in my case it is to get rich quick.

I strongly believe that a lot of other people have started the same way as i started, naive, immature, thinking bitcoin is the way for them to get a million dollars in no time, thinking that they have the perfect strategy in gambling, etc etc.

I first looked at bitcoin when i looked at options to gamble anonymously online, as a result i came across sites such as PrimeDice and Just-Dice.

I was spending up to 6 hours a day on these sites just reaping faucet and chatting away, and when i had that 0.1 BTC i would deposit and lose it all.

Definitely not a good idea to gamble, there is no perfect strategy. House always wins.

However bitcoin gives you the opportunity to essentially bet against the gamblers as well, which means that you can be the house. That way, you can win in the long run instead of losing all the time.

from the moment i learned that bitcooin was minable, i loved it to did, i was searchign a way to do minign with my computer long time before bitcoin, but i fund nothing for what iw ant

bitcoin was what i was earching for all those,year, to bad i discovered it too late and i was not able to mine it at the beginning, but i still used my first gpu gaming to mine something in 2013

then when i learned that it ws still possible to indirectly mine it with altcoin, i got excited

About two years ago I entered in the bitcoin but I was totally stupid in this field .
One of my friend at Facebook which belongs to the different state , explained me about the bitcoin .
Once he said that a site cheated with him then j Became fully fear that if a site can scam a fully experienced person then what I am , at the same time I exited from the bitcoin but again I entered in this field after a long study about its advantages .
I entered in the last of the 2016 again and I see that there is a legit way to make money from the trading and Mining ( hardware and cloud from hashocean that ran away with scam :( )

I have learned a lot from using bitcoin.

The biggest lesson I've learned is: never invest in ponzis.

My first usage of bitcoin is when I looked at this supposedly amazing program which mined oil from the Middle East and produced amazing returns that accounted to something like around 20% per week.

I was thrilled to hear that, i spent all my days investing and reinvesting, until eventually the program died.

I think this told me that there will never be a free lunch in this world. Everything comes at a cost.

Honestly I entered into bitcoin as a payment processor because I ran few online freelancing jobs and few of my employees asked for bitcoin payments. After that I came knowing about this forum and find many earning opportunities associated with bitcoin ecosystem.

Now I believe I can make dollars with bitcoin related things toward the journey of finding myself richer (but not in quick time, I am sure). When we are coming across more opportunities, it is obvious that our attitude will get changing over time.

I had dollar signs in my eyes at first. I quickly discovered something I never expected; that the ability to print money is perhaps the most influential form of power there is.

And when I discovered how that power has been abused, and how the abuse is hidden from the public, I've never looked back.

When i first heard about bitcoin i didnt put much attention in it, i created web wallet because it is required by an investment program that i want to join in but when that investment ended, my friend told me that bitcoin is actually useful and its not just a digital currency. i became interested especially after i knew that you can earn money through it by investing. i didnt think of being rich quick, step by step i know that all my efforts will be worth it if you keep on achieving your goal.

It's actually difficult to try something new to our life specially when it involves our money that would be put at stake in order to try that thing. However, this wrong decisions shouldn't be regret by someone since choosing to avoid risk is the first choice of someone who want to protect their capital. Yet, people who aren't affraid to risk their money are those people who succeed because they tried something that could give them a lot of advantages.

I remembered before I get involved into bitcoin I hate reading, I am very much impatient in reading especially bitcointalk forum more on reading, so when I saw it, I said bitcoin was not in line to my profession. but I found out that there are someone getting profit into bitcoin, even I hate reading, I decide to know more about it, meaning its all money matter why I joined, then bitcoin teach me how so many tihngs so now I like reading in the forum. ;D

The more that I use Bitcoin, the more I learn that Bitcoin has plenty of things that could be useful in things beyond Bitcoin.
For instance; Economically, Bitcoin has different news posted within the forum from people from everywhere in the world. Learning new things about the current situations and the past things like the Cyprus Banking Situation made a bunch of people well informed on what's going on behind the scenes.

my first time attitude is i am really curious about bitcoin, i search more in many websites with the info about bitcoin, first time i really don't know that bitcoin can make some dollars but after i learn more, i realize that bitcoin can help me to make some money too. first time i am confusing what will i am gonna do with my bitcoin. from collecting bitcoin, what i need to do to have a cash in my bank account, its like a story for me and i am glad that i am in bitcoin world now and i want to use bitcoin no matter how long it would be.

The more I learn about bitcoin, the more I know that it has and will benefit me in the long run. Like I'm just earning bitcoin from signature campaign which is a lot, but I can use it  to trade to earn more. So it gives me an alternative that while I'm learning about it, I was able to earn as well. So the potential to profit is there, you just have to learn it the hard way. But that is more rewarding for me. So I think I will be using it for a long time.

I first came to know about bitcoins from my friend , well at first i ignored it but at the last when i came to hear about it in tv series i became more interested in it .i called my friend and came to know about this forum .well it was then came to know i can earn some bucks from this .well reading about it , writing about it made me more and more knowledgable day by day .

Well I become more confident than I was before I earn some Bitcoin,
I don't know maybe because I found it looks cool to have some Bitcoin or maybe I just got a new bunch of friends because of Bitcoin.

Honestly, when I first known about Bitcoin, I think of it as some kind of scheme, or gimick so I let time pass by and then I stumbled on it again and saw how many people are into it.  Then I came to a conclusion that this gimick will help me in my financial status.  I never thought of Bitcoin as get rich scheme but rather a new horizon of opportunities.  And I seen that it is true, but somehow to get into that opportunities I have to learn the needed knowledge to take advantage of it.  And still learning about these opportunities.

It definitely did. I preferred to stay on FIAT side when i was making trades on the exchanges for a long time because i was afraid to lose money while holding bitcoins.

But in time, I saw that i was actually losing money while i was holding FIAT :-\ When i realized that, i told myself whatever the fuck happens, i won't cash out my bitcoins, never. (maybe till i buy a house or smth)

I broke that promise when the price was 1040 or smth, and it rose to 1270 after i did the trade. I was fucked again. I saw the 1270 bubble and posted in my graphs, but if i had bitcoins at that time, i probably wouldn't have done the trade because my emotions would have kicked in.

Long story short; fuck trading. Hold them till you need them.

I am working hard for small wage so at first, for me Bitcoin was something that give me dream to get rich one day ( something like lottery, i am playing one lottery ticket weekly so i can dream about getting jackpot). But as time pass, i am actually starting to use Bitcoin more and more as real currency. It is stunning technology and i am sure it will be revolution of money (online and in real world.)

when I was started into bitcoin I don't know anything in online, it was a disaster to me how am I gonna do it or how am I gonna undertand it quickly, but as time pass by Bitcoin teach me how to become resourceful, and to be economize too. And now I know how to save for my future through saving bitcoin on my wallets.

A revolutionary new payment system --> an entry level theft school for small time crooks --> a running joke for my friends and family.

Remember humans are incapable of detecting exponential growth until it is too late, e.g. the lily pond is only 12.5% covered with lilies on the 28th day, 50% on the 29th, and 100% on the 30th.

Crypto and blockchains are a fundamental shift of economics and society underway. Deflationary crypto-currency will correspond with (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1840706.msg18320659#msg18320659) a change from debt-based, industrial age to investment-based, knowledge age.

Don't be thrown off by that which you can't perceive objectively.

I can relate on the things you said you've experienced. Because like you i am also used bitcoin before on earning money not knowing the specific thing about bitcoin. I also do gambling because i thought i can earn on that but lately when i become aware on bitcoin true essence that is the time that i become aware on bitcoin forum so i reed different topic and i gain knowledge and idea on bitcoin. That is the time i do also signature campaign to earn on posting and reading in forum so i gain knowledge while i am earning through posting so for me that is a big thing. And then now i also know that you should have proper handling of bitcoin through wallet. So for now i am holding all of my bitcoin on coin.ph waller where i can do more things about bitcoin. So i guess all of us improve the way on using bitcoin as it improved also.

I started in bitcoin with the intention to make some additional money at first. Now my intention still the same, making some money as much as i can until either bitcoin dead or i have no more ways to make anymore money from bitcoin.

Like when i first started to earn bitcoin i was very happy.
I used to earn from signature Campaigns and at the beginning I used the post the maximum limit which the Campaign allowed.
Later on I got used to it and now i feel very lazy even to post the minimum amount.
Now when it comes to bitcoin completely earlier they used to get confirmed , the transactions used to get confirmed much sooner and the fees was less.
But now they have increased a lot and the conformation time has also increased , this makes me think a few times before using bitcoin

My attitude has very much been the same, but I definitely have seen the community shift gears in the last 2 or so years. The infighting has been a bit disheartening and the sense of us against the world has changed into us against us.

When I joined bitcoin, I was searching how to earn some money online. I found faucets and wanted to earn few bucks from it. I didn't had expectations to become rich and I was sceptical about bitcoin. When I joined bitcoin, it price was down to $200 and $1000 and more looked impossible and unachievable. In first months bitcoin looked like a bubble for me.
But later I started to believe in bitcoins, discovered bitcointalk, found more ways to earn bitcoin.
Also, when I was total newbie, I was really sceptical about altcoins, even litecoin, dogecoin and others which was popular then. I was afraid to keept these coins, because I was thinking that even top altcoins can loose all their value in few hours. Now it's looking really funny :D

i got into it just to see if one could indeed make money of my GPUs (a HD4850). seemed too good to be true. and i did it mainly to prove a point to my wife that our computers were not just a money pit :)

of course it did make some money and i was able to exchange it for USD in my bank account  via mt gox and dwolla.  and after a couple months i grabbed more gpus (HD6870, HD5830s) and built a mining rig. this was around 2011. went with gpus, then fpgas and finally early asics.

made a decent amount, had some nice vacations and bought some toys. didnt really save a lot as i was unsure of its long term viability. 

at this point i gpu mine (alts, convert most to btc but i do save some alts) to be part of the Grand Experiment. still cash coins in here and there but now im more into saving coin long term.

My vison to the bitcoin has been changing the more and more I learn about it, but the first time that I knew about it people told me that bitcoin was a type of currency that criminals and hackers use to make some illegal transactions, but when I looked deep into the information and searched more about it I found out about the truth most of the normal people ignore which is that bitcoin is a good thing and has quite the potential and quite the community that keeps it alive and rich.

almost all individuals encountered and experienced that curiosity about bitcoin including myself. in fact, I'm a silent type of a person before but when I got involved here in the forum I felt that I became talkative here, either I asked the audience in the thread section or I'm the who respond who has a concern question about what he/she want to know.

My attitude has changed a lot since knowing bitcoin. I know that bitcoins do not have physical form and this is the drawback I heard from someone. But as I learn bitcoin, so can easily converted to fiat so it you want to buy something that requires physical money, all you have to do it convert it to cash then you can use it to buy.

When I started it I was all about earning a few extra cash for purchasing some misc stuff and I wanted to learn about the tech. I am now wanting to get at least normal salary in Bitcoin rather than earning just a few dollars. As for the tech, I am still wanting to learn more. I was also excited every time I was about to recieve Bitcoins, but now it is just normal and.an everyday thing.

I have changed a little bit my opinion about bitcoin as I have been part of the community, at first bitcoin to me was nothing more than a useful way to send money overseas, then as I read about the technology I became enthusiastic about it.

My attitude is very positive and upon reading those people that made riches with bitcoin it encouraged me to get rich but I don't intend it to become fast. It has a lot of purpose when I entered to bitcoin, earning while learning.


Well when it comes to learning, I'm trying to make myself get along with the advancements and I'm still learning from the experts.


It's a normal thing once you are starting to learn on it, we just want to go to the next level.

Been around bitcoin for just over 2 years now.  It was kind of a mystery at first as to exactly how to get it and so forth, but I'd been watching the price for a year before actually buying any.  I don't think my attitude has changed drastically, except that I now view it as an awful currency but a great instrument for speculation.  I'm never looking to get rich with it.

But I'm more positive about its prospects for survival, I can say that.  I thought bitcoin would have died by now.  I honestly thought it was a fad, like Flooz was in the late 90's.

It has actually changed me a lot. It has made me realize that if i need more profit i need to buy more bitcoins and for that i need to work more and be more productive. I have invested in many places and have good decent returns also  but bitcoin is the best one , nothing to do , not much knowledge needed if i just want to invest and got to know more about different altcoins.

since i get into bitcoin, i've become a better person. like ive become hard working. hard working to earn. i threw hardwork for reading more about bitcoin especially articles for trading. cause im want to learn more about it.

Not much, I was in love with this technology and when I analyse myself today, I find the same. I was using PayPal before getting into cryptocurrencies but then central bank of my country laid some serious restrictions on the use of PayPal which caused an extra cut in my profits. Since I am in the international business I had to pay extra fees to get money in my hands, well it was not the tax but other charges and efforts and time.

I don't do any illegal activity thus I was not happy to pay extra charges, I tried bitcoin to see if there are any difference and boom. It was not only profitable on monetary aspects but also on other aspects of time and efforts.

At first, my relationship to Bitcoin was mild, flirtatious and purely for gaming, entertainment and sometimes profit, but now I have grown fond of the masterpiece that is the blockchain and all of its clever pieces.  Why have we given so much control to banks for so many generations without noticing they have their fingers crossed behind their backs as they edit the ledgers and reconcile the books, with our money?  I love bitcoin more than ever for its clever way of saying " no thank you " to big banking.   Well at least it removes much of the abused power.

When I started into bitcoin, my only reason was I want to earn money only. By that time I want to earn big at once in bitcoin, but that's not possible for a newbie like me unless I have a lucky charm, LOL ;D
It's been less than a year before i came up in the postion to earn bitcoin. In other words bitcoin helped me out to become patience into learning from being impatience before in anything. Then I learned how to be economize ;)

See when i first heard about the forum,
I was very excited and filled with enthusiasm to earn bitcoins.
And I had already made many long term plans.
I had also posted rigrously for a long period of time.
But now I have slowed down a bit,
Due to the increasing transaction fee which is legit irritating.
Also the fact that the transaction take a lot of time to confirm.

We all felt excited when the first time we join the bitcoin community and I don't get why you have been let down with the fees . The fees are just less than $1 or cents . People who have their transaction stucked is when they'd use a crappy wallet or didn't study that much regarding the fees .
And you said that you want to earn right? If you produce a decent earnings per month you will just get used and adapt to the fees . So go ahead and pursue that plan of yours . Just be sure that you have make as many back up plans as possibe cause the industry of cryptocurrencies is very much unpredictable . You won't know what will happen .

When i get into bitcoins my first thing in my mind is to earn and get rich and get money real quick.And when im in bitcoin jobs already i thought that it will not be like that,everything will not go on my way of thinking.I learned that it is hard and i became patient through it.And now im living my earning in bitcoin

My opinion of bitcoin is more assured and certain the longer I am into it.

Basiccally i learn about the new technology in internet include bitcoin because bitcoin is something new in the internet and I don't think about the make money in the early with bitcoin
but today except getting new informations and knowledge about bitcoin and related with digital coins, i have got the money too via trading bitcoin and altcoins.

First I heard about Bitcoin long time ago when the price of 1 BTC was around $5. I just ignored the information back then. First of because I didn't have spare $5, secondly even if I had I thought I'd rather spend it on something else.

Second time just after the Silk Road bust. It was all over the news and I remembered that I heard already about this Bitcoin thing. BTC was less then $200 back then and I was planning to buy at least a $20 worth amount, but the price started to rise so fast, and before long it reached $1,200. Then I thought "If it goes back to $200 I'll definitely buy some."

Eventually, when the price went down to below $400 I decided to buy $20-$30 worth of BTC but no matter how hard I tried I didn't manage to find anyone who was ready to sell me that amount. The minimum you could buy on my localbitcoins was $50 worth of BTC. So then I haven't bought anything too.

And only a year later, when Bitcoin was around $240, I'd started collecting my first satoshis through various faucets.

I never participated in any activity that I am not 100% convinced.  Before I join the Bitcoin community, I have set myself up to trust it.  And it keeps going stronger even with all this political debate and FUD scattering around the internet about Bitcoin.  Unless  I have obeserved that Bitcoin is going no where, my attitude toward Bitcoin will not change.

The process of sending money from my computer is very different than then the norm.The whole paying things with Bitcoin is getting to an area where there's many people trying to use the coin to purchase a item online.
Bitcoin is one of the payment systems that allow regular people to have a feeling of holding a little bit of money. It seems like once thinner storage drives get made the people will have more money on them.

There is not much of an attitude change for me and i am in the bitcoin world for the past three years and it took a while for me to get started because i have to learn everything before commiting to anything and there was no exchanges in my country when i first started and it was difficult to use credit cards to purchase the coins and things really changed from that situation and i am carefully watching the recovery of bitcoin after the slide when i first came in.

It's only been 2 weeks since I first answered this post,  and my attitude towards bitcoin has yet again begun to shift.  Now I am feeling a sort of a nagging, impatient thing.   While the world slowly grows more fond of the beloved bitcoin, the unsinkable "titanic" that we trust, the blockchain, has slowed to a agonizing pace and I just want everyone to hurry up and get onboard. People, let's pick up the pace.  I realize this stance is obnoxious and probably less than insiteful.

I still love you Satoshi! 😍  I am a full supporter of the original creation, but even Satoshi admitted that the blockchain could be improved with larger blocks. 
 
So in the last 2 weeks my attitude has grown impatient.  That's all.

For the fast moving world, it has provided an solution to sought out the issues with the powerpacked technology which has been getting implementation in several sectors. This have changed the attitudeof few, it has been counting. Importantly it has given the self earning access which is not found much with other such innovationa.

I have always been into investing and it is an undeniable fact that bitcoin can be a powerful form of investment given its remarkable growth over the last few years. I have been into bitcoin for a little less than a couple of years and I cannot say that I have already familiarized myself fully with the ins and outs, much more on the very technical side of it. But I continue to have faith despite the drawbacks, the disagreements, and the volatility which makes it all the more unpredictable, and exciting in such a way.

I like the way Bitcoin is being transacted the smooth running of the wallet and the ability to cash my earnings through exchanger has changed my attitude toward bitcoin I am looking forward to globally acceptability of bitcoin, Payment of service with bitcoins had even made things easier for me in terms of online purchasing and rendering and selling of skills.

My first experience when i start using bitcoin is i see a future here and want to get rich quick and fast. But it's not easy as i thought, everything is not free on bitcoin, same as real money, we need to work to get that. I changed that bitcoin is a currency and it's not easy to get rich with bitcoin without hardwork.

Nothing the only change for me is the perspective through life and the earnings here in the internet because my perspective when I am not investing and not knowing the bitcoin is terrible because I ma not making money in my own, but know my earnings is the one that I am using to buy my needs. so bitcoin help me to give importance to money.

I used to think it was something like PayPal, until I started working on projects using it. I made a couple of webapps which ran on bitcoin nodes and tracked the bitcoin price. I understand now that bitcoin is one of a kind, with a huge community and a great philosophy.

I came to use bitcoins because im searching for things that may help me earn extra money online as a student because i want to buy things that my parents cant do for me and for my savings also.My attitude is just like other users when they start,im greedy at earning and i want only fast cash.And i learn that it takes real long time to earn money online.

My first attitude when knowing bitcoin is make some dollars for fun. But the development of bitcoin today, makes me also make an investment. Which had initially only wanted to make money on the internet for fun, be a substantial revenue. For rich from itcoin I guess I have not been able to it. Thank you

I think that is the majority why we are here (extra income, sideline job). Everybody wants to earn and that's why they are putting so much force on the keyboard or keypad just to type constructive posts even in late hours. But I think some people here are here because they want to learn something more especially the programmers. We all have a various of reason why we are here but the good thing is we all support the community.


The three fields you mentioned is in of the best way to earn more but hardest to learn, especially cryptography and programming, well I'm in electrical engineering field so I've only learned basic programming but I can solve the electricity cost. That's a nice move, you've learned something that beyond your expertise. It is a reminder that it's never too late to learn and the excuse like "I don't know how is just an excuse".

When I first started I was just curious to see how this will unfold. In the first 5 days I saw the price went down and I was very disappointed and I "gave up", I didn't use that money though because I was hoping for the best, and one day after the price started go high very quick and I was so excited. I'm still searching about Bitcoin and it's use cases, and I think is something that's beyond just money. Time will tell :)