Long story short, since i must have timed out after telling a long epic story of my start with Bitcoins, back in March 2011 my friend introduced bitcoins to me because of my constant ranting since 2008 of ending the Fed and the central banking system yada yada, pro Ron Paul and libertarian rants blah blah.  

So it took me all of 5 minutes to understand it and it seemed too good to be true. Went back and forth about mining and buying some @$2-20/btc   til June 2011 Mt Gox got hacked and scared us off.  

Fast forward to Oct 2nd 2013... Silk Road bust... bitcoin as payment... $1.3 billion usd of transactions... members anonymous... founders bitcoins unable to touch by FBI... btc worth $121/btc...  

Called everybody and their mothers mother, which i guess would be their grandmother... anyway, and told them to buy. I was called a crazy, nothing new to a pro Ron Paul/Libertarian end the FED crazy, so ended up winning a Casascius silver 10btc coin fully loaded on Oct 8th!   Also have a couple other Casascius bitcoins, a 2011 ver 2 1btc and a 2013 0.5 btc.

Bitcoin is like digital gold, digital cash, and a revolution all in one.  

Hmm, this is good to know. I just joined Coinbase a little over a week ago, originally to buy and transfer bitcoins from there to BTC-E,  and was hoping to get in on the massive TURD DUMP when BTC went from $340ish straight down to $260. I had already bought my first BTC from there... 10btc @ $324usd... and the next day... DUMP! At first i freaked out a little, but then quickly realized i could buy cheap! So i hit the buy button for another 10btc @ $260 and it said i could not buy more until my first transaction was complete in a week!!!! Gahhhhh  Oh well, you snooze you lose. 

Hello Bitcoin world. This is my first post.

-Meat