First Bitcoin Experience?

[Slunt]

I kept hearing about it every so often last year in the news and it gradually got more and more of my attention. I bought 1 coin recently and plan to keep it for a bit and see where it goes.

[NikkieBeraj]

I heard about it like around 2011 ..when a site on the internet wrote about it. I remember how i laughed at it and decided to not buy 2500 bitcoin for 30 euros....now im slapping myself

[Lethn]

I was rage searching after finding out about the central banking system and how it all worked, I was looking for a way round it all and eventually stumbled across Bitcoin and after experimenting with it I have been messing with it since and sending/receiving money all over the internet.

[sandykho47]

First time i hear bitcoin is in December 2010
But, i start getting into bitcoin is in January 2013 

About 1.5 Years now 
But, i regret that i didn't start in 2010 
I c ould become rich now 

[bl4kjaguar]

I was researching "lawful money" and in my research I found this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4941.0

[john641]

Late last year I was having my morning coffee and browsing the Internet when I stumbled over an article about the guy who remembered he had mined some bitcoins ages ago and bought an apartment with the profits. I think that must have been the second or third time I had heard of it because I later found some text files with links to Bitcoin related websites for further research, including a spreadsheet with some quick figures for what my profit would be if BTC went to $150 (lol) but I couldn't remember much more than that so this was the first time I had really looked into it.

I had some money set aside for an interesting speculative asset, and Bitcoin was utterly fascinating the more I read into it. In fact I think I lost an entire weekend reading every article I could find and watching every video on YouTube about cold storage and hot wallets I could find. I had trouble sleeping. The implications were (are) just too big. I'm totally hooked.