Your first bitcoins came from.. (faucets aside)

[dothebeats]

My first bitcoins came from Primedice signature campaign way back September 2014. From then on, I started to buy a little amount of btc every month and I have never failed to do so for the past 10 months.

How'd you get your first bitcoins (faucets aside) and what did you do to them?

[jaberwock]

I bought them, and used them to trade.

Was not that much, but enough

[unamis76]

Mine came from altcoin mining...

[ahmedjamal1998]

Mine came sig campaigns over here which allowed newbie accounts 

Then selling domain names and vcc. 

[Za1n]

My first Bitcoin also came from mining an alternate coin, putting those on an exchange and trading them for bitcoin.

[batesresearch]

My first Bitcoin actually came from a friend back in 2012.

[Dire]

Bought them, which that first time really felt like jumping through hoops, especially with the fees that I also had to pay. Wished there was a Bitcoin atm near me. Would make life a lot easier.

Still remember my first payment too, I was worried they would fly off into nowhere.

[dothebeats]

My first Bitcoin actually came from a friend back in 2012.

The good ol' days when faucets can give 1-2 bitcoins per user. I wish I could go back in 2011-2012. I'd definitely rape every faucet available back then.

[Amph]

mining with a 7950 back in 2013 when diff was around 7M(for bitcoin), i was mining directly on a p2pool great reward, i remember 0.04 per day as a top reward

[RitzBitzz]

local bitcoin.

[ajrah]

I got my first bitcoin from one of the oldest bitcoin casino, strikesapphire.com , I played from its poker free roll every day. I also had few mBtc left in my dragon tale account, but I can't play it anymore due to low specs of my PC.

[foodstamps]

I bought my first Bitcoin on ebay. I was pissed to find out later that the $30 I paid for 1 BTC(actually a 1 BTC mt.gox voucher) was much higher than the market rate.....

[ammy009]

My first bitcoins come from a BTC faucet site. It gave 0.005 BTC per individual request. But, one person once request limitations applied.

[nerFohanzo]

Mine came sig campaigns over here which allowed newbie accounts 

Then selling domain names and vcc. 

Actually I bought my first bitcoin and then I joined signature campaign and started to earn bitcoin regularly by posting in it. And till date I have made descent number of bitcoins and want to keep on growing bitcoins as we believe that price will reach to the moon in coming years.

[prodigy8]

I think i have heard and earned the first satoshi in faucet, i think it was freebit.coin. it was interesting

[Pathi]

USb miners! I think I had about 40 at 1 time.

[BLKBITZ]

mining.

[AgentofCoin]

I have to say (even though you said faucets aside) is I got my first few satos from a faucet in very late 2013.
Without faucets I probably would have never got my hands on enough to mess around with and ultimately learn about Bitcoin.
I'm stating this because this is the reason why I think BTC faucets are more important (especially for adoption) then some members here think.

But aside from that, my real first decent amount of BTC was from a good old gambling whale named LiKa Shing.
Those were the days, Lol.

[prodigy8]

USb miners! I think I had about 40 at 1 time.

You remembered me when i bought 25 USB miners which was bitcoin and litecoin at the same time i think.
They were intersting to test the mining itself

[GrandmaJean]

my firsts bitcoin came from a casino which i believe is called betchain, i got there a non deposit bonus of 0.005 and somehow managed to rollover 35 times, all in all i withdrew 0.06 bitcoins what was one of the biggest achievements in my gambling life