Your first bitcoins came from.. (faucets aside)

[investspot]

My first 0.05BTC is from a referral commission in a hyip program.

That's cool. I wonder what hyip program pays in Bitcoins.

Bitcoin is more and more popular in the hyip business. Here's a list of hyip programs that pays in bitcoin http://www.investspot.biz/BitCoin-HYIPs.html

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[novadragon]

My first bitcoin, I get from PTC sites that BTCCircle

but now the site is gone

[PolarBear]

A Faucet

[omahapoker]

My first bitcoins were bought through localbitcoins since it was suggested to my. The exchanger isn't doing it anymore but im happy i did it.

[flock123]

My first bitcoins came from faucet sites and I think, I get 0.001 BTC from it 

[umaOuma]

I have bought my first bitcoin and then started using faucets for a little bit but I just got some dust in my wallet, and the rest come from signature campaigns.

Even I bought my first bitcoin from localbitcoins and then started to earn from signature campaigns. But when I came to know that you can also gamble using bitcoins I was very much excited. As I haven't gambled in real life with fiat so wanted to have experience of gambling once in a lifetime. I gambled, I lost though  but it was an learning experience for me.

[Snorek]

My first bitcoins came from faucet sites and I think, I get 0.001 BTC from it 

You can see clearly in the op title that faucets do not count as faucets are not valid way of earning bitcoin. I think there are no faucet on earth which can give you whole 1 BTC in your lifetime.
And my first bitcoin similar to op  came from Primedice signature campaign way back September 2014. It was an experiment and I think it went pretty well.

[maokoto]

I have not get 1 full BTC yet, but about 0.5 from zapchain posting and doing microjobs on Bitcoinget.

[stromma44]

I bought my first bitcoin from localbitcoins. And I joined signature campaigns and started to multiply my bitcoins, though lost few of them in Gambling, but recovered in the next. But Signature campaign is the good way to earn bitcoins and today I already have more then 3 BTC in my wallet. So now dreaming to make it 6 as soon as possible.

[Frosck]

Bought them from localbitcoins with almost no experience but everything went fine, it was no more than 30$ or so by the time.

[nickhiggins123]

Well I was a newbie but I heard mining was the way to go. I ended up buying a "lifetime contract" through Genesis-Mining with my Visa card. I then had to wait 30 days for my first payout and began trading altcoins as during this 30 days I learned quite a bit. ;] Oh, I still receive payouts to this day from my "lifetime contract", loll..

[BTCLovingDude]

my first bitcoins come from faucets but if i want to exclude them from my stash then i have to say it is coming from signature campaign now.

[favdesu]

I bought my first bitcoin from localbitcoins. And I joined signature campaigns and started to multiply my bitcoins, though lost few of them in Gambling, but recovered in the next. But Signature campaign is the good way to earn bitcoins and today I already have more then 3 BTC in my wallet. So now dreaming to make it 6 as soon as possible.

It's very interesting to see that many signature / faucet whatever users tend to gamble. I wonder why?

[Gilboa]

Dwolla/Mtgox 2 punch combo

[Benjig]

From ripple, received free ripples and then exchanged for btcs. 

[bitcollins85]

My first bitcoin come from altcoin exchanges

[GrandmaJean]

I remember mining some bit coins a while ago also besides that I earned it from trading bitcoins for real money on different exchanges and so on

[giustone]

My first bitcoin come from virwox.
After I make bitcoins with stellar project.
Now I make bitcoins,with signature campaign.

[Fishbones78]

My first Bitcoin came from doing surveys at Bitcoinearn (it was called something like that), although now I do various trades and jobs around the forum.
My BitcoinTalk profile is also flooded with sig. campaigns, shhh.

[eternalgloom]

Bought them with Paypal through Virwox, paid quite a bit of fees on it.
Luckily, I've found better ways to get Bitcoins now.