Your first bitcoins came from.. (faucets aside)

[btvGainer]

I am not against faucet and believe them to be a good source of some fractions of bitcoin for newbies to play around but the truth is that you cant make a whole bitcoin solely doing faucet

[MFahad]

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?

mine came from a faucet game i was doing it at least 3-4 hours a day just to get several mbtc it was tedious but it was the start of me learning more about bitcoin.

Did you even read the title? It asks you about your first bitcoin aside from faucet.  
But if it is true that you could earn several mbtc for 3-4hours playing faucet, it was a big amount.

Yes at starting we feel we are earning too much from faucets, but gradually when we become experienced, we come to know that faucet earning is like no earning. Its  too less and very little

[mookid]

My first 1 BTC came from mining in 2012 with a medium range GPU, at the time, 1 BTC was worth about $13. Had I kept going...

[traderbit]

I can't remember exactly where my first bitcoin came from as i tried to do many things but probably i think it was when i lent my premium account in a hosting website for a dollar or less and received the payment on bitcoin.

[jukka]

i bought them to just test if this really works. and it worked

[LTU_btc]

As I remember, my first satoshi came from Coinbase, when they gived ~5000 satoshi registration bonus for phone number verification.

[Corenin]

I bought it as that was the only option left for me at that stage, I wanted to buy account to join campaign so I bought few bitcoin and bought account with that.

[somacoin]

I developed something for someone and agreed to getting paid in Bitcoin. That's how I earned my first 2 BTC.

[terman45x]

My first bitcoin came from faucet site which was then followed by a signature campaign and now I am earning descent amount of bitcoin on regular basis.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Well it was from faucets, but my first real bitcoin came from Coinbase.  I'll never forget, I had to wait like 6 days to actually get the coin.  Now I use Circle and it's instant and cheaper.

[co5hike]

Well it was from faucets, but my first real bitcoin came from Coinbase.  I'll never forget, I had to wait like 6 days to actually get the coin.  Now I use Circle and it's instant and cheaper.

Yeah we can never forget the amount that we earned for the first time, even if it was smaller it was important and very valuable.

[Evildrum]

First bitcoins came from a atm and I paid through the nose when it was going up and was about $700 a bitcoin.
I proceeded to lose that bitcoin but bitcoin also dropped not long after,so it was a double edged sword.

[Blackmet]

My first bitcoin i bought, my friend sold it to me for half of price and i was so happy.  Now i am trying to make another coin on signature campagin, so guys let's make more coins before halving comes and get rich!

[jackg]

Signature campaigns.
From 777coin (with Lightlord and Izanagi), mainly well maintained however slow.
Also earnt Bitcoin from investments in ponzis from the initial earnings from faucets.

[Hirose UK]

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?

I've ever gotten bitcoins from faucets, it was the first time if I'm not mistaken. I didn't hold it, I just kept it on wallet. Then I made new wallet  

after that I never earned butcoins from faucets. I just earn from signature campaign now.

[jak1]

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?

I received a nice tip of a whole Bitcoin, back when the price was close to $4/btc for the first time.
Trading BTC/USD was very exciting back then, and I made more than 5x profit over the next several months. Later, I spent them not expecting the eventual huge rallies above $32.

My first bitcoin was when I starting playing minecraft back in 2012; there was a server issuing out $10 in bitcoins to every player who reached the block placing/mining limit. The server is still up and running till today but the bitcoin funds are about to run out soon.

[avikz]

If not faucet, then my first bitcoin came from a signature campaign. the current campaign is the first campaign I have joined in and continuing till date.

Also I have invested few dollars in p2p loans though btcjam and getting regular returns.

[Doms]

The first fractions of BTC I had was acquired from buying. That was before I even found out about earning opportunities from faucets and signature campaigns. Now, I'm doing both signature campaign and buying on dips, and I recently traded altcoins then sold at a profit to buy more BTC.

[Xenophoto]

Since answering "faucets" is not valid here. I will jump to the time where I stopped doing faucets. I personally did Shared2Earn. It's a paid-to-click website and you earn $0.06 per click. I know it's a little big offer for a PTC but they really do pay. I earned 52$ from that PTC website. I was paid in Paypal not Bitcoins. And then I joined MyPayingAds investment site and I got scammed (of course). \

Then a friend of mine introduced me to Bustabit.com. I just did a global chat saying "How do you play this?" because I really don't get it. You might want to take a look at its gameplay and at first you'll really not get it. Then someone told me, its the user named on247 (not exactly sure though), "Here's 1000 bits, come try and play." Then that's when I got my first bitcoin.

To make it short and clear, I got my first 1000 bits from someone who tipped me on BustaBit.

[Edwardard]

My first bitcoins came when i first bought it from online trader. I bought few toys and games with that. it was a nice experience first time.