How did you first hear about bitcoin?

[Huobi-USD]

Are you a bitcoin fan?
Do you spend a lot of time on bitcoin? Reading news, trading, or even writing your own analysis.
But how did you first hear about bitcoin?
Is it some articles you read about? Or just from a friend who has traded bitcoin for a long time?

Share your experience with us.

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[OmegaStarScream]

My friends don 't know what Paypal is so ... yep , I don't remember what I was searching for on google but I finished on this 1.3 million viewer video and that's how I heard about it . (basically two videos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7opj5-32hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_PeYgMbiVk

I knew Bitcointalk before that but only from currency exchange section because I was looking for trade . then after viewing those videos the guy posted links to Bitcointalk (miners applications) and from that day I started asking etc .. and here I'am

[batesresearch]

Yeah I first heard / read about Bitcoin from a newspaper article and then around a year later a friend sent me one of my first bitcoins

[BlueTemplar]

It was a Slashdot article :

It might have read this one, but it's unlikely that I have paid any attention :
Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 (July 2010)

This article is when I most likely started taking interest in the subject :
WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul (December 2010)

And this one I remember so well, I remember the first comment!
Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity (February 2011)

In other words (Score:5, Funny)
by Monkeedude1212 (1560403) on Thursday February 10, 2011 @03:01PM (#35164902) Journal

The US Dollar will soon be worthless?

*ducks*

[pooya87]

Are you a bitcoin fan?
Do you spend a lot of time on bitcoin? Reading news, trading, or even writing your own analysis.
But how did you first hear about bitcoin?
Is it some articles you read about? Or just from a friend who has traded bitcoin for a long time?

Share your experience with us.

i am not completely sure about the exact first time that i heard about bitcoin , maybe it was in the news or some forum .

but the first time that i officially knew about bitcoin was in the year 2013 when everybody were mining bitcoin with their expensive GPUs and earning like crazy especially because of the great price rise of 2013
but unfortunately i started with bitcoin late, in 2014, and i am using it everyday since then.

[madonnino]

i discovered btc in 2010-2011 reading a nice article on an econimic forum, i mined some coins, and then i stopped all.
I returned in btc in 2013 whit the bubble news

[titulng]

why don't you send bitcoins to anyone who share his story, just like yours in chinese forum?   

chinese exchanges are generous, I know.   

[sana9821]

im a real bitcoin fan though i usually like to gather it from various things or buy it and not spend it, i hope the price will go up in a few years and i will be rich at the end

[coinpr0n]

First heard about it from a Hacker News post. Even downloaded the client early on but didn't bother to read much about it - when the client started synchronizing and I saw it was taking a long time I uninstalled it. Stupid because it was probably early enough to still CPU mine with it.

[apriyani420]

i first heard about bitcoins from my local news as it said that shops are starting to accept new currency called bitcoins which popularity was booming at that time

[Possum577]

The first time, the news. Some article from some website. It used to be impossible for me to talk about with people, but it's becoming an ever increasing easier conversation to have with people, with friends, with family, with coworkers...it's a beautiful thing.

[Coins168]

first heard about bitcoin is from a news segment where a bunch of young businessmen are being interviewed on whats teh benefits of bitcoin and who currently uses it in our country. 5 years after that interview the acceptance of bitcoin somewhat increased in in our country.

[n2004al]

First time I have heard about bitcoin it was when I joined a promising site about three years ago. It was difficulties at the beginning with the wallet to create and to understand what was but reading some things in internet and wikipedia I was fascinated by him. Since that days I am a good fan of bitcoin and always try to find ways to have some more than I have.

[Enzyme]

I saw it on the internet although disregarded it until it hit around $700, I then heard about Dogecoin from a friend and became interested in crypto.

[GrandmaJean]

i first heard about it when news told a  story about a guy who threw away his hard drive with bunch of bitcoins and that he would have been a millionaire at that moment as the price was 1200 dollars each

[receh]

Discovered it sometime back in 2013 luckily just before it went UPP. However after it crashed down most of my craze was dead by then .

[Amph]

2013, i was having fun  of mining but the whole mining thing, unfortunately it has vanished...now i follow how bitcoin is doing every fucking day i watch its price because the price is its health


reading about good news only don't interest me anymore, i want to see the impact of their investment on the price otherwise what they said it's pointless, like i said the price is important

[Pursuer]

I read about bitcoin on a forum and completely by accident then I started searching more about it and I end up here now

[Somekindabitcoin]

I heard about Bitcoin on one forum about making money online ( no longer interested in this, trolls ) and one new user posted something about bitcoin faucets ( they were giving freakin' big amounts compared to today's rates, but rate for USD was lower. I got high amount of BTC just from faucets and later from referrals, but then I gambled it all away

[randy8777]

it was mentioned in a very popular talkshow here. that's when i got interested in bitcoin. it was a tech dude explaining what it was and why it may be a very important alternative to banks.