What's your story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin?

[greBit]

I became interested in Bitcoin when I heard a bunch of guys making fun of it at a dinner.  I then heard about the crash of SilkRoads and the Bitcoin that was sold at auction.  I did not think nothing about it and blew it off for the longest.   About 6 months ago, I started to do some more research.  I have not been able to put it down since.

That's nice and also keep spreading the awareness about Bitcoin the more we spread it the more it gets exposure and I got to know about Bitcoin through a very funny coincidence.

[ausbit]

I became interested in Bitcoin when I heard a bunch of guys making fun of it at a dinner.  I then heard about the crash of SilkRoads and the Bitcoin that was sold at auction.  I did not think nothing about it and blew it off for the longest.   About 6 months ago, I started to do some more research.  I have not been able to put it down since.

That's nice and also keep spreading the awareness about Bitcoin the more we spread it the more it gets exposure and I got to know about Bitcoin through a very funny coincidence.

Its really a great thing to inform that I became interested in Bitcoins through one of my friend, whose life is running through the life of Bitcoins only. He is trading, gambling in Bitcoins and earns the money through Bitcoins only which makes us believe that Bitcoins is a real money.

[thejaytiesto]

I became interested in Bitcoin when I heard a bunch of guys making fun of it at a dinner.  I then heard about the crash of SilkRoads and the Bitcoin that was sold at auction.  I did not think nothing about it and blew it off for the longest.   About 6 months ago, I started to do some more research.  I have not been able to put it down since.

That's nice and also keep spreading the awareness about Bitcoin the more we spread it the more it gets exposure and I got to know about Bitcoin through a very funny coincidence.

Its really a great thing to inform that I became interested in Bitcoins through one of my friend, whose life is running through the life of Bitcoins only. He is trading, gambling in Bitcoins and earns the money through Bitcoins only which makes us believe that Bitcoins is a real money.

I have never heard of anyone in real life that knows about Bitcoins, so im pretty much alone with this. I can't really talk about it because it's pointless, they would never understand it, not until its mainstream. It's like trying to talk about internet in 1990.. you will only get weird stares.

[delliaerd]

ive become interested in bitcoin when my sister endorse it to me.  i think at first that its just a waste of time. but in time i guess im wrong.

If you think that bitcoin only waste of your time it's wrong. Fortunately you don't think like that anymore. Because if you know all of the advantage bitcoin it will change your mind about it.

[Boosterious]

As the forum thread title says, I am interested in your Bitcoin story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin? 

my story not good enough,just know bitcoin when stellar booming with their giveways,and i start corious about bitcoin,and finnaly earn some bitcoin from stellar,yes i think many people have same story.

[jt byte]

Faucets. I've always been intrigued by free money :3

Turns out though, they don't pay out very much xD. All they say is "Free bitcoin", not satoshi.

I then started mining until my laptop died, moved to bitcointalk at about the same time I invested in cloud mining and got into a signature campaign.

LOL i think a lot of people entered the scene with the faucets. Free money is appealing to all of us.
Just playing with some free bitcoin got me interested in bitcoin all the way.

[HostSurf]

I became interested when I saw it on the news. There was a report about it on the news where they explained that bitcoin was used for illegal stuff to launder money. That's when I became interested and looked up some information about it on the internet and what the concept of it was.

[naidray]

I became interested when I saw it on the news. There was a report about it on the news where they explained that bitcoin was used for illegal stuff to launder money. That's when I became interested and looked up some information about it on the internet and what the concept of it was.

That's really funny LOL
I mean, if it weren't described as something used for illegal stuff, there's quite a less chance of you getting interest in bitcoins, I assume.

What made me interested in bitcoins is that I saw potential. I've read about the past halving and see that many profited from it. I'm also a stock trader, well, used to. I saw there's trading also in bitcoin (with alts) so it's a plus for me too.

[chaosknight]

I am interested only in earning money, and when my friend told me that he is earning some good money from signature campaign, without thinking twice I jumped into it.

[Nimbulan]

As the forum thread title says, I am interested in your Bitcoin story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin? 

well 4 years ago bitcoin was till very young and my friend told me that someone bought pizza for thing named bitcoin so when i got home  i googled about it and  i learnt about bitcoin

and then i bought bitcoin for myself, and i forgot about it for year, then i discovered other cryptos so i started bitcoin trading to get more bitcoins from ones that i had

[cjmoles]

I first became acquainted with bitcoin in it's very early days thru a mailing list associated with the ARG Perplexcity.¹ I understood it's potential but I ignored it while I pursued more lucrative ventures. I was re-introduced to bitcoin around the end of 2010 beginning of 2011 while searching for alternative gateways to manage my online poker balances, and I received my first bitcoin (around ten dollars worth).  In April of 2011, I woke up, logged into my poker accounts, and was immediately faced with the FBI flash screen announcing that the domains had been seized for violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (every one of my accounts had been disabled on several sites).  That scared the hell out of me so I erased, reformatted, populated, erased, and reformatted my hard drive again. (lost my 10 bucks worth of bitcoin)

Time had passed and the feds didn't come for me so I found ways to start playing online poker again.  One of the poker networks I was playing on (Winning Poker Network) introduced bitcoin as a payment gateway less than two years ago (wish I would've kept those 15 bitcoin). The particular skins on the network I was playing on still require(d) KYC documents because they were/are primarily fiat based. So, I began looking at some of WPN's other skins that accepted bitcoin, and I found Betcoin.ag.  That's when the bitcoin bug really hit me!  Wow!   Here was a site that was part of a larger fiat based network (larger liquidity <-- that's important) which is strictly cryptocurrency based, and there's no KYC requirements!  If you understand the UIGEA, the history of the online poker boon, and US banking, then you'd know that's a really BIG WOW!  I'm still saying Wow!  Anyway, online poker introduced me to betcoin.ag, betcoin.ag introduced me to bitcointalk, and I've been strung out on the technology ever since. Poker<=>Bitcoin==Awesome



1) Interesting sidenote and connective history: I was first introduced to bitcoin while pondering this Perplexcity problem where the plan was to come up with a method to brute force RC5 encryption utilizing a p2p network client and searching for this guy.  <-- Still searching for this guy by the way....it's 1 of the last two puzzles to be solved. He holds a secret passphrase which will be given to whoever finds him.  More clues here.  If you find him due to my leads, give me shout a out in the credits somewhere please.

[PeRo]

I wanted to buy a Steam game, but I didn't have a PayPal or anything. Then I saw that 'Bitcoin is accepted as a way of payment' on a site which is selling Steam keys. Steam wasn't accepting Bitcoins then. I installed it and started using faucets, but I saw it isn't worth it and then I found this forum from where I got my first fraction of a Bitcoin.

I never studied Bitcoin much, my only aim was (and still is) to earn money for some goods(for now) and later for investments and trading with Bitcoins.

It's great for me that I can get money for goods by posting in forums rather than doing hard work, so here I am.   

[peta4e]

As the forum thread title says, I am interested in your Bitcoin story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin? 

well 4 years ago bitcoin was till very young and my friend told me that someone bought pizza for thing named bitcoin so when i got home  i googled about it and  i learnt about bitcoin

and then i bought bitcoin for myself, and i forgot about it for year, then i discovered other cryptos so i started bitcoin trading to get more bitcoins from ones that i had

You bought it 4 years ago that means you would have bought it at very less price, and you must be enjoying huge profits by now, as I only one year old here bought at $250  

[bitlancr]

I wanted to buy a Steam game, but I didn't have a PayPal or anything. Then I saw that 'Bitcoin is accepted as a way of payment' on a site which is selling Steam keys. Steam wasn't accepting Bitcoins then. I installed it and started using faucets, but I saw it isn't worth it and then I found this forum from where I got my first fraction of a Bitcoin.

I never studied Bitcoin much, my only aim was (and still is) to earn money for some goods(for now) and later for investments and trading with Bitcoins.

It's great for me that I can get money for goods by posting in forums rather than doing hard work, so here I am.   

This just points out the fact how important it is new merchants accept bitcoin. Indirectly it gives awareness about our beloved crypto coin. But it directly attracts new users too.

[Hugroll]

As the forum thread title says, I am interested in your Bitcoin story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin? 

i got interested in bitcoin a couple years ago when the high was extremely high. i think it was around $1000 per btc and btc was all over the news
then i started buying some bitcoin when the prices dropped below 500 because i thought i was gonna make tons of money.

[MWesterweele]

I got interested to bitcoin when i read an article on one fb group about the developer and pizza guy.I became interested when i read that the bitcoin the developer paid cost now over $1.5m i research about bitcoin and i saw it profitable and an extra source of income.So i started using bitcoins now i get my daily income from bitcoin.

[daringdiscovered]

I got interested in bitcoin last year when i start to think on how to earn my own money. As a college student we have many things that need and want to buy but we can demand for our parents to buy it because they're sacrifice is enough. I saw people in the internet bought cellphone, laptop, personal computer, etc. with the use of bitcoin so I thought maybe I will try what are they doing and buy my own laptop too.

[overthetop2011]

Because there is always  requirements of some kind of independent Currency in the world besides the FIATs, and BTC has got the chance .

[Sniper44]

i came across bitcoin so randomly, i read about it on some social media that i don't remember now but after that i started googling about bitcoin and reading more about it and until now i have only found many interesting things about bitcoin which made me stick around and invest in it.

[Cybertron00]

As the forum thread title says, I am interested in your Bitcoin story, how did you become interested in Bitcoin? 

i started interested bitcoin when i was 13 year old my uncle have bitcoin and he always opening it and when he see me he always said when i grow up i will try bitcoin like him cause its real money at first i won't believe cause as a child i only know coin and paper money but when he convert his money to dollar and cash-out it i started asking him how i can get bitcoin then he said he will teach me if i'm 18 year old so i wait for that time and now im here