When was your first "awareness" of Bitcoin/How were you made aware?

[Parazyd]

Heard of it last April on the news, citing negative reports to be avoided, until my female colleague introduce this to me and tried it out last month. 

And, how do you like Bitcoin since then?
I hope you are enjoying all the good and bad things that's happening. It keeps me entertained at least

[Pathi]

Summer of 2013. I was looking for some encryption software and an article on Bitcoin showed up in the search results. I got into mining shortly after that.

[Blawpaw]

My first approach was in the ends of 2011 and early 2012. However, my first thought was, this is just another f*)%$ Ponzi scheme nad didn't mind about it until early 2013. That was my worst mistake... I should have started to mine in 2011 :\

[quentincole32]

Back in 2008, 2009, 2010 I was a standard irc user and would always type /list to see all channels on a given irc network.
I would sort by most populated channels first.  This was my weird OCD process, to see what projects, and technologies people were interested in on Undernet, Dalnet, eventually freenode.

Before bitcoin related channels existed on freenode, I used this method on some irc server(the network I long forget), and saw #bitcoin with about 130 people in it.
I joined, and as soon as I joined everyone was spamming their wallet addresses.  I asked why, and I was told people were sending 10, 50, 100,300, and other random amounts to BTC to each other when they were worthless, in turn strengthening the network.  This was late 2009.  This is when Bitcoin had no value.

I promptly asked what Bitcoin was about, and after getting the explanation from a few, I said: "Why would I use Bitcoin, when I can use debit cards online", and/or cash in person?
Then the person that responded said: Do you want to take part in global financial disruption, and become the new elite?

I promptly laughed, and said to myself, "wtf is this sh**", and left the channel.

Fast forward to mid to end 2010, is when I finally started taking it seriously after seeing early applications being shaped, and the beginning undertones of organized crime being interested in it.
When you know the darkside gives something a serious look, you know the early adoption means it has value.

Setting that 'dark notion' aside, I saw it for what it was.  I got in early, but not early as I could of.

Does anyone have any stories similar to the irc scenario?

begining of 2014,i'm early bitcoin adopter,start to somewhere. feel in love with bitcoin when i was finished my college,and start earning to answer demand of my life,and start to think that bitcoin a good future,and have a plan to do more with bitcoin,i wish i can do something bigger with bitcoin in 2016.

[HarHarHar9965]

Summer of 2013. I was looking for some encryption software and an article on Bitcoin showed up in the search results. I got into mining shortly after that.

Thats good. In my case I heard through my friend who is working along with me in my company. Just he came to me We had discussion about international currencies and its value. that was time I heard about bitcoin from him.

[Rizky Aditya]

This topic has been made over and over. I guess I will just tell you guys my story again. So pretty much..... my friends told me about Bitcoin and I loved it as soon as I started to use it.

[enhu]

I believe  I haven't move to the current city I live in today but I can't remember which year and which site I've read about bitcoin to which I ignore it at first. I was working as a tech guy of an outsourcing company. I end up ignoring it until an article once again i think from slash.org discussing about the value that reach about 1k.  Thats when I tried learning more about btc.

[avw1982]

My first approach was in the ends of 2011 and early 2012. However, my first thought was, this is just another f*)%$ Ponzi scheme nad didn't mind about it until early 2013. That was my worst mistake... I should have started to mine in 2011 :\

Alright! I came to know about Bitcoin 2 years before from my college mate. First he explained about cryptography and how its working on international forces then He asked me Do you bitcoins I asked him what is that. He replied as all about bitcoins. I just wonder and then I start read about bitcoins after that

[bitraine]

the first time i saw bitcoins  back in 2014 while im looking for online extra income.  but i ignore btc and didnt got interested in buying some of it due to its high price. and im thankful i didnt invest in crypto that time is a peak  then go all the way down to $200 mark

i become aware  of bitcoins by august this current year reading articles and joining the bitcoin comuunity reading news bout bitcoins,and its good so far because the price is increasing rapidly.

[mad.enchantment]

I first became aware of bitcoins in december 2012, not sure of the date but coinbase was just launched, generally been a fan of online money earning despite of it's inpracticality, seen one of coinbase old promo's (the first one I believe) offering 0, 1 Btc (around 2 USD at time) for new users. Spent a while looking around to understand what bitcoin is since there wasn't so much about like now.

[pereira4]

Probably 2013 in the midst of the epic rally, first time I ever opened the Bitcoinwisdom tag it was probably at around 600 dollars, and I saw it go to 1000+ dollars in front of my eyes, I still remember the moon guy gif in MtGox. Gool ol times. I had 0 Bitcoin by then and if I had I would still have held.

[tiggytomb]

Not early enough disappointingly, if I was a couple of years earlier I would have been able to mine a good few but I only came on board the end of 2013.

[Mr. Forum]

I was made aware of the bitcoins 3 years ago through the work i was doing and it entailed research in digital based currency. I however had not been able to participate in the trading because I was not sure if the deal will work out. A year later, a friend of mine who is a busy bitcoin trader confronted me and helped me go about the issues of the coins. The benefits among other advantages. He has been my mentor in the bitcoin trading to date.

[PakistanHockeyfan]

I'm not all that certain. A couple friends mentioned Bitcoin to me. I also had a boss that dealed in it. Now I have a business that deals in it.

[elizabethqueen]

Back in 2008, 2009, 2010 I was a standard irc user and would always type /list to see all channels on a given irc network.
I would sort by most populated channels first.  This was my weird OCD process, to see what projects, and technologies people were interested in on Undernet, Dalnet, eventually freenode.

Before bitcoin related channels existed on freenode, I used this method on some irc server(the network I long forget), and saw #bitcoin with about 130 people in it.
I joined, and as soon as I joined everyone was spamming their wallet addresses.  I asked why, and I was told people were sending 10, 50, 100,300, and other random amounts to BTC to each other when they were worthless, in turn strengthening the network.  This was late 2009.  This is when Bitcoin had no value.

I promptly asked what Bitcoin was about, and after getting the explanation from a few, I said: "Why would I use Bitcoin, when I can use debit cards online", and/or cash in person?
Then the person that responded said: Do you want to take part in global financial disruption, and become the new elite?

I promptly laughed, and said to myself, "wtf is this sh**", and left the channel.

Fast forward to mid to end 2010, is when I finally started taking it seriously after seeing early applications being shaped, and the beginning undertones of organized crime being interested in it.
When you know the darkside gives something a serious look, you know the early adoption means it has value.

Setting that 'dark notion' aside, I saw it for what it was.  I got in early, but not early as I could of.

Does anyone have any stories similar to the irc scenario?

my first awarnes is when i know i cn get bitcoin with free,and i can trade it to real money,its make me excited,and after several month collect bitcoin,i put a target,that someday i will buy smartphone with money from bitcoin.

[coaltin]

From the estranged website now shut: Mtgox

[Kakmakr]

You bring up a whole lot of old memories from the days when I frequented Irc channels. It was hectic and most topics did not attract my attention too. I were basically surfing for free Irc servers with copyrighted material to download. I missed the Bitcoin channel and would gladly turn back time and post my address there too.

A few hundred bitcoins would have been live changing at this moment. ^hmmmm^

[lrdeoliveira]

i heard about bitcoin back in 2013 when the bubble was very very big!

[1Referee]

It was at the end of 2012 where I heard for the first time about Bitcoin, and at the very beginning of 2013 I started to get a bit active. At that time I was still only interested in the financial side of Bitcoin for my personal gains. I think it was in February of 2014 where I started to get interested in the technology behind Bitcoin. And since that time I am a big supporter of Bitcoin.

[fuathan]

2012 with tech news on the internet...