How did you find out about Bitcoin?

[josiahgarber]

Just curious.  I found out through the Economic Policy Journal Podcast.  I was surprised it took me so long to find out about Bitcoin since I have been very involved in economics & computer science for quite some time.

Would love to hear how you found out about Bitcoin.

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[batt01]

I was doing a google search looking to my an acct for a website and found someone here selling for Bitcoin.

[foggyb]

My first real bitcoin disclosure was from episode 287 of Security Now in February 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPSwA2Itbs

I don't watch the show regularly, I just happened across it.  Within hours I was mining with my Core 2 Duo CPU & a Radeon 4870.

10 weeks later, I was running a 4 g/hash mining farm.  

[zThermal]

some podcast

[GiantCow]

First saw it in an article from BBC news. Sounded interesting.

[Killer19]

I used to use slashdot a lot.

[r12]

I stumbled on a site that only accepted bitcoin. had no idea what they were but now that I do I think its a great concept.

[bigb159]

Dam. I don't even remember what got me into bitcoin.

[Luno]

Because of the women?

No Slashdot 14 months ago: "Bitcoin rising from the dead" 1.79$/BTC

[Scrooge McDuck]

Well, I'm really into "security" news etc.
I've read articles about some hacks where vast amounts of Bitcoins have been stolen, until then I did not really know what Bitcoin is,
so I started to dig deeper and deeper...

And here I am.

[greyscale]

I saw a TV show on it on ABC, and it kind of piqued my interest.

[Gotta go fast!]

I've actually known about its existence for a year or so, but I only recently downloaded the client and started researching it.

[private]

I saw physical coins sold on ebay

[bitcoin02]

I made that pdf

[jsk666]

i found bitcoin about 2 month ago i have been doing servery and stuff just for fun to get bitcoins but now it time to gat some real bitcoins any one know some sites

[lebing]

I wrote a paper for my masters about complementary currencies

[goodbc]

Wikileaks donation page:

http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate#dbitcoin

[Scrat Acorns]

Slashdot, around 2 years ago.

I wish I rode the initial mining wave

[BootyCall]

Read about it in a magazine, though I don't recall which.  I work in cryptography, have a background in law, lean slightly libertarian and consider economics fascinating.  Perfect fit.

[lennox]

reddit.com for me

[mrgrey]

A forum I was trying to register for required a bitcoin payment.  Had heard about bitcoins prior to that, but never really looked into it.  There is a ton of info on this website, so I am glad I found it.

[PLN-to-BTC]

I stumbled on a site that only accepted bitcoin. had no idea what they were but now that I do I think its a great concept.

Same here.

[mtman]

I too ended up on a site that only accepted Bitcoin.

[Uncurlhalo]

reddit.com for me

Reddit link same as you.

[ninjaboon]

I saw some news on it around August 2012 and the rest was history.

[morde_glbse]

A slashdot article years ago...

[Agorastos]

i can not remember when i first read about it, got interested when i read that people from iran buy bitcoins to save their money

[Freja]

Searched for anonymous ways of paying online a couple of years ago but did nothing about it back then.

Remembered the name though.

Now I needed to pay for VIP membership of a usenet search index and they accept only Bitcoin, so I thought it was high time to get started with bitcoin.

[WalrusBaller]

i am a U.S. POKER PLAYER that dislikes Zynga, or any form of play money poker game. My love for the game, is renewed! If and when lawmakers in my fubar government, decide to regulate online poker. I will still be using BTC 

Why you ask?

 
1. The western union jerks dont get squat
2. The deposit/withdrawal takes minutes not weeks or months
 
The coins i have won are worth more than when i won them
    thats a win... win! (literally) 

also ,i have always hated banks. (except Tyra Banks)..

[watermoose99]

was doing a google search for an account and came across this site

[psybits]

A new friend casually mentioned it in a conversation - I went home and googled it and read the wikipedia article. It blew my mind and I feel like something has irrevocably shifted inside of me...

[Freja]

Read about it in a magazine, though I don't recall which.  I work in cryptography, have a background in law, lean slightly libertarian and consider economics fascinating.  Perfect fit.

"Work in cryptography" fascinating! What exactly do you do?

I remember back in the days of compulsory military service in my country, they used to test all the guys (not me, I'm a girl) to check what they were best suited to do. The absolutely smartest ones got drafted for a bit longer than normal, got a language course thrown in, and did something cryptology related that they weren't allowed to talk about. Exciting stuff and it sits good on their CVs to this day, I think, because everyone knows they scored top on IQ at 18.

[DaKrazie1]

I learned about it from some podcast as well quite some time ago but never got into it until recently.

[uranus]

I saw a TV show on it on ABC, and it kind of piqued my interest.

If that's The Good Wife, that was where I first saw it. Didn't believe it was real though until the other day when I read a BBC article saying there is now a real world money exchange for btcoin.

[Too Fresh]

I randomly stumbled upon it on google and watched some youtube videos about it.

[gabbergabe]

Funny thing, I was actually on my way to work 1 morning, stopped to get coffe at the local AMPM and as luck would have it there was a bitcoin on the ground.

Mom always said if i found a bitcoin on the ground it was good luck!

[cynicalsoul]

About over 1 year ago, I go to my friends house and him and my other friend are talking about getting rich off of bit mining, or that was at least the plan. I was intrigued and did some research, found it too late to get into bit mining, but kept the thoughts of bitcoin in the back of my mind until recently, and here I am, finding out what I can for investment purposes and perhaps to accept as payment.

[Grecoin]

I was doing a google search on GPU hardware for WPA cracking when the Popular Mining Cards for Bitcoin appeared, cant forget that day.

[Snipes777]

Getting into philosophy and anarchism. Introduced by Stefan Molyneux ar freedomainradio.com, but then Adam Kokesh from Adam vs the Man and his new podcast has led to me getting into it much more intensely.

[Largo]

I dont really remember where i first found out about bitcoin, but i know my reaction was like 'Thats too good to be true, that cant work'.
But after seeing more and more i noticed it obviously did work.
Now im a regular user with over 1000 transactions in my BTC client (no transaction under 0.5 BTC) and working on a few bitcoin related projects.

[wtfvanity]

I was actually researching the proof of work concept for preventing email spam called hash cash. And stumbled on bitcoin.

[gocoinz]

Saw it in the news about a year ago, it didn't interest me that much. Recently I found out more about the mechanics and how bitcoins can be mined by individuals. Ok this stuff is actually quite interesting 

[abs]

A friend of mine found out about it on hackernews about a year and a half ago and asked me if I thought it was a scam. He started mining; I started buying.

[PatrickOMFG]

I can't really remember that well. I think heard about Bitcoins by reading a post on some random website I used to go to years ago around when Bitcoins first came out.

[ThisIsFC]

Tor.

[goddog]

wired articles

[leominer]

I heard about bitcoins through an online mmorg game Dragon's Tale...Its  fun game...

[kript0x]

Felt bad for not going to school so started watching some videos regarding linux, coding, security and then stumbled upon BTC. This was like 3 years ago and I didn't imagine it would actually become this big.

[21after2]

Read an article about BitCoin on money.cnn.com. Guy who wrote it didn't know what he was talking about, but it did get me to look into it.

[chrahunt]

Slashdot here too, maybe a year and a half ago.

[BitcoinsAreFreedom]

Flashback forum lol!
Read about someone who planned a kidnapping and then request bitcoins from the police... 

[lepirate]

Flashback forum lol!
Read about someone who planned a kidnapping and then request bitcoins from the police... 

Ahahah!! I read that post to, hilarious!!

[arkmayl7]

someone introduce me to deep web
and open silkroad. thats starting i
know bitcoin

[mrvision]

I was reading about gold, silver and libertarian stuff when i found an article about silk road. The silk road concept didn't catch my attention but as soon as i read that the site operates with bitcoins i started researching. This was on July 2011. I noticed that the price was in a 'bubble' so i waited. I bought this year in may.

Now i'm trying to develope some projects bitcoin related.

[McMini]

Some one on a danish forum created a topic about this new coin and how to mine it.

It got my interest and i started mining my first coins, this was back when the BTC/USD was only ~$7

[william]

I first learned about BTC via Slashdot.

[SlickTheNick]

A year or so ago I saw something about it on reddit. Reading through the comments and whatnot got me interested, so I started looking into it further. Mind was blown.

[SAFEVoucher]

a friend.

[knight22]

After watching the vids in my signature I started to look for some alternatives and I found about bitcoin.

[Anon136]

the keiser report

[johnvolta]

go to know from google search