How did you get into Bitcoin?

[eternalgloom]

At the end of 2013, A friend of told me he made about $10K USD from mining bitcoin.   Like an idiot, I jumped in and bought a bunch of bitcoin miners and also a few bitcoins at the top of the market.  To date, I still have not recovered half from my investments.

What was your initial investment, if you do not mind sharing this info? It must ve been huge since you still have not been able to recover it after more then 2 years.

Sounds like he might have paid way too much for those miners if he bought them at the end of 2013, while his friend must've bought his before the bubble.
Bitcoin prices were over $1000 back then, miners would be sold for a premium if I remember correctly.

[Newcoins2020]

I started a few months ago with bitcoin.

My friend showed me a video and i downloaded the wallet. Then came on this forum and from there it went more and more bitcoin for me.

[OrangeII]

I am new to bitcoin as invited by a friend of mine, I only knew about this in July 2015, I was asked to join this forum to learn about bitcoin, so that's why I joined here

[davinchi]

I got introduced to bitcoin accidentally. It was about two years ago I happened to see an ad with bitcoin payment logo. I made a google search and found a lot of information. I just stated getting interested and now I find  myself deep in to it.

[newcripto]

I wanted to make a transfer of money and was looking some cost effective,fast and more flexible way to perform transaction then a friend of mine suggested me Bitcoin.I was with some doubts at first then I got in after understanding and knowing more about it.

[Rude Boy]

I got introduced to bitcoin accidentally. It was about two years ago I happened to see an ad with bitcoin payment logo. I made a google search and found a lot of information. I just stated getting interested and now I find  myself deep in to it.

Same here!
late of 2014, i saw the BTC logo "Bitcoin accepted" on a PTC website, which actually i used than (which is gone now). And then just started to search about bitcoin on google and now i'm here. Actually there's a small story behind i came to bitcointalk.org too

[btcdevil]

I was searching for online income that time , i saw a thread of how to earn doing small online works , from that link i came to know about Bitcoin. Then i searched more about Bitcoin, first i came to faucet and was earning little bit, then some more searching i done and came to know about this forum and then started to surf bitcointalk and got so many information about bitcoin and alt coins and then also came to know about signature campaign and started to earn high, after some months i will come and tell how much i earned.

[disclaimer201]

In spring 2011 I read about a way to "make money with your computer" in a PC magazine I used to buy now and then. I believed it was a joke at first, but having heard about Seti-at-Home many years ago when I read about Bitcoin using peer2peer technology (we all know what that was used for in the 2000s) it immediately caught my attention. On top of the word "peer2peer" the virtual currency/gold reminded me of World of Warcraft gold, or better Diablo2 virtual items. I knew that people sold unique virtual goods on ebay and I even bought such an item once for Diablo2. I knew virtual goods are a real thing and could be used to make actual (fiat) money. The virtual world is R E A L. I had the feeling many people would take a long time to realize this, but eventually it would become clear, at least to the new generations growing up digital. They don't have to touch something to take it seriously and buy apps on mobile phones all of the time.

I bought a passively cooled 5770 and started to mine, shortly followed by a 5870 and in no time I had my first mining rig going in June 2011 using plastic baskets as a nicely air cooled "container". Sadly, I lost 50 Bitcoins to the Bitcoinica debacle, generally sold most of my coins way too early (2012) and lost more on exchanges like vircurex and during the altcoin crash. On the other side, I survived the Tradehill closure, Bitmarket.eu "hack" and avoided other scams all around by simply not using their services. Never keep any amount of BTC at a third party exchange, always keep your private keys, run a full node or use an offline storage or a hardware wallet like Trezor.

[Supercrypt]

I got introduced to bitcoin accidentally. It was about two years ago I happened to see an ad with bitcoin payment logo. I made a google search and found a lot of information. I just stated getting interested and now I find  myself deep in to it.

This is the same case with me as well. I was searching for some information online and came across a faucet which has a bitcoin logo. Whiel searching about what is bitcoin, I got this forum and from then I am just addicted to this currency. I now hold cash in my bitcoin wallets only.

[azeminjo09]

I've discovered them in 2011 I guess, when I received some amount and spent them on some zynga rewards. Didn't know it was BTC till friend told me about them in 2014 and my memory was back

[bearex]

I got into it by reading on a forum and winning a reward there. It was my first BTC, and i exchanged some since.

[DeathAngel]

A friend was into bitcoin years ago, I wish I wasn't so dismissive, paranoid, ignorant whatever. Unfortunately I'm late to the party.

[bankingbtc]

my friend told me about it that i should invest some dollars into it

[BitMaxz]

Just read on a blog that has a convincing how to earn money with bitcoins thats why i search it in google and saw this forum...

[OROBTC]

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I first heard about Bitcoin in 2012, I even invited a "Guess Post" from a software engineer (someone I did not even know) to explain it at my blog.  But, I took no action re buying BTC.

It wasn't until 2013 when Zero Hedge put up a series of articles, that drew in BTC fans, that I actually acted.  And it was the help of those at ZH who got me started.

NONE of my "normal" friends nor family were or even now are into BTC.

[Yoxy]

I heard on the news about it.

[btvGainer]

I just don't remember exactly how I got interested in bitcoin I think I read some article about it online and eventually ended up here on this forum during my search on Google about bitcoin.I think everyone who love or uses bitcoin,comes here at least once in his life

[crazyivan]

It seems lots of people got in cause of direct recommendation from their friends. I guess, even in this age of technology, the direct, mouth to mouth, recommendation still gives the best results.

[hasiramasenju]

first heard i have about bitcoin is in year 2014 and i only can earn it around 0.005 per week and that's all is from faucet site and my first claim faucet is freebitco.in

[Kprawn]

first heard i have about bitcoin is in year 2014 and i only can earn it around 0.005 per week and that's all is from faucet site and my first claim faucet is freebitco.in

A friend of mine started with faucets too... Also Freebitco.in. He has some artistic skills and started offering his services for BTC... He now owns almost 100 bitcoins and paid

all of his debt. We did not know that both of us, was into bitcoin... and only recently found out, when we got together in a pub. We regularly attend meetups together now, and

we are much closer than before, due to bond we share with Crypto currencies.