What were your experiences with Bitcoin when you first started?

[dhka]

I started my newbie's way on this forum. It was easier for me than for you, because my friend who brought me to this forum helped me.

Lucky you. I learn everything about crypto by myself including this forum. It was a long way to learn all this but better slow but sure than instant but knowing nothing in reality

[MJK_Anfaenger]

I pretty much lost immediately upon buying, cause I got in at the end of December oh well, lesson learned and I got into crypto and doing translation bounties, which I found out I absolutely love, so that's a win in my book.

[A Feeder]

I would like to know what experiences did you had when you first started with Bitcoins. As for me, I had many that I would like to share with you.

When I began in the Bitcoin world, I was a complete rookie with no proper knowledge of how did mining worked or anything about cryptocurrencies. I just thought about Bitcoin as another payment processor like PayPal. But when I joined the BitcoinTalk community, I learned so many things along the way. In my process of learning in the first days, I decided to invest into cloud mining services. Since I didn't knew much about it, I invested a plenty amount of Bitcoins to start my journey into it. During that time, I had gotten into many different services. Those were GAW Miners, then Cointellect, cloudminr.io and finally Hashnest. After getting scammed many times by the services mentioned previously, (except for Hashnest) I have lost many Bitcoins. As a result, I decided to never invest into cloud mining and thus dedicate myself into learning more about the cryptocurrency and look for other ways to earn Bitcoins. It was then that I enrolled into the signature campaign that I am currently into and during all that time I began to earn Bitcoins as well as diversify my investments into different alt coins. Now I am dedicated to trading Bitcoins and other alt coins, as well as working for it (like the signature campaign and working as a freelancer) in order to earn coins and build up my portfolio along the way.

Anyways, what would be your experiences with this exciting cryptocurrency? 

When I started, my friends told me to join signature campaigns because that is the most efficient way to acquire money. Not knowing anything, I ask so many questions like how to change signature, how to post, what are the rules etc. Up until know my campaign is not yet finished becausw it extended. I also tried to read as many as I can when I was a newbie and watch videos about mining.

[Melon12]

My first time experience in bitcoin when I was started  is very hard I don't  now how to post, l don't  have any knowledge  about the crypto,and my first  account  is banned,but when I learn about bitcoin know it easy to me how to work  in bitcoin.

[boddy.dy]

The experience I cannot forget when I first started bitcoin is to be bullied. We all know that in the early years of bitcoin it was tag by others that it is a scam, fraud and even some that this is a pyramiding skim. I can still remember that moment that I were explaining to someone what is bitcoin then some other people who hear me said to the person I was talking that I just scamming that person. I was somehow embarrass on that people but I just told myself that someday that people will come back to me and ask me to teach them on how to get profit by the use of bitcoin.

[Cinemo]

I'm here for months and I feel like I`m still on the very beginning. Experience, unexplainable cause I never dreamed about some internet currency and about all this world of other currencies. I have problem to explain others what bitcoin is, movements, some economy revolution against bank regime, is it some secrete organization big plan, so much mysteries about all this, and people are making real cash and live from profit they made here. Who love internet and computers, who spend a lot of time on internet, love to play games online and visit social networks, he sure must to love all bitcoin idea.

[kimjin]

I was first aware of it in 2009. Forgot completely. Became dimly aware again in 2011. Did nothing. Got rolling properly in mid 2013. I feverishly read up on it for a couple of weeks. Looked up Gox, thought 'this is the NASDAQ of Bitcoin? Fuck that' and went to localbitcoins.

Almost all of the 'opportunities' and businesses looked like blatant scams to me and time proved it to be correct. I've learnt vast amounts of new stuff along the way. 

[woozikai]

My experiences have been profitable!

Bitcoin is changing everything about money and creating new players in the game.

This is the time for new players in the game to emerge victorious

[rapmon]

Most/all of us come into the Bitcoin game as rookies and some of us never change. It takes awhile to get your head around everything, took me a few months.

In the beginning I was lucky and had good experiences from mining and not so good experiences from learning to trade. It took a few lost Bitcoin to understand I never wanted to keep giving my coin away trading both Bitcoin and Alts.

I've learned a lot along the way and trading being the main one. It has been a great experience so far and heres to hoping the future is as bright as the past has been!

[pinoyden]

obviously almost all of us experience a verry hard time when dealing with bitcoins at the start becuase bitcoin were indeed hard to understand due to its complexity and other technical aspects. But eventually after we learn the basics of of it , we feel that it is verry rewarding because bitcoin can surely give you a free money whenever you have some of it.  right now , i can say that i have still many things to learn pertaining on bitcoin but i dont want to stressed out my brain to early.

[Klestar]

It was very difficult when I was started into bitcoin.  Because, no one is believing me about it and I don't have enough money to sustain my expenses, and everyday I rented in the internet shop. Usually, I borrowed money to my friend then pay it every week according to my payout in the campaign. I patiently do it, its  started with a small amount  and I hold on to what I'm believing in about into bitcoin. And now I think I am harvesting the fruit of my labor since last year.

[Ayoyo]

When I decided to get into bitcoin it was because my brother told me he had just been entering the bitcoin world. I had already heard of it, but didn't realize how fast it was growing.

I remember buying my first 0.1 bitcoin for about 47 euro back in the beginning of the Nov 2013 rally. I was constantly checking the charts seeing that 47 euro flutuating between 40 and 60 euro. I tried to day trade a bit, but obviously lost around 0.01 by FOMO after selling and buying back at a loss. After that I slowly started building my stack by buying more and getting into the altcoin scene where I made a nice amount from mining with 2 gpus.

Was an interesting ride, but nowadays I mainly buy some (fractions of) coins on a monthly basis and earn a bit on the side through the sig campaign to work on my total holdings.

[Tomosumi]

My first ever experience with BTCitcoin was mining using multiple GPU's back in late 2011. It was really fun then since most miners would customize their whole chassis and showcased it in social networks and was like a contest of who has the best mining setup then and (have to admit, it was addicting and at the same time fun). The only sad part was, one my GPU's gave up so far (less than a week of mining 24/7) so my ROI was gone but overall I managed to get it covered with proper management.

[jinchuriki]

My first experience with bitcoin was very bad, back in 2014 I wast start using bitcoin as  a faucet player, I claim many faucets for earn some bitcoins, but when a complete day I claim bitcoin and calculate my earning that was only less than 0.001BTC.. then I decided to leave bitcoin, but one of my friends make a faucet and gifted me, then I start using bitcoin again but as a faucet owner.

[dayvespa]

Oh well the good ol days were pretty terrible to be honest. I was massive confused, just going from place to place trying to understand how the whole thing worked. A lot of reading and confusion and a lot of getting nowhere, I just knew there was something special about this and that I should keep paying attention. After time I started learning why Bitcoin is insanely important and why anyone that wasn't holding at least 1 is simply crazy. I started putting a lot of time into it and now im proud of my small stack of BTC that I will hold long time.

[ydaime]

All I knew when I first started is that I should get in and that it was a great innovation.  At the time it was high 200's and I was a bit nervous since all I knew were two things:
-the mt. gox scandal
-and the amazing capabilities btc has to change the world financially at least

I decided that I want to support this concept of banking the unbanked and smooth easy financial transactions and hesitantly bought a few.

Of course after buying, the frenzy of research started and I learned so much more.  This forum was fantastic for beginner knowledge.

[bsan]

my first experience was good since i didn't find out about bitcoin on my own. a friend of mine introduced me to bitcoin and i have learned everything there is from him. but at first i started using faucets which was fun but boring at the same time because the payment was terrible. but in time i learned more about other ways of earning bitcoin and gave up faucets.

[saru99]

when I first started with bitcoin, I just clicked faucets, then I think it was really wasting time. so I asked my friend to give me some tips to get bitcoin faster. then he suggested me to go to this forum. I real a lot, and he also told me bitcoin a lot. so I got my first bitcoin by signature campaign

[Zunomi]

I read several months about Bitcoin before I decided to get a bit and try it out.
So I informend myself pretty well I think which wallet I would like to use and how and where to get some Bitcoin.
Therefore my first experience had been pretty good.

[mejalipat]

my first experience when it started in bitcoin may not be a fun experience because I started it wrong, I did not know anything at that time so I decided to buy bitcoin at a high price, sometime later the bitcoin price had fallen so low and I got panicked then sell it, of course I lose a lot and that is a mistake, should I hold it and not sell it because bitcoin price has recovered and rise very high