Introduce yourself :)

[almonds99]

Hey there!
bought my first bitcoins at $16.
Wish I had bought more!!
I'm pretty excited about how world changing bitcoin can be.
I think this current media exposure wave is really exciting, but I think it will still be years before bitcoin is really mainstream.
I think many people have a hard time understanding bitcoin and they misunderstand the current high price.  I think of it like this, the exchange rate is almost totally irrelevant. Sure, it's exciting to the speculators, but every day there are new people coming to bitcoin, and they have no idea of the price history. They just know they need some bitcoin to do whatever it is they want to do, and they buy how much they need.  Who cares if a bitcoin is $100 or $1?  If I need it to send $1000 across a border, or to buy something, I'll just buy the appropriate amount.  It's like when you go to a foreign country on vacation, you just convert your dollars to the local currency regardless of the exchange rate. And, if more and more people are entering into bitcoin every day, as is obvious (even if SR is a major factor, what does it matter what the market is, as long as it is real) then the exchange rate will drift up.
Exciting times!

[mutsched]

Hello to All

[RichP23]

Hi All! Started mining yesterday and have been reading as much as I can about bitcoins. I think this site is great and has lots of informative posts.

[donal]

Hello all,

I've just bought some bitcoin yesterday at the "high price" of £52 a BTC. I looked into it months ago but never took the leap. I know the current price is considered high and ecomomists consider it a "bubble" but do not underestimate the implications this currency could have on global accounting framework, and the potential advantages to global businesses now operating in a global marketplace.

There are also advantages to be had by the general layman who will ultimately decide the fate of Bitcoin. The current resentment towards banks, along with the fact that mobile phone payments are becoming widely used, (and will be pushed by phone manufacturers), will only strengthen the currency.

When the general layman is on board with bitcoin, that's when you will see the currency reach a real high price!

[HighDefPissJugs]

Posting itt because apparently I need a few posts to make a topic elsewhere

[samitcon]

Hi. I am in Canada and I want to buy bitcoins using email money transfer

[Omen1855]

I have been lurking a long time here, now it's time to start to participate as well.
Greetings from Belgium.

[antonghost]

I've been following bitcoin for a couple of years. Wish i had the balls to take the plunge earlier though!

[jbertman]

Hey everyone,

Been a lurker for years now, thought it's time I join. Hope to be an active member from now on.

[VincentX]

I hate waiting. Fifth post. Hurrah. 

[gskellig]

I am new.
Been mining bitcoins on and off slowly since 2011. Now mining litecoins.
=D

[Tuschay]

Hi everyone!

I've been a lurker since late January, invested in early February, and started accepting BTC for my artwork in late March.

[zarl]

Hi

Im happy to join this forum, i spend alot of time reading here the last 3-4 month
Very nice info to find here, been very helpfull for me.

Im Danish but living in Balticum
I feel dam lucky to get in at 12$ wish i buy shitloads back then
But im happy for those btc i have, waiting to get verifyed at Mt gox.

Im still on a step learning curve about all this, hope later i have some accepeble inputs to write.
English writing is not my strongest side, but trying to get better at this

Good Luck to all here !  

[Roswell]

Working on burnsides litecoin mining pool. 

Have done some study on bitcoin and litecoin and have basic understanding of them.  Have downloaded both qt clients, they look identical except for embedded pickaxe icon in litecoin.  Don't care or need to think about the mining difference/encryption/exchanges or whatever yet.  I need help from burnside (cannot send private messages or post anywhere but here   or other moderator.  Cannot get pool mining to work getting errors for log/pw and have confirmed all this.  Really would be glad to give out a phone number to him or a mod and talk this through or use skype even. 

Also have questions on gpu mining, that seems to be the way to speed things up and do more work.  Since cpu hashes are 1300-1900 per second, my understanding is mining will most likely have no effect.  I have a fairly good video card, nvidia GeForce GTX 560Ti but no clue how to get that power tapped here.  Hoping to have Intel Core i7 960 cpu going tandem as well.   I am not a programmer and feel like some of this requires a greater understanding of my rig than I currently have. 

So that's it.  Looking forward to learning about this, dialing in gpu mining, would like to have a real life chat with someone about this, and looking forward to being part of a pool and seeing what can happen.

[gadexx]

welcome to all newbie including me 

[BTCuser85]

Hi everyone. I'm new here, but I've been watching bitcoins since they where about $10/coin. I wanted to buy a few back then but I couldn't figure out an easy way to do it so I just kept putting it off. Well I finally bought my first few coins a few days ago at around $70-$80 each, but I still think that's a pretty good price considering how fast it's been rising lately.

Also I believe Bitcoin is just such an amazing new idea/technology, and eventually I'd like to build some kind of ecommerce site or app based on it!

[shantee]

Hello everybody,

I discovered btc a couple of months ago i know this forum since about the same time, but i have never decided myself to post anything ..maybe that will change

[Mac65]

Hello All,
I've been watching bitcoins since the price was around $10.00 after the first crash. In fact, that's when I bought my first btc. Have a few more since then. (mums the word) Anyway, I'm primarily a computer  programmer by trade. I say primarily because I'm also president of a nationally accredited school. Programming is my first love which I still practice. I still support an accounting application that I have sold nationally.

I have 4 Jalapenos ordered from BFL which looks like might come in about June sometime. I don't know why I didn't get the next level up but was thinking I was getting equalivent horse power. (My math must have been off that day!) Anyway, this way, if one goes bad, I'll still have 3 more. (That is, if BFL delivers, which seems pretty iffy from what I've read here.). I know the difficulty will be going up and up but if the price keeps going up and up, it should equal out somewhat. I have seen estimates that they could go to a Million Dollars per bitcoin. I know that's pretty far fetched, but when they were .01 cents, who would have thought? $80.00 already!!!

[skang]

Hey there people. I have made some coins doing offers and all for a month or so now. Looking to make more.

[Mac65]

Post 5! Saw a previous post about buying btc at $10. I had the same problem. I had to join Dwalla, prove my identity, which I didn't like doing, then join MtGox.com who also wants proof of identity. I drew the line at sending a photo of my drivers license to an unknown to me, so I had to go through Dwalla which is at least a bank, then use bitInstant to send money and only trade in small quantities. I guess that's all I can afford anyway, but "Just how Safe is Mt. Gox?" There is way too much identity theft going on for me to want to send too much personal info anywhere!