Introduce yourself :)

[MrSam]

Hello world!

I'm relatively new to all of this, i'm a linux guru and programmer, so this is all very interesting to me

[libertyzeal]

 I'm a longtime mobile developer, and a student of Austrian economics and sound money.  I know a thing or two about how currencies work, and was an extreme bitcoin skeptic at first.  I studied it for a couple of days, and now I'm a true believer, bitcoin is real money.   There are a lot of gold bugs out there that yell bitcoin is a fraud and only gold is real money, but most of them don't understand why gold itself has value.  Gold, historically served as money because of the following properties, these properties are what gives gold it's "intrinsic value", a word used by many but understood by few.

1) You can't counterfeit it
2) It's easy to recognize
3) It's portable
4) It's easy to divide
5) it is not consumed industrially, so the supply is stable

bitcoin shares all of the above properties as well.. 

[btcgy]

Hi there!

Greetings from Spain. I'm a webdeveloper who recently discovered BitCoin and thought was an interesting "place to be".

In fact, firstly I wanted to buy some BTCs, but I don't feel confortable paying a minimum of 32 eur of "comission" in order to make a deposit, so I went to the store, bought a Radeon 5870, took an old PC, plugged it there, installed ubuntu, DiabloMiner, tweaked speed of GPU and ram and started to mine at 400 MH/s

Now I have almost 0.50 BTC!! LOL

I hope to contribute in one or other way with BitCoin ecosystem.

Best regards

[TPRJones]

Hello!  My name is James.  I'm just here because this forum is the only place to contact the Deepbit.net guy, and I can't get my confirmation email.  So I'm going to post in this thread to say hello, and then hopefully I'll be able to PM him and get help.

Sorry, but I already take part in too many forums to want to keep up with another one, so after this I'm gone.  I wouldn't have even posted this much except it seems for some reason to be a necessary step towards getting my coins out of Deepbit.net.

Anyway, bye!

[grimeygrim]

Gentlemen.

[matt_b]

Miner, speculator, and programmer.......pretty much like the rest of the gang!

[Stramash]

Hi folks, I am Stramash I find the whole idea of bitcoin, intriguing and I love fiddling with my box. I initially came here to get more information on bitcoin itself, mining and to check out genjix because I was going to use britcoin.co.uk

I have spent many hours on here no but only recently decided to sign up.

[huckelberry]

I am huckelberry. I mainly contribute to:

wiki.mises.org

Interests: Economics, accounting, computer science and philosophy

[bitcoinmarketeer]

Hello Fellow BiTCoineers  

New BitCoin User from Germany, though I have no Problems with English, since yesterday I've done all the basic setup of the Client + Pool Software Setup
still waiting on the pending Transactions on Mt.Gox to get started and give this a real Test.

I would like to have full access in the Forum here to learn more about Bitcoins and the Technology behind it in General.
Hope to be trading and interactiong with you lot  

[Stramash]

So do i have to wait for all the blocks to download?what is the current number of blocks?

Yes, its currently around 132,000.

[ketsa]

Hello all,

I am from somewhere in Switzerland and had first contact with bitcoin about a week ago.
Tried to mine some on my semi-old gaming rig but its really pointless (single 5770).

I have, however,  a feeling 99% of bitcoin users are either speculators or miners, i doubt this will get anywhere.
please tell me i'm wrong.

interests : comp sci. tech. and gardening :p

[okashira]

Hi all,

I came here to make some extra cash on mining with BTC. I think BTC is neat concept, but in the end, likely won't work. Todays events have shown just how worthless your $15 per BTC bitcoins can be, note the people picking up like 100,000 BTC for 0.01 dollars each.

[stunner2002]

Hey there,
i'm from germany and 22 years old.
a friend of mine and me are tryin to pick up some BitCoins the mining train lost.
we missed to jump on it, so we want to use our energieflatrate to just make a few BTCs:D
the community already helped me a lot, aspecially the newbie threads and guides!
Thx to all of u

[woundead]

Hello

Found out about bitcoins about a month ago.
Thought; "well I have to test it"

After selling my first bitcoins and saftly got the payment to my paypal-account I was stuck

Well, thank god for having bought a 5850 instead of a NVIDIA

[bitbonga]

Hello,

Newly registered though I've been lurking the forum since February.
Time to make some posts and get out of this newbie sandbox:)

Cheers!

[breaktableswithit]

Hello,

I am breaktableswithit.

My interest are, learning more about bitcoin, how to acquire them, and general tech things. I also like motorcycles.

[tnkflx]

Hello, I'm tnkflx and I'm interested in Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse obviously! ;-)

[Mateuz]

Hello all

I'm relatively new to Bitcoins and mining. I read up on them a while back and thought it was interesting but probably not going anywhere. Checking back, now I can see I was incorrect....

I'm a non-traditional age graduate student in math at a prestigious US university, and I have an interest in statistics and also computer science. I've got my client configured fine and a couple of my math buddies and are are talking about building a pool across our University LAN and looking into the mechanics of bitcoin for a little research project. Oh yeah, and free electricity

[bc]

Greetings. 1st posting.

I was initially turned off by BC a few months ago when I heard that there was planned inflation. That's when I stopped listening. Boy do I wish I had taken 30 more seconds to investigate.

Kudos to Satoshi. I'm incredibly impressed at how he put the pieces together.

Kudos to the developers for making it better.

Kudos to everyone on the forum who contributes their 2 cents in thoughtful ways.

I'm really crossing my fingers that BTC takes off. I'm personally invested, but regardless, I know that BTC can and will change the world for the better - and that's even more important.

Cheers,
bc

[Trance104]

www.trance104.com is my website. I love trading in the stock market and....... Bitcoins reminds me of the currency exchange. I mine bitcoins, but on a shitty little setup. Only getting about 70 Mhash/s. I may improve it depending on how far I want to take this.