Remember when Bitcoin was new and.....

[psomas2]

When BTC was new, some gave me 130 coins, instead of a pay check for a job I did that was worth roughly 600$. Every day I'd check on them and some days their value went down but most days it went up.
It was really exciting and I felt really lucky because I wasn't a bitcoiner, in fact I was not even happy to receive them in the first place. I was upset not to get 600$ and was mad at the guy who gave them to me lol.

then over time their value went up to roughly 40k, then they crashed and went down to 10K, I was devastated for a while but made the correct choice not to sell the coins and they went back up to almost 160K but I sold at 65k as it was going up. ( it went down 20 bucks in a day and I panicked it was happening again)

It was to this day my most life changing event and I'm thankful for finding it all the time.

I'm a personal trainer and even though no one offers to pay in BTC, I still let my clients know I accept it because of the one time it payed off

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[Kprawn]

I remember the first time some geek came up to me at a party all stoned out, telling me... " Bitcoin is going to be big, my man " ... I was in no mood to accept financial advice from a stoner, so I just

said, Yea and forgot all about it. A few months after that, I was surfing the Net to find the best prices on a new Nvidia GPU card for gaming and I landed on a YouTube link, where people were mining

Bitcoins with GPU's... that got me interested and I went down the rabbit hole. 

[iv4n]

When I started bitcoin price was 200 $, I remember freebitcoin faucet was more then 800 satoshis, price started to go up and rewards to go down. There was a lot of poker free roll tournaments, with very nice prizes.
Now price is 3 times more then year ago, even then was great time for buying bitcoins. I didn't have money for that, but I suggested that to everyone I know, people didn't take me for serious.

[jerelimZ]

When I started bitcoin price was 200 $, I remember freebitcoin faucet was more then 800 satoshis, price started to go up and rewards to go down. There was a lot of poker free roll tournaments, with very nice prizes.
Now price is 3 times more then year ago, even then was great time for buying bitcoins. I didn't have money for that, but I suggested that to everyone I know, people didn't take me for serious.

Price was good to buy at that time and even today price is good to buy if we keep in mind future price of bitcoin, price will go much higher in future so its good to buy some coins now.

[Nahl]

maybe i was new for bitcoin because i know bitcoin when the price approximately $600-$700 at 2014 and i was remember on that year there is one big exchange mintpal.com and there are plenty new altcoins want to listed on those exchange and give free altcoins as the vote reward to people who completing the task

[psomas2]

it takes a reason to bring the value up, it doesn't just grow like a plant lol. but I agree it will go higher

[streazight]

I mined 0.022 with my laptop. That is saying a BIG thing about mining, it should be evolving, it should be changing, I mean if the industry of mining rises to a point where one man invents something that mines 90% of the coins whats then?

Aside from the mining history, I once got 0.06 from a faucet, well a rotator, there was a site called landofbitcoin, I went through all faucets twice everyday and on my third or fourth day I had 0.06 bitcoins.
Of course they didn't worth anything but still nice memory.

[psomas2]

I mined 0.022 with my laptop. That is saying a BIG thing about mining, it should be evolving, it should be changing, I mean if the industry of mining rises to a point where one man invents something that mines 90% of the coins whats then?
Aside from the mining history, I once got 0.06 from a faucet, well a rotator, there was a site called landofbitcoin, I went through all faucets twice everyday and on my third or fourth day I had 0.06 bitcoins.
Of course they didn't worth anything but still nice memory.

Bro, I wish I could mine that with my laptop!

[psomas2]

Anyone know of any working Faucets that are still around? Id like to use them maybe BTC will go even higher one day 

[Junko]

I remember playing on the original Seals With Clubs poker site in the weekly Big BTC 60 btc Guaranteed tournaments when their would only be between 5-12 players.

Also there used to be a heads up poker site, forgot the name, that ran free roll heads up tourneys every 30 minutes with first prize being something like .200 or .500 btc or something incredibly insane.

Good times.

[angryswamp]

it takes a reason to bring the value up, it doesn't just grow like a plant lol. but I agree it will go higher

thats true, people are just holding their bitcoins and expect it to grow though they need to buy not only wait, right now im buying a lot of bitcoins

[psomas2]

it takes a reason to bring the value up, it doesn't just grow like a plant lol. but I agree it will go higher

thats true, people are just holding their bitcoins and expect it to grow though they need to buy not only wait, right now im buying a lot of bitcoins

buying certainly helps the economy, but i mean a reason that causes people to buy or even beyond that causes people to adopt (buy and sell regularly) that would drive the price up, not jus ta disiaster that causes peopel to abandon regukar money but an incentive to use BTC at the same time (which i believe there are many in place)

[Gyfts]

I remember a few surveys you could complete and get like .005 or something BTC. This was like less than a fraction of a penny if I remember correctly at the time. People were dishing out BTC for simple tasks. Anyone could make bank off of it if they hopped on early enough.

[eddie13]

Started trading again and made a bunch more BTC again and this time I bought a casascius coin with all of it so I won't just spend it on something..

with your track record you'd better be careful. some whale on here might track you down and keep you chained up in his basement doing trades for him.

I may entertain a proposition..

[ttargett]

when bitcoin was still new i unfortunately did not invest anything into it

[BitMaxz]

You are lucky that you already heard bitcoin in that time.. but i never not old adopter of bitcoin im newbie about bitcoin.. last 2 years...
If i know bitcoin in the past 2011 maybe i am still holding a large amount of bitcoin in my wallet and i have my own business in bitcoin here..

[plpbtc1526]

I don't know about bitcoin during its early years (2009 - 2014), but way back early 2015, my first time in bitcoin world, I can depend my earnings through faucets only. I mean, claiming on faucets were really worth it. I used to do it only during my spare time and as far as I remember, I'm earning a minimum of BTC0.001 per day. Unlike today, it is really hard to get that value even you spent so much of your time and effort imo because faucets already have low rewards.

Because the value right now is way more higher than before. Bitcoin in earlier days is not that popular and value is very low. Thats why is very hard to reach your minimum earning from faucet. 0.001 right now is almost a dollar right compare at the earlier days 0.001 i think its ranging for about $0.05 a day. That is not worth for a living

[shinratensei_]

it takes a reason to bring the value up, it doesn't just grow like a plant lol. but I agree it will go higher

thats true, people are just holding their bitcoins and expect it to grow though they need to buy not only wait, right now im buying a lot of bitcoins

Not for bitcoin in this time, from yesterday the price is not showed markings of the price will decrease or increase. in my minds altcoins is more best section become a place to investing your money in this time. but I sure you will not wanna to saving your coins for a long time ago.

[diodio5]

Anyone know of any working Faucets that are still around? Id like to use them maybe BTC will go even higher one day 

yeah when bitcoin is still new. there are many players faucets around the world. although quite small reward at the faucet.
but I see there are still many people who are on faucet at the time? I also played faucet and cloudmining at the time ?

[n691309]

I remember a few surveys you could complete and get like .005 or something BTC. This was like less than a fraction of a penny if I remember correctly at the time. People were dishing out BTC for simple tasks. Anyone could make bank off of it if they hopped on early enough.

The value in fiat comparing that time with the current time maybe is the same but the volume in bitcoin is different which makes the early adopters to earn pretty good because that they risked by investing in bitcoin, maybe after tens of years people will say remember the time when the price was $600, which is currently lol.