How did you discover bitcoin?

[crwth]

I was wondering how'd you discover or know about bitcoin? Did someone refer you? Did someone show you what you did? Through the news? Share something here. 

[7788bitcoin]

Here's my story:

I had a spare Android phone and wanted to do something to it. So I googled about things/projects/fun stuffs I can do with the phone. One of the results I got was about using Android phone to do "calculations" in return for "money"... That's how I learn about bitcoin/mining. Of course the article I read was already 1-2 year-old, and I wasn't able to do meaningful bitcoin mining with a phone then- the difficulty was only about  50-60 million...

[Juggy777]

I had discovered it initially, way back when I it started. People were paying me in it and I was like no I don't need it. I so regret, that I never took it. Now every one has discovered it due to net. It's popularity has increased a lot over time, and today it's surging like anything. Mostly there were forums back then and now net and growing demand for a alternative has developed the need for Bitcoin

[Rooster101]

Bitcoin was introduced to me by my online friend a couple of years ago when he invited me to join an online investment using that digital currency. But instead of joining him i've made a research first about the origin of bitcoin. Until now they still debating on the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the maker of bitcoin.

[lionheart78]

I have known bitcoin when i was browsing ptc sites.  I clicked some link that tells about bitcoin and then i was redirected to this site after several clicks of link.  I was looking for some extra income back then and stumble on altcoin giveaways.  I participated in several giveaways before I focused on learning about economics of bitcoin.

[OROBTC]

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From Zero Hedge (bwa ha).  Back about 2012/3 (right before BTC's big price run up)  

http://www.zerohedge.com/

One of their members gave me my first "bit nickel" (0.05 BTC) and helped walk me through various steps, even sold me some BTC by "mail order".

Of interest perhaps is that only ONE person I know has taken up BTC.  NO ONE else among my family or friends cares in the least.

[bhadz]

I just discovered bitcoins when my friend told me about it and I became curious about it as he told me that it is associated with deep web.
I am just curious with deep web but he said that btc is the currency used there so I need to study first what is btc and I did it discovered through him and things go round and exploration goes by googling.

[Kanapka]

in some internet forums people talked about it as some kind of joke some years ago, so I did my research and here I'm

now they are not quite laughing anymore

[MingLee]

I heard about it on the news sometime close to 2013, back when it had hit the ATH and everyone was talking about this crazy new currency to hit everything, and then I kind of forgot about it for a while before eventually finding myself here and doing things to help me out in my life. It's been a good run so far and I'm happy with it all.

[olubams]

My story goes thus, having heard about making money online several times and try as few only to discover everything is saturated with scammers, I then gave up that no real means of earning rather than wasting my resources on surfing. But after a while when I got to have access to unlimited internet, then I started surfing again until I read an article and follow through, did more findings, joined the forum and the rest they say is history...

[Xester]

I was wondering how'd you discover or know about bitcoin? Did someone refer you? Did someone show you what you did? Through the news? Share something here. 

I discover bitcoins way back 2014 when i was board and looking for an online job that can help me to earn money, i saw faucet first which is the Moonbit.coi.in i try to collect many satoshi by that time. i took a research about satoshi and how to have it. at first i just thought that it was only a game, a collection, then i saw a post of one of my facebook friends, i ask him about it, and he gladly share to me to process and the procedure of transferring my earnings on a wallet which i can use for encashment.

[Caladonian]

in some internet forums people talked about it as some kind of joke some years ago, so I did my research and here I'm

now they are not quite laughing anymore

same here mate, i discover btc  when i'm still active looking for some ways to earn online
i started to find good paying faucets from their i started to look deeper and invest my time
seek for more ways to earn btc.

[gandame]

I discover bitcoin year 2012 i read some post in facebook so that am search about bitcoin. When that time i discover that we can get bitcoin free in faucet there are plenty of faucet that time but it hard to earn bitcoin that why i stop claiming.

[Kakmakr]

Back in the days when CPU/GPU mining was still possible, I wanted to buy a new Gaming accelerator card. I Googled the different options and by accident stumble onto a video on Youtube of people using GPU's for Bitcoin mining and they were making money from their hardware.

I thought this was a crazy idea, that you can play games with the hardware and when you not playing games, it can be used to earn money. < effectively paying for the hardware > In those days, these cards were very expensive.

By the time I bought my hardware, GPU mining were not profitable anymore, but I got hooked on Bitcoin. ^smile^

[Pursuer]

I was wondering how'd you discover or know about bitcoin? Did someone refer you? Did someone show you what you did? Through the news? Share something here. 

like many others, I found out about bitcoin through a friend of mine. and I think it was the best way that I could have found out about bitcoin because I had a close person to me who answered all of the questions that I had back then to begin with using bitcoin. and then over time I learned more about bitcoin and invested my own money in it also.

[Strong052]

The first time I heard of Bitcoin was when a friend told me that he won a large sum of money. He told me that he won on a betting site. I asked the site to see if even win. At that site you'd get very little free money and if they reach a certain amount you could remove them. Since then, I was interested in Bitcoin site.

[davis196]

I was wondering how'd you discover or know about bitcoin? Did someone refer you? Did someone show you what you did? Through the news? Share something here. 

There are older threads asking the same question.

Read and post there.

I discovered bitcoin three years ago while watching the news.Back in 2013 there was the bitcoin boom (1200$

btc price) and bticoin appeared in the news.

[crwth]

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From Zero Hedge (bwa ha).  Back about 2012/3 (right before BTC's big price run up)  

http://www.zerohedge.com/

One of their members gave me my first "bit nickel" (0.05 BTC) and helped walk me through various steps, even sold me some BTC by "mail order".

Of interest perhaps is that only ONE person I know has taken up BTC.  NO ONE else among my family or friends cares in the least.

I think some family members don't really care what you say. They just listen in one ear then out on the other, the usual. Oh well. It's a good choice to take up BTC. I think it's the future.

[ethan_nx]

Mid-2013, before silk road collapsed, friends convinced me to look more closely at Bitcoin. There were already online exchanges when we could easily buy bitcoin. Moreover, there were at least 2 places where you could buy coffee with bitcoin - I immediately realized this IS a key to a new global money management.

What I thought was important at the time was:
- cheap international transfers (solves the PayPal problem, transfers to China, online payments)
- deflationary character - seems like a good investment too
- (relative) easy of use (sans confirmation times)
- local community was starting to build up, there were local Bitcoin meetings etc.
- last but not least, online gambling

This all created an exciting atmosphere of something new being born. More or less I still think this is happening and I am happy to live in these interesting times.

[groll]

I was wondering how'd you discover or know about bitcoin? Did someone refer you? Did someone show you what you did? Through the news? Share something here. 

I've got the knowledge about bitcoin through my office mate. He introduced bitcoin to me. At first, I don't understand what bitcoin is. How it is being traded and invested. But I took the initiative to have a google search about all the concepts in bitcoin. I searched and read articles about what bitcoin is, about blockchain, mining, trading, etc. And slowly, my mind has widen and I began to understand Crypto world. Now the postings in this forum adds some knowledge to me about the current trends in bitcoin.