How and When Did You Discover Bitcoins?

[johnniewalker]

I think it'd be interesting to hear how/when everyone heard of bitcoins.

I did in fall of '11 from a Wired magazine article via "Stumbleupon". The best thing I ever stumbled on ; )

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[Mike Christ]

I got really interested in this show called Breaking the Set with Abby Martin.  From that, I found out about Max Keiser's show.  Max mentioned Bitcoin briefly, and I almost missed it; I rewound it and listened again, not sure what on earth Bitcoin was or how it would stir up the Banksters.  So I did some research and voila, managed to find my happy ass here

[Malawi]

Not sure if I read about it Wired, or if it was a little before that.

I did a half-baked attempt at mining, but it was not interesting enough to fiddle with the mining program. I remember DL'ing the wallet though. But not sure if I dl'ed the whole block chain.

Ironically enough, I might as well have been "bitten by the bug", as I did quite a bit of mining for distributed.net without any thoughs about getting paid.

Been doing some low-speed hashing now though, and will prob upgrade from my somewhat old Radeon 4800 to a dual setup with better cards. The radeon can go into my old machine that has a NVIDA card.

Would not mind making a mining rig in the basement either. Sounds fun, and there are always other cryptocoins when the difficulty becomes to high.