how has your attitude to bitcoin changed the longer you've been into it?

[lienfaye]

When i first heard about bitcoin i didnt put much attention in it, i created web wallet because it is required by an investment program that i want to join in but when that investment ended, my friend told me that bitcoin is actually useful and its not just a digital currency. i became interested especially after i knew that you can earn money through it by investing. i didnt think of being rich quick, step by step i know that all my efforts will be worth it if you keep on achieving your goal.

[Wintersoldier]

When i first heard about bitcoin i didnt put much attention in it, i created web wallet because it is required by an investment program that i want to join in but when that investment ended, my friend told me that bitcoin is actually useful and its not just a digital currency. i became interested especially after i knew that you can earn money through it by investing. i didnt think of being rich quick, step by step i know that all my efforts will be worth it if you keep on achieving your goal.

It's actually difficult to try something new to our life specially when it involves our money that would be put at stake in order to try that thing. However, this wrong decisions shouldn't be regret by someone since choosing to avoid risk is the first choice of someone who want to protect their capital. Yet, people who aren't affraid to risk their money are those people who succeed because they tried something that could give them a lot of advantages.

[kidoseagle0312]

what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?

and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?

i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.

the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.

cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.

what about you?

I remembered before I get involved into bitcoin I hate reading, I am very much impatient in reading especially bitcointalk forum more on reading, so when I saw it, I said bitcoin was not in line to my profession. but I found out that there are someone getting profit into bitcoin, even I hate reading, I decide to know more about it, meaning its all money matter why I joined, then bitcoin teach me how so many tihngs so now I like reading in the forum.

[FiiNALiZE]

The more that I use Bitcoin, the more I learn that Bitcoin has plenty of things that could be useful in things beyond Bitcoin.
For instance; Economically, Bitcoin has different news posted within the forum from people from everywhere in the world. Learning new things about the current situations and the past things like the Cyprus Banking Situation made a bunch of people well informed on what's going on behind the scenes.

[maydna]

what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?

and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?

i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.

the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.

cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.

what about you?

my first time attitude is i am really curious about bitcoin, i search more in many websites with the info about bitcoin, first time i really don't know that bitcoin can make some dollars but after i learn more, i realize that bitcoin can help me to make some money too. first time i am confusing what will i am gonna do with my bitcoin. from collecting bitcoin, what i need to do to have a cash in my bank account, its like a story for me and i am glad that i am in bitcoin world now and i want to use bitcoin no matter how long it would be.

[peter0425]

The more I learn about bitcoin, the more I know that it has and will benefit me in the long run. Like I'm just earning bitcoin from signature campaign which is a lot, but I can use it  to trade to earn more. So it gives me an alternative that while I'm learning about it, I was able to earn as well. So the potential to profit is there, you just have to learn it the hard way. But that is more rewarding for me. So I think I will be using it for a long time.

[rajasumi3]

I first came to know about bitcoins from my friend , well at first i ignored it but at the last when i came to hear about it in tv series i became more interested in it .i called my friend and came to know about this forum .well it was then came to know i can earn some bucks from this .well reading about it , writing about it made me more and more knowledgable day by day .

[xvids]

Well I become more confident than I was before I earn some Bitcoin,
I don't know maybe because I found it looks cool to have some Bitcoin or maybe I just got a new bunch of friends because of Bitcoin.

[bettercrypto]

Honestly, when I first known about Bitcoin, I think of it as some kind of scheme, or gimick so I let time pass by and then I stumbled on it again and saw how many people are into it.  Then I came to a conclusion that this gimick will help me in my financial status.  I never thought of Bitcoin as get rich scheme but rather a new horizon of opportunities.  And I seen that it is true, but somehow to get into that opportunities I have to learn the needed knowledge to take advantage of it.  And still learning about these opportunities.

[mindrust]

It definitely did. I preferred to stay on FIAT side when i was making trades on the exchanges for a long time because i was afraid to lose money while holding bitcoins.

But in time, I saw that i was actually losing money while i was holding FIAT When i realized that, i told myself whatever the fuck happens, i won't cash out my bitcoins, never. (maybe till i buy a house or smth)

I broke that promise when the price was 1040 or smth, and it rose to 1270 after i did the trade. I was fucked again. I saw the 1270 bubble and posted in my graphs, but if i had bitcoins at that time, i probably wouldn't have done the trade because my emotions would have kicked in.

Long story short; fuck trading. Hold them till you need them.

[croato]

I am working hard for small wage so at first, for me Bitcoin was something that give me dream to get rich one day ( something like lottery, i am playing one lottery ticket weekly so i can dream about getting jackpot). But as time pass, i am actually starting to use Bitcoin more and more as real currency. It is stunning technology and i am sure it will be revolution of money (online and in real world.)

[thunderbitz2717]

what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?

and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?

i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.

the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.

cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.

what about you?

when I was started into bitcoin I don't know anything in online, it was a disaster to me how am I gonna do it or how am I gonna undertand it quickly, but as time pass by Bitcoin teach me how to become resourceful, and to be economize too. And now I know how to save for my future through saving bitcoin on my wallets.

[QuestionAuthority]

A revolutionary new payment system --> an entry level theft school for small time crooks --> a running joke for my friends and family.

[iamnotback]

Re: how has your attitude to bitcoin changed the longer you've been into it?

A revolutionary new payment system --> an entry level theft school for small time crooks --> a running joke for my friends and family.

Remember humans are incapable of detecting exponential growth until it is too late, e.g. the lily pond is only 12.5% covered with lilies on the 28th day, 50% on the 29th, and 100% on the 30th.

Crypto and blockchains are a fundamental shift of economics and society underway. Deflationary crypto-currency will correspond with a change from debt-based, industrial age to investment-based, knowledge age.

Don't be thrown off by that which you can't perceive objectively.

[jovs]

I started to use bitcoin to make some cash... I was looking for an Ad network for a blog and comes to a site using Bitcoin only... I started to use I didn't even know what it is exactly and how Bitcoin works LOL I just knew I have a wallet at Coinbase and I receive bitcoin daily into it. I started to use Bitcoin I was not even sure how I could convert to fiat. Then I took interest on Bitcoin and the ecosystem, opened several blog related to Bitcoin but also Altcoin and Blockchain, as I also like how the blockchain technology is beeing used outside Bitcoin. I have been giving a little gift in forums from time to time just as gift to share, not a lot, last time it was something like 2$, just for promoting bitcoin somehow. The value doesn't matter, the gesture matter, you know. Since al this time, now I like debate, blogging, learning ect about crypto, it allowed me to meet some good people as well.

I can relate on the things you said you've experienced. Because like you i am also used bitcoin before on earning money not knowing the specific thing about bitcoin. I also do gambling because i thought i can earn on that but lately when i become aware on bitcoin true essence that is the time that i become aware on bitcoin forum so i reed different topic and i gain knowledge and idea on bitcoin. That is the time i do also signature campaign to earn on posting and reading in forum so i gain knowledge while i am earning through posting so for me that is a big thing. And then now i also know that you should have proper handling of bitcoin through wallet. So for now i am holding all of my bitcoin on coin.ph waller where i can do more things about bitcoin. So i guess all of us improve the way on using bitcoin as it improved also.

[KuromaYoichi]

I started in bitcoin with the intention to make some additional money at first. Now my intention still the same, making some money as much as i can until either bitcoin dead or i have no more ways to make anymore money from bitcoin.

[ReLieD]

Like when i first started to earn bitcoin i was very happy.
I used to earn from signature Campaigns and at the beginning I used the post the maximum limit which the Campaign allowed.
Later on I got used to it and now i feel very lazy even to post the minimum amount.
Now when it comes to bitcoin completely earlier they used to get confirmed , the transactions used to get confirmed much sooner and the fees was less.
But now they have increased a lot and the conformation time has also increased , this makes me think a few times before using bitcoin

[andrew24p]

My attitude has very much been the same, but I definitely have seen the community shift gears in the last 2 or so years. The infighting has been a bit disheartening and the sense of us against the world has changed into us against us.

[LTU_btc]

When I joined bitcoin, I was searching how to earn some money online. I found faucets and wanted to earn few bucks from it. I didn't had expectations to become rich and I was sceptical about bitcoin. When I joined bitcoin, it price was down to $200 and $1000 and more looked impossible and unachievable. In first months bitcoin looked like a bubble for me.
But later I started to believe in bitcoins, discovered bitcointalk, found more ways to earn bitcoin.
Also, when I was total newbie, I was really sceptical about altcoins, even litecoin, dogecoin and others which was popular then. I was afraid to keept these coins, because I was thinking that even top altcoins can loose all their value in few hours. Now it's looking really funny

[vapourminer]

i got into it just to see if one could indeed make money of my GPUs (a HD4850). seemed too good to be true. and i did it mainly to prove a point to my wife that our computers were not just a money pit

of course it did make some money and i was able to exchange it for USD in my bank account  via mt gox and dwolla.  and after a couple months i grabbed more gpus (HD6870, HD5830s) and built a mining rig. this was around 2011. went with gpus, then fpgas and finally early asics.

made a decent amount, had some nice vacations and bought some toys. didnt really save a lot as i was unsure of its long term viability. 

at this point i gpu mine (alts, convert most to btc but i do save some alts) to be part of the Grand Experiment. still cash coins in here and there but now im more into saving coin long term.