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Question: What's the *real* reason you ever got into Bitcoins?
I can use this to anonymously mailorder drugs? Gimme sum!
My bitcoins make me feel so well off while wasting my welfare checks on mtgox.
You felt the need for a future movie line similar to "Hand over your wallet.dat! And be quick about it!"
Envisioning people killing each other over Satoshis 20 years from now you've never felt so ridiculously rich with 1.0 of ANYTHING in your life
I totally forgot about that mining tool running in the background until I found out that the 10k BTC it had accumulated were now worth a couple grand USD.
I still don't know what bitcoins are and how the hell they work!

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June 19, 2011, 05:09:21 AM
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The architecture is very enlightenment, so I want to keep track of its development
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June 19, 2011, 05:24:56 AM
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I'm in it for the comics


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June 19, 2011, 06:38:46 AM
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Idle curiosity
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June 19, 2011, 09:12:19 AM
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Because printing your own money is fun.

+1  Grin

And... it's interesting to see how bitcoins are evolving in comparison with established currencies.  Smiley
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June 19, 2011, 01:42:11 PM
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We need a better name for the smallest-unit-of-bitcoin. "Satoshis" doesn't cut it.

What name would you give to the smallest unit of bitcoin (0.00000001)? sat. What name would you give to 100 sats? bit. 1 bit = 1 uBTC. 1,000,000 bits = 1 BTC. It's bits
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June 19, 2011, 03:01:07 PM
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I'm in it for the comics



Great one! Smiley
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June 19, 2011, 03:36:14 PM
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Might as well ease the time a little while waiting to be released from the newbie section Smiley

Feel free to post more reasons below.


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Being on a revolutionary movement Smiley
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June 19, 2011, 03:47:54 PM
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It's fun and a very cyberpunk idea that could actually work.

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June 19, 2011, 04:17:13 PM
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make some extra cash with the hw i already have. maybe do a little low buying high selling
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July 09, 2011, 06:07:46 AM
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I do it for the ladies  Grin
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July 09, 2011, 09:00:24 AM
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Finally the hardware is no longer in idle mode.
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July 09, 2011, 11:24:15 AM
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Because i like colourfull rainbows. Wink
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July 09, 2011, 11:31:53 AM
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Curiosity. That's about it..
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July 09, 2011, 12:19:11 PM
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because ive lost faith in our govt to make good decisions ~_-,
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July 09, 2011, 12:57:34 PM
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July 09, 2011, 02:45:29 PM
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Because printing your own money is fun.

Oh, yeah, it is indeed. Best. Reason. Ever.

And because everyone in the internet is doing that.
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July 09, 2011, 03:00:17 PM
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My "real reason" wasn't an option in the poll, but I voted the drugs thing. The article on Wired about Silk Road introduced me to the idea of it, then I looked it up in more detail myself. I liked the idea of a virtual currency that you can access anywhere and is given instantly to the other person, and I REALLY liked that there is no governing body for it.

But my real reason? Mining.

I have a powerful-ish PC, so if I keep it going for a month or so, I get about £20. Free cash, baby. Cheesy
I hope you don't have to pay the electricity bill.

Like my post(s)? 12TSXLa5Tu6ag4PNYCwKKSiZsaSCpAjzpu Smiley
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I just can't wait for fall/winter. My furnace never generated money for me before. I'll keep mining until my furnace is more profitable.
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July 09, 2011, 04:36:03 PM
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"You felt the need for a future movie line similar to "Hand over your wallet.dat! And be quick about it!""
That was funny  Cheesy

In all seriousness though. I'm not the type of person who says no to money. So I  carefully lurked this topic on many various websites and concluded that it was trustworthy enough for me to join in.
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July 09, 2011, 05:26:44 PM
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Got a gaming rig sitting around, might as well see what all the fuzz is about.
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July 09, 2011, 06:30:48 PM
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Because I am a paranoic who is always planning for a life on the run from the law, underworld or shadowy agents of a global conspiracy. Bitcoins struck me as a good way to transfer assets untraceably to my new identies.
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