What was your INITIAL motivation to buying Bitcoin

[CryptosapienZA]

I would like to find out what initially attracted community members to bitcoin.

[so98nn]

I would like to find out what initially attracted community members to bitcoin.

Because I like the idea of money being decentralized as well at same time shows characteristic of asset thus gaining value overtime.
That's it.

[mk4]

At first the thing that attracted me to bitcoin is that I could send funds without account registrations and stuff, and also because in the past I had no paypal and credit card. With that reason itself I already got hooked. And when I knew about it being decentralized, I was just purely amazed.

[Bitcoin_Delivery]

My initial motivation was to buy bitcoin back then because I was a gamers. Heard there was easy voucher payment and practically made me buy btc from my friend and try it. It's very fast and practical

[Calydon]

I wanted to be part of this magical world

[Ayiranorea]

The initial motivation for buying bitcoin is because of the increased pricing that varies regularly as well the earning chances available. Based on these factors I too became a part of the community. Later on started to explore more about bitcoin as well about the good features it has got. Hope by the falling years the price increases enormous and make majority of the users to be rich.

[warrior333]

I am by nature a rebel. I didn't buy bitcoins. I earned it. I'm interested in the idea of a free economy. It's too early to say that bitcoin is fully consistent with those requirements which I show to him, but better to be in the centre of the action than watching from the sidelines.

[FasTroy]

My initial motivation to buy bitcoin is the increase of bitcoin price over the years, I consider it like a most valuable thing when we talk about financial markets. I'd like to buy a lot of bitcoins and keep it in my wallet until bitcoin will increase a lot and suprise me, Furthermore, I want to self control my money, I don't like to hand it to govermenet or any other hand. So i will vote for "I wanted the government's hands off my money".

[BrewMaster]

i don't know which one to choose
obviously the profit that buying bitcoin and sometimes trading it gives me is a big motivation.
but i also like the freedom and privacy that using bitcoin can give me. the fact that i can easily go on and buy anything and pay for anything i want (if they accept BTC of course) without needing to register, fill in forms and giving them my identity or credit card,...

[zarados]

I would like to find out what initially attracted community members to bitcoin.

I want to reap the benefits from the land that is still little to know. It's like you found a diamond mine that other people do not yet know where it is, take as much as possible before people know that there are lots of diamonds in it. And when they just found it, we already have it with a very large amount.

[JasonXG]

I wanted to buy things online easily and without a bank or credit card or PayPal account they wanted all this info that I just never had since I don't own a credit card because debt is bad so I stay away from credit.

[iram3130]

Needed a high value return for my investment and liked very much the idea of having a currency which can be transferred with very low fees and faster than the fiat transfers.
Did know that the value will definitely reach sky one day so invested most of my savings.

[nejibens]

Well for me the initial reason which motivate me to buy bitcoins is making money because it is having very good potential for the long run, since the price is expected to rise highly in the future. But thats not the unique reason, because Bitcoin as decentralized, anonymous crypto currency is attractive.

[CryptosapienZA]

Interesting responses. I must say, some of the reasons like gaming never even crossed my mind.

[Quietman]

I would like to find out what initially attracted community members to bitcoin.

It was my way of earning. Since I still dont have work and cant work yet, I have to find something legitimate when it comes to earning money. So I found out about bitcoin and it really helped me to earn not just for mysel but for my family as well.

[amacar2]

I would like to find out what initially attracted community members to bitcoin.

- Anonymous transaction
- Safe investment opportunity
- Easy to use
- Decentralized so no downtime or government can't shut it down
- You will have full control over your wealth with bitcoin
- Many more

There are different things that have attracted myself towards bitcoin and I am one of the happy investor of bitcoin.

[Farfenkugel]

A friend of me was making a lot of money from investing in to a bitcoin program... when he showed proof i was instantly sold. Ofcourse i wasnt so lucky and lost about 2 btc before i figured out this btc world. I am still confinced that bitcoin and alt coins are the best oppurtunitys to make some money

[CryptonomyCapital]

I was convinced that bitcoin is the future of finance.

[redhorse]

Fascinated by the technologoy and by the idea of owning money without relying on a bank.

[izza123]

Buying drugs..