What was your INITIAL motivation to buying Bitcoin

[italianMiner72]

i'm involved since 2013, when i heard it on television news.
was after 1200$ pump on november 2013...
Then I was passionate about bitcoin and altcoin markets

[Edrian]

Of course the initial motivation is that its price increases as time passes by. We are all after the investments and the benefit we can get in this cryptoccurency.

[mrcash02]

I was motivated because I have seen the Bitcoin potential, I followed its progress since 2015 and it never disappointed me and any other person. So, I chose to give it a try and see what happens... Now it's time to hold hoping for the price increasement to sell and make some profit in the future. Meanwhile, there are some good offers of investments which generate more profit than fiat investments (another motivation to buy Bitcoins).

[hosseinimr93]

Making huge profit.

When I knew bitcoin and got some information about the technology behind it, I bought some bitcoins. Because it was my belief that bitcoin will be the future money and all of people will need that for their life. It will cause bitcoin to increase in value very much due to high demand future and I will make huge profit.

[yrreg ger]

It is pretty obvious that because we want an income. For me my goal of buying bitcoin is to hold until the day come for the right time. It is all about profit, since the bitcoin price is not stable they know that it is easy to get a profit they only need is to wait if you think you have a profit.

But this way is not easy, you need to observed the market, sometimes the price is dumping, it is hard to manipulate the pumping and the dumping of the price. Yes for other it is easy to get a profit by waiting for the right time but others sell their bitcoin because they need for their financial problem. And in this case they can't decide properly and no choice but need to sell without profit.

[btvGainer]

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

When I first heard about bitcoin,I though it were something that could make me rich as I was reading lots of stories about how some people earned so much btc.I joined the forum to learn more but soon realised it was not that easy to make fortune out of btc.

[flippener]

I heard it was going to be 'the next big thing'. I had missed out on previous things (like internet marketing, Tesla shares, property boom) so I thought I'd best get in. Not early enough or hard enough to make real money though.

[Blitzboy]

My intial motivation was being rich with bitcoin. You know, most of the people here want to become rich in the fastest way and it leads them straigh into bitcoin and the cryptocurrency community. But, when I realized that bitcoin is better and it is not just about money, I started to learn more about it. Bitcoin is quite interesting and there are many things need to learn about it such as the blockchain technology

[European Central Bank]

more dollars. the longer i looked into it the more fascinating it became. i'm still not convinced it can be the utopia it wants to be but i'm prepared to wait and see.

[Sweetbtc]

Well seeing this thread made me remember my old time. I was searching on the Internet for online jobs and I did not believe that time that anyone can be paid online  Sad. I found few faucets sites which paid bitcoin and then I started to learn about bitcoin and bought a few when they were worth only 400$.

[moynul2050]

The initial motivation for buying bitcoin is because of the increased pricing that varies regularly as well the earning chances available and also i wanted the government's hands off my money besides i also  wanted nothing to do with banks 

[Kidmat]

For me the initial motivation in buying bitcoin is to earned money. When my friend introduce bitcoin to me and showed how much he earned that time Ive become interested. Since then, I wanted to earned too just like my friend and he also motivate me to buy bitcoin and invest too.

[cafucafucafu]

I like the idea of having freedom in my spending and since Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, it provides it to me. It is also quite anonymous and I don't like people who try to see what I am doing.

Bitcoin's volatility was also another factor that attracted me since I thought I could make some easy profit from buying low and selling high, but after sweating over Bitcoin prices, I just started to hold Bitcoin, and It has turned out pretty well today.

[ShadowBits]

my initial motivation to get into Bitcoin was as an investment,
One thing that impressed me about Bitcoin, and cryptos in general, is the low cost of entry. The traditional financial system is just not very friendly toward the small investor who has a little money to invest.
with bitcoin with just a few hundred dollars i can try many things, i can move from this one to another in a click

[warrior333]

My motivation was initially just to earn some extra money, but then I began to understand the importance of the fact that I got the opportunity to have an income not controlled by the government. It's my freedom and I love it.

[ubercool]

The initial motivation for me to buy Bitcoin was to have some money whenever I want to buy stuff online. Digital goods or other things. Paypal takes higher fees and on that the buyer protection program is sh*t. So I needed a currency which I can use it with less hassle, I know that there is nothing like buyer protection in Bitcoin but I felt it was somewhat better than other services.

[HAARP]

My intial motivation was being rich with bitcoin. You know, most of the people here want to become rich in the fastest way and it leads them straigh into bitcoin and the cryptocurrency community. But, when I realized that bitcoin is better and it is not just about money, I started to learn more about it. Bitcoin is quite interesting and there are many things need to learn about it such as the blockchain technology

Pure motivation for this is getting rich like you. I'm not interested in the specifications of bitcoin, but the earning money after my investment in it. I also want to be able to trade digital assets on internet, that's why it created a good motivation for me.

[Edrian]

My initial motivation in bitcoin is to earn more money than I ever had. But lately the most thing I wanted was to have my own money away from taxes and other things that the government is getting. It also became my motivation to learn and have other opportunity to invest in crypto.

[ethereumhunter]

my initial motivation to buying bitcoin is for making money because after i read many article and watch video in youtube about bitcoin, i found that bitcoin is an opportunity for me that i am looking for. from bitcoin, i learned how to trade, how to invest, how to save in wallet and else and the important thing is i can make money like other people.

[AbdTstpr]

At first for me, I just wanted nothing to do with the banks with respect to my international transactions which was becoming hectic in my country. Bitcoin came in as a saviour and since then, transaction wasn't only easy to do but I now make some cash as well.