betaknight
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May 26, 2013, 12:05:06 AM |
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long-time lurker, first-time poster. About a year ago or so ago, I saw more and more pictures of people holding up signs with btc addresses. *cough* r/girlsgonewild . After seeing how quickly people were picking it up, taking an interest and becoming evangelists, it just made a lot of sense to dive in and learn how to swim.
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saber
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May 26, 2013, 02:28:35 AM |
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Heh, 4chan's /g/ board introduced Bitcoin to me. I really didn't care for it when it was posted until the great crash a couple of months back or so (distant memory). Reddit also improved my knowledge about Bitcoin and the other alternatives, especially Litecoin.
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hortonelectric
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May 26, 2013, 02:31:54 AM |
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My grandmother introduced me to it. Anyone else got that one?
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waltgoodman11
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May 26, 2013, 02:36:41 AM |
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A lot of what brought me to Bitcoin was the lack of a coherent argument against their plausibility as a transactional currency. A lot of folks have written editorials arguing for the dim prospects for Bitcoin; none of which have been compelling. On the other hand, there is a powerful narrative for why Bitcoin will prosper.
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Zaih
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May 26, 2013, 02:39:44 AM |
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My Brother  He was obsessed at the time. I think he lost all his coins gambling though, so I've taken over his legacy hah  |
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trekin7
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May 26, 2013, 02:43:03 AM |
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The Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK.
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dwdoc
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May 26, 2013, 02:45:35 AM |
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I remember reading about it in wikipedia when it first came out but didn't become immersed until it hit the mainstream press a few months ago.
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chalupa_batman
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May 26, 2013, 02:56:07 AM |
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had to do an in depth project on digital cash, we made our own currency using a few algorithms (secret sharing, blind signatures, bit commitment, rsa, and random oracle) but because it was a small implementation we had it centalized. learned a lot about crypto, and bitcoin in the process. after i saw how useful it was, i had to jump on board
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FinShaggy
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May 26, 2013, 03:30:53 AM |
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I think Devcoin is going to start bringing a lot of people to Bitcoin  |
If everyone is thinking outside the box, there is a new box.
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EarthVPN
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May 26, 2013, 03:56:19 AM |
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We are planning to add Bitcoin payments to our VPN Services.
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SumEef260318
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May 26, 2013, 04:07:31 AM |
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Was browsing the web and noticed SR & BTC initially.. but then the money (I bought my first few BTCs at less than US$20 each)
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FinShaggy
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May 26, 2013, 04:08:34 AM |
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We are planning to add Bitcoin payments to our VPN Services.
What does that mean? |
If everyone is thinking outside the box, there is a new box.
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AndrewHenson
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May 26, 2013, 04:28:55 AM
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Hello,
I am sure I heard of this a few years ago, if only I had filled my bedroom with computers and GPU's back then.
Today I am a software developer who took a trading course and cashed in big on a demo trading account with bitcoins. After googling bitcoins and then trying to mine at home I quickly realised my hardware was next to useless.
So I have made an executive decision and invested around 4k in Butterfly labs hardware. I sincerely hope it gets delivered in time to at least make back my investment costs.
I decided to buy a few devices as the worry is the difficulty will increase too quickly rendering a single device useless.
I have been told my device will be in the data centre in a couple of months, I will report back when it becomes available.
thanks
Andrew
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EarthVPN
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May 26, 2013, 04:38:39 AM |
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We are planning to add Bitcoin payments to our VPN Services.
What does that mean? We are a VPN service provider located on http://www.earthvpn.com .Currently we accept only paypal for payments.We are planning to add liberty reserve and bitcoin.Liberty reserve is having big issues so we are investigating bitcoin for an additional payment option. |
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LABitMarket
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May 26, 2013, 04:49:21 AM |
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You really should add Bitcoin! Screw PayPal and their nasty attitude and monopolistic business practices, BTC is the way to go!
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monguru
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May 26, 2013, 06:17:02 AM |
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Money, curiosity, free electricity (for me only)
Around 2009 I've been reading about it.
However, mine has just started in April.
Bang my head against the wall ...
PS:
It would be a problem, you must have started!
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Zarthalyn
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May 26, 2013, 06:27:51 AM |
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Curiosity, and the fact that I can hav emy computers doing something productive while not in use.
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LABitMarket
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May 26, 2013, 06:42:18 AM |
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Big press stories during the spike up and latest crash... And then the possibility of small side income! $-)
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rockking
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May 26, 2013, 06:48:55 AM |
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I was watching tek syndicate on youtube and did some mining for him while watching his show. after that I started asking myself why am I doing this for someone else to benefit and started doing it for myself. although I have benefitted much from it. maybe cut a year off my video card's lifespan
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