What Brought You To Bitcoin

[dommyet]

because i am a geek

[koolBand]

I'd like be a geek,

[CoinCpu]

Quick bulks? not sure

[jamiecon]

I'd be interested to hear about what peeked your interest in Bitcoin? Was it recent press coverage, a friend or family, or something else?

I started reading about Bitcoin after seeing a few posts on Hacker News. I guess that would have been about 2 - 3 years ago. What's interesting is, after I'd learnt about it I remembered seeing a Bitcoin sticker over the entrance to Oxford Circus tube in London months before. It's amazing where it got to, and so quickly.

[jdany]

I'm an AM talkshow host.  My co-host brought Bitcoin up in conversation.  (I think it was a few days after the crash.)

I didn't know much about it, but as I was closing out the show, I said I would throw a computer together and try it out - and the phone-lines lit up with callers interested in following the story.

The next day, I went to Best Buy and bought a 7850 and started mining.
It took me 20 days to get to my first bitcoin.  
A few upgrades later, and I had my next bitcoin in 10 days.
I blogged the steps I was taking - and my audience fell asleep with boredom.
I've since stopped even mentioning the word on the air.  The perception was get rich quick - and $10 worth of bitcoins a day wasn't impressing anyone.
Now, it's just my own little obsession.

Do you think the outcome with your audience would have been any different if there were it simpler and easier to mine Bitcoin? Either way cool story. Maybe you'll be able to utter the word once again when Bitcoin goes through its next cycle of media attention.

Edit: Misplaced comma.

I don't think it was the process that made people yawn.  I think people expected that after spending $1000 on equipment, the returns would be more.  When it was "only $10" they were kind of put off that I wasted their time with the prospect.  But honestly, I was just experimenting.  I wasn't an advocate for Bitcoin - I wasn't trying to sell anyone on it - but it impressed the hell out of me.

[lollipierre]

Found out about it on HackerNews a while ago, at the time MtGox was heavily DDOS'd...

[hitkill]

The Greek government-debt crisis is the main reason for it.

[Renth]

read an article about bitcoin on a random site

[amakata]

The fact that bitcoin is simply the future

[Theraty]

My younger brother told me about it.

[justcome]

the hope new alt coins to buy low and sell again high.

[Wiuff]

Well i just startet but i must say the money

[atwood.b95]

Reddit! Seems like a lot of people came from there too!

[GenTarkins]

I'd like be a geek

[ClumsyAssassin]

The same reason I like Computer Science and Economics.

The idea of a decentralised economy sounds great to me. Financial institutions need to have less power, imo.
I believe that Crypto-currencies like Bitcoin remove much of their influence, due to not requiring a 3rd-party, and regulations to work properly.

Truthfully, because Bitcoin has become a lot more popular, is why I'm here. If Litecoins had become more popular, I'd probably be more involved with them.

[nkocevar]

Google'd "How to make money online" about a year ago... On about the 8th Google page, there was an article on Bitcoin Mining... and boom... I was suddenly interested, but now my interest isn't just about making money, I would like to see good things happen to the Bitcoin!

[Galahad]

I read up on internet development and like anything based on protocols or other systems which we agree to do together but aren't controlled by governments / companies etc. And it seems to be taking off and could one day become the world's primary form of currency. It was hard to get into but hopefully it will be worth it.

[pcmc5]

Reddit and few other articles.

[ToLy]

I found out about the 'Tor secret services', and decided to check it out, and because everything there is sold via bitcoin, I decided to check it out.
Now I'm addicted.

[umair128]

I found it when searching for paypal alternatives.