What Brought You To Bitcoin

[cdogster]

I heard about Bitcoin via HackerNews

[ning]

Someone I learned a lot from.

[kodo]

An article if i remember right

[CryptoJunky]

Started studying U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. My political awakening followed. I found a money trail connecting most of the worst atrocities in history to the international banks. I started hating banks. Just when I thought I couldn't hate banks anymore, the great recession hit, and I found a way. There is no word in the English language to describe how hideously evil the international bankers are. As my research continued, my hatred grew. I started watching Max Keiser. Max introduced me to bitcoin in the Summer of 2011. My life has never been the same since.

I wish there was a follow button so I could follow you Chalidore. Enlightened one.

Do you twitter?

Why doesn't this forum have a follow function?

Thanks. Glad to know reading all those books and watching all those documentaries made me wise enough to impress somebody other than my wife.
This is my fifth post, so I will be leaving the newbie section now. I plan on posting mostly in custom hardware and economic speculation.
If you wish to support my lifelong quest of exposing bankers for the corrupt moth hair foo cars that they are, please send some BTC to:
14PLbwsDP4K8JkJ3V3GVTe8x8T6KsAo4bj

Congrats on your departure from the Newbie section.

Sounds like there are a lot of places talking about Bitcoin these days, sending more people here. Welcome all!

[Bakemono]

Believe it or not i don't remember.
And it was not so long ago.

I have read an article once but hadn't paid much attention.
I think it was the mining part that made to jump on this wagon.

[carlotech]

i have extra rig for bruteforce thats why i try bitcoin..

[Caser]

A tweet from Rick Falkvinge.

[SanJoes]

google some crypto things

[Neozonz]

Hmm...

Googling and internet lurking!

[dht7479]

From IT forums in my country, I know it late 

[Bitoy]

PayPal chargebacks.   I sold items worth $1 only but got 6 chargebacks in 1 day. So I googles if there is a payment system with no chargebacks.  First result is bitcoins.

[KatiHahn]

Good question.

My brother talk me about this! 

[ishocker]

Interesting question, indeed.

[bitbitcoins]

Interested in cryptography and on the economics theory behind bitcoins (fixed value of bitcoins in the system).

[monkeyballz]

It was a dokumentation on YouTube and the idea of 'earn the money while I sleep'

[marjan-]

Red about bitcoin on an Exchange for Linden dollars, about 15 months ago. Bought some at the time at around $4,= and forgot about it. Glad I did because I earned well because of it 

[tbenz9]

I used to be an avid Folding@Home guy.  I work for a company in the Supercomputing field and we had lots of servers sitting idle most of the time.  I got us pretty high in the Folding@Home arena and then realized I could be making money doing the same type of work.  It was a no brainer to switch from Folding@Home to Bitcoin.

I've since made several thousands of dollars and am still going strong.

[poof312]

A friend of mine told me about it back in 2010. I followed it and mined for a bit, but then the crash of 2011 happened and I lost interest. My friend and I were thinking about putting $50 into bitcoins just to see what would happen once it dropped down to $3, but we never followed through. We're kicking ourselves now, that's for damn sure.

[EasyQuest]

I have a friend who is bitcoin mining, on a 5850 back in August of 2012. I was Nvidia all the way and did not care for bitcoin mining at the time, but when he bought 2 5970 to mine and sold the 5850 to me and I did nothing with it for about 3 months but in January 2013 I decided to try it out. now I have about 8.6 GH/s mining in my house.

[robert5]

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?

It's the best currency