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October 14, 2013, 05:53:33 PM |
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Just curious on knowing how everyone got their first bitcoin! I heard about bitcoin from watching a documentary on Drugs then they mentioned something about SR and bitcoin. I looked up bitcoin and automatically became hooked on the idea. The first time I ever got a bitcoin was from a stranger on a youtube video. He sent me 2 btc when they were worth 6 or 7 dollars. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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tvbcof
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October 14, 2013, 06:13:10 PM |
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Just curious on knowing how everyone got their first bitcoin! I heard about bitcoin from watching a documentary on Drugs then they mentioned something about SR and bitcoin. I looked up bitcoin and automatically became hooked on the idea. The first time I ever got a bitcoin was from a stranger on a youtube video. He sent me 2 btc when they were worth 6 or 7 dollars. ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) IIRC, someone was giving away some fraction of a BTC for cell phone numbers. I gave him mine and he dutifully sent some BTC. I figured that I would not have the number forever as T-Mobile did not service the location I was planning to move to. Not long after that I bought a whole one on e-bay. I had just gotten bitcoind to compile and wanted something to play around with. The most advertised faucet (Gavin's IIRC) was dry since this would have been during/after the run-up to $30-ish in 2011.
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sig spam anywhere and self-moderated threads on the pol&soc board are for losers.
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vokain
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October 14, 2013, 06:31:52 PM |
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school tuition refund => chase => dwolla => Tibanne Co Ltd. => BTC ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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October 14, 2013, 06:50:30 PM |
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mining 3LTC then trading it in early 2012 when litecoin was fluctuating rapidly between 1c and 2c
dang i missed those days of rapid price movements, i turned 3LTC into 152LTC (about 0.18BTC) in 3 days then soon after the price of LTC went from 0.002 to 0.005 and i was feeling top of the world.. and had my first BTC
.. but now the price has stabilised with maybe a 1% movement if timed right per day.... dang i miss the volitility
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I DO NOT TRADE OR ACT AS ESCROW ON THIS FORUM EVER. Please do your own research & respect what is written here as both opinion & information gleaned from experience. many people replying with insults but no on-topic content substance, automatically are 'facepalmed' and yawned at
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illpoet
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October 14, 2013, 06:54:54 PM |
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roger ver gave me my first bitcoin, i was ordering 2 casacius bitcoins from him and at the time he had a special for 5 percent of the total order back in bitcoin. The offer was for his memoryonly but i didn't realize that and sent him a bitcoin address. He said lol i can't give you five percent back in bitcoins when you are buying bitcoins but here is one bitcoin so you can now have one. they were roughly 2.37 each at the time. Moral of the story, Roger Ver is kickass.
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Tym's Get Rich Slow scheme: plse send .00001 to btc: 1DKRaNUnMQkeby6Dk1d8e6fRczSrTEhd8p ltc: LV4Udu7x9aLs28MoMCzsvVGKJbSmrHESnt thank you.
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October 14, 2013, 06:55:35 PM |
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Got 5 BTC free from Gavins faucet. Then I sent them back later after I purchased some ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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October 14, 2013, 07:01:32 PM |
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Bought on exchange.
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October 14, 2013, 07:11:11 PM |
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Lost my money to a scammer here trying to buy my first BTC. I was more careful the second time and bought it from sublime5447 on May 2013.
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October 14, 2013, 07:19:14 PM |
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Heard about Bitcoin when the difficulty was still under 100,000. I mined 1 BTC/day with a single graphics card for a short period of time. Deepbit, guiminer... ah, the memories.
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Alty
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October 14, 2013, 07:40:13 PM |
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Heard about SR and the dark web; curiosity led me into downloading tor and having a look at what was there.
I saw that everything was priced in Btc, that got me doing some research and discovering more and more.
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dominicwin
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October 14, 2013, 07:41:06 PM |
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bought my first big order of bitcoin back in 2011
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tvbcof
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October 14, 2013, 07:51:02 PM |
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Heard about Bitcoin when the difficulty was still under 100,000. I mined 1 BTC/day with a single graphics card for a short period of time. Deepbit, guiminer... ah, the memories.
Ah yes. I started out by reading documentation which was only months old, but already completely obsolete (unbeknownst to me.) bitcoind had a CPU miner built in and I used it. I got kicked out of several mining pools for 'inefficiency' in short order before I fully comprehended what was going on. So, I guess technically I got my first (tiny fraction of a) bitcoin in this manner, but it was such a tiny fraction that I didn't even bother to try to transfer it. I was paranoid about the block chain size from early on in my research on Bitcoin. I've always tried to avoid piss-ant transactions on general principle. A hold-over from needing to pay attention to resources from my exposure to computers in the mid 80's I suppose.
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sig spam anywhere and self-moderated threads on the pol&soc board are for losers.
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Ecurb123
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October 14, 2013, 09:28:07 PM |
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someone actually gave me one.
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October 14, 2013, 09:43:19 PM |
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Mined on eligius and slush pools with a HD 6850 few weeks before the 2011 bubble burst.
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October 14, 2013, 09:45:42 PM |
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Bought on exchange.
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October 14, 2013, 09:48:56 PM |
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Bought from BTC-e. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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October 14, 2013, 09:55:58 PM |
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bought on britcoin before it turned into intersango, and subsequently died.
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Sword Smith
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October 14, 2013, 09:59:10 PM |
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I sent 1000 DKK (175 USD) to mtgox ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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Johnny Bitcoinseed
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October 14, 2013, 10:41:33 PM |
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Bitcoin Faucet
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October 14, 2013, 10:50:55 PM |
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I read about bitcoin in one spanish economic forum. I got interested because I heard about it in 2009.
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