How did you get into bitcoins?

[ChinaPumps]

Lets clear through the newbie time zone.  Tell about yourself, how did you get into bitcoins?

[ajax3592]

Two weeks ago read in a local newspaper about the guy who bought 5000 BTC for $22 in 2009 and got rich.

[Nick_Curly]

Two weeks ago reading in a local newspaper about the guy who bought 5000 BTC for $22 in 2009 and got rich.

and how many you bought coins?

[oser41eric]

I read artice how a guy buyed million dollar pizza and got interested. It was 10.000 BTC and at the time of the article USD/BTC was around 100 

[exstasie]

I've been going to many cyber fraud cyber fraud conferences and Bitcoins keep coming up as main point of discussion for many topics. Thought I'd invest in some to see how it all works and the hype around it!

[Cloudpost]

I found information about bitcoin on overclocking forum over a year ago.
I read about bitcoins for 6-8 months and tracked bitcoin price/news all the time. I didn't like gpu mining at all, but now I'd like to try new solutions

[TheNewAnon135246]

Learned about it in the news a few months ago. I wish I heard about it earlier

[CrypticBits]

About 3 years back, from a friend (who wasn't really interested himself though).
Bought several items for 20-30 BTC, when they were worth $5-15 each. You can imagine how much that sucks, seeing the price now :p

[7queue]

I was mowing the lawn a couple years ago listening to this:

"TOM MERRITT: This is Security Now!, with Steve Gibson, Episode 287, recorded February 9, 2011: BitCoin CryptoCurrency."

---> "the current currency trade of U.S. dollars for bitcoins is about 1:1. I think it's, like, 93 cents for a bitcoin"

Ya, should have bought some back then, doh!


Then started looking into it, seems like a beta run for switching the population over to a cashless society. Still needs work on the banking/financial side of things from what I can tell.

So I started digging in and learning about it, mostly a hobby for me since I like to tinker with hardware and am a developer.

8 )

[SirDrSpiderpig]

I found out about it from a couple security forums I read.  Being a techy geek it sounded like fun to build a machine to mine coins.  So got into it because of that.  Got a nice 14 Ghps machine so far.

[raspcoin]

When my friend decided to buy alternative goods with bitcoins, I recognized the appeal of the currency.

[NascentEngineer]

My introduction to bitcoins came through a friend in my freshman engineering course at college. He was sitting next to me in class and I noticed that he was running a computer program on his computer that was taking almost all his CPU. A few questions later, and I had learned a ton about bitcoin mining, currency, trading, and applicability. Now I am here making my first post as a newbie! Thanks buddy! And thanks to the original poster for putting up a forum post that I could easily respond to.  

[manoamano]

I searched it into google

[BarkinTree]

online poker. i got screwed by FTP and all the rinky-dink US-facing sites were super rinky-dink and couldnt get you your money for 2-3 months.... so i went with a rinky-dink btc poker site and never looked back....

[runlinux]

I first heard about it on a forum I frequent as a way to cover the cost of electricity for doing Folding@Home. That was in May '11. Never looked back.

[easynote]

Giveways, PTC, websites that give you btc hour a hour

[meta]

At the end of year 2012 I got in touch with bitcoin on a IT-congress. Since that congress I'm reading press-releases on the media with some interest.

[coinpr0n]

Hacker News posts back around 2010. Only downloaded the client. Kept in way in the back of mind until price rose above $200 first time and it started coming up in the news. Oh, I know that thing.

[ajax3592]

Two weeks ago reading in a local newspaper about the guy who bought 5000 BTC for $22 in 2009 and got rich.

and how many you bought coins?

I could not get a affordable price, waiting for it to drop below $300 to buy 5-10 BTC

[marcovaldo]

A friend told me about it at work first. And I read some papers on the newspapers.