How did you get into bitcoins?

[Eternity]

You have to wait long time for that

[Kako88]

Looking into online gambling and sports betting.... thus bitcoin.

[marcovaldo]

Looking into online gambling and sports betting.... thus bitcoin.

You have a lot of gambling sites with fiat

[SisyphusEsperanto]

Interest on Cypherpunk. Then comes Bitcoin. 

[Johanna]

I get into Bitcoins when the news was spreading high ROI on mining....

[zuppers]

I was just searching what to do with spare hardware laying around lol.

[Fireblade]

After hearing about the high bitcoin prices I did look futher in bitcoin. Sindsthen I orderd mine one miner. Now it is pure hobby.

[Mitchell]

I heard about it through a friend, decided to download the Bitcoin-Qt wallet, but downloading the BlockChain took me to long, so I removed everything. Worse decision ever.

I came back to BitCoin because of a post on FunnyJunk. It was about BitVegas giving away Bitcoins, so I downloaded Electrum, collected me some coins and I have been active ever since.

[meatcylinder]

Long story short, since i must have timed out after telling a long epic story of my start with Bitcoins, back in March 2011 my friend introduced bitcoins to me because of my constant ranting since 2008 of ending the Fed and the central banking system yada yada, pro Ron Paul and libertarian rants blah blah.  

So it took me all of 5 minutes to understand it and it seemed too good to be true. Went back and forth about mining and buying some @$2-20/btc   til June 2011 Mt Gox got hacked and scared us off.  

Fast forward to Oct 2nd 2013... Silk Road bust... bitcoin as payment... $1.3 billion usd of transactions... members anonymous... founders bitcoins unable to touch by FBI... btc worth $121/btc...  

Called everybody and their mothers mother, which i guess would be their grandmother... anyway, and told them to buy. I was called a crazy, nothing new to a pro Ron Paul/Libertarian end the FED crazy, so ended up winning a Casascius silver 10btc coin fully loaded on Oct 8th!   Also have a couple other Casascius bitcoins, a 2011 ver 2 1btc and a 2013 0.5 btc.

Bitcoin is like digital gold, digital cash, and a revolution all in one.  

[MarketTime]

I was in a forum looking for a good graphic card for gaming and people were talking about how good the GPU is for mining...

[Coelacanth]

I found it from Twitter. Think I'm still not late and within 1 week I start trading and invested in hosted mining. Now I have few BTC and daily income.   

[Raimis18]

About a year ago a friend told me. First bought this spring.

[irpirate]

I vaguely remember reading about it online a few months ago. The rest is history  

[ChinaPumps]

Thanks for all the replies guys!

[networthsigns]

I just wonder how it plunges high. Inspired me to get into

[cschoeny]

It's always fun investing in new technologies.  I also lean pretty heavy on the libertarian side, so Bitcoin was right down my alley.  I also had to pick them up in time for this college football season. 

[Sindelar1938]

I heard about btc from friends who are CS students , I am not

Took me a little while to get how big and disruptive btc is

[PumpkinCoin]

I was one of the original subscribers to Zerohedge back on Seeking Alpha in like 2006.  I have read most Zerohedge posts since then.  It was first mentioned on Zerohedge maybe two years ago.  Didn't get around to buying some until after the implosion this spring.

[1001bitcoins]

was on a danish forum in 2011, asking about bitcoin i looked into it, and me and my friend was super stoaked, we wanted to make a miner for about 7000kr, but we had np place to host it. parrents did not want it turned on 24/7. and said 7000Kr was to risky.