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cablepair
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November 01, 2011, 06:39:14 PM |
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heard about it in april mined my first coins in april
never purchased any coins ever
buy now you fool!  dont need to buy any - I mine enough |
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Xenland
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November 01, 2011, 07:10:08 PM |
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I joined becuase I just lost my job and my computer ran all day. I remember Google doing this screensaver thing where they would use your CPU resources to compute things. I also remember that the Fold @ Home doing something similar and I said to my self... there has gotta be a service out there that pays you for your CPU resources and man was I right!  Edit: in case your wondering I googled something like "Get paid for spare cpu resources" and then I found a forum that was telling people about Bitcoin(a non-bitcoin related forum) |
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evoorhees
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November 01, 2011, 07:45:14 PM |
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Another interesting question: How long until you bought/mined your first coins?
Happened as fast as I could get my money transferred =) Maybe a week via Dwolla? I went from ignorant to curious to skeptical to highly skeptical to intrigued to utterly obsessed and convinced within about 2 hours from seeing a FB post mentioning it. |
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paraipan
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November 01, 2011, 07:46:12 PM |
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i heard of it at the start of 2009 when it was basically worthless.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
+1 same here heh, lots of wasted time with a disgraceful person... |
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Xenland
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November 01, 2011, 08:31:00 PM |
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i heard of it at the start of 2009 when it was basically worthless.
but didn't buy my first coins until i heard of it again in April this year.
oops.
+1 same here heh, lots of wasted time with a disgraceful person...  You too eh? |
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adamstgBit (OP)
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November 01, 2011, 08:46:56 PM |
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Another interesting question: How long until you bought/mined your first coins?
Happened as fast as I could get my money transferred =) Maybe a week via Dwolla? I went from ignorant to curious to skeptical to highly skeptical to intrigued to utterly obsessed and convinced within about 2 hours from seeing a FB post mentioning it. +1 yup it only take about 2 hours ... and your hooked for life |
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infofront
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November 01, 2011, 08:50:06 PM |
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First learned of bitcoin in June. I was mining less than an hour later.  |
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dinker
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November 01, 2011, 11:51:10 PM |
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I first got scammed by this japanese bitcoin prince back when it was $30.
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Help Me Help You Donations:
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adamstgBit (OP)
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November 11, 2011, 09:59:09 PM |
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Locking Poll, soon.
Vote now if you haven't yet
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Vandroiy
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November 11, 2011, 11:29:41 PM |
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Voted 8 (joined this forum in March), but I had "heard" of it earlier, just been to lazy to follow the link at the time. Meh, missed the chance of being an early adopter that way. |
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Littleshop
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November 12, 2011, 12:04:53 AM |
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The Slashdot dollar bitcoin parity article is what got me started. I was CPU mining right away but found nothing until I got my first GPU 2 weeks later.
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