How and when did you get into Crypto ?

[mistersehmuz]

Like most of you, friends and news affected my decision. Almost a year ago, for the sake of news, I understand the importance of cryptocurrencies. One of my best friends also advised me to invest in crypto projects. He explained every detail.

[TheCountOfMonteCristo]

Four years ago. It was easier to send bitcoin to a friend in china and fees were much less compared to paypal and other options.

Makes sense, your friend must be quite happy now with that payment ey  

I remember that I wrote several times how I did get in crypto world. I don't want to repeat, but I can't find these old posts. This is only thing I found:
Basically, I was looking to ways how to make some extra cash online. And I found that I can earn money through Bitcoin. But it's not only thing. I was amazed by idea of Bitcoin - decentralized currency not controlled by banks and governments. I really wanted to get some independence from banks, because I hate banking system. I wanted to have full control of my money and get some privacy.

Yeah understandable, with such a big forum threads like these will be posted multiple times. Which in itself I dont see as a problem, like we are seeing new people such a myself register everyday. Its a thread we can talk about our experience without thinking:'' Oh shit is this going to be seen as a contribution or just random spam?''. Conversations like the people here are having, are what makes you part of the community and feel a bit more at home. However it might not look that usefull to older members because they have seen this topic a million times, its still nice for us newbies .

Anyway onto your story! So why do you hate the banking system besides the privacy and no controll part ? Is it something that happened to you or just you read up on it and knew it was a crap system so you hated it? Its a funny thing to see that a lot of people got into bitcoin to make some extra cash, we are an ambitious bunch, we humans. Hope it made things happen for you. Further to that, do you have any other goals now ? Like aiming for your retirement fund or just become a gazillionaire ?

Good question. I got into Crypto by looking for a way to donate to charities around the world. It's still tough to do, but there are lists of crypto accepting charities online, and the infrastructure around it is growing every day.

Alright thats the first story I heared about getting into Crypto to donate to charities. Very cool! Do you have any specific reason ? And what kind of charities you donate too ? Its something I think is very cool and at a later stage in my ''Crypto Carreer'' when my website community is a bit bigger, I want to do something with charity. Like maybe every advertisement sale goes 25% to charity or every donation to the website goes 25% to charity. Or do a charity live stream. T

My best friend told me about this interesting investment. at first, i didn't believe in crypto and then i searched more about crypto and found that this is a profitable investment. You know what, my advice is that whenever you invest in anything, juts believe in your investment, don't let others affect to your opinion

100% spot on. Do your own research and stick by yourself. Good advice Louis. So you are still HODLing strong then ?

Like most of you, friends and news affected my decision. Almost a year ago, for the sake of news, I understand the importance of cryptocurrencies. One of my best friends also advised me to invest in crypto projects. He explained every detail.

All stories look the same but the feeling and thoughts behind it are yours and even if I see similar stories, I feel like they are different in a sense aswell. That was deep ey, sorry about that haha. You sir have a good friend. The fact that he went out and took the time to explain everything in detail is very nice of him. Definetly not all people are like that. So how are you holding up with this bear market ? Been a rough year for you and your investment I bet  

[LTU_btc]

Yeah understandable, with such a big forum threads like these will be posted multiple times. Which in itself I dont see as a problem, like we are seeing new people such a myself register everyday. Its a thread we can talk about our experience without thinking:'' Oh shit is this going to be seen as a contribution or just random spam?''. Conversations like the people here are having, are what makes you part of the community and feel a bit more at home. However it might not look that usefull to older members because they have seen this topic a million times, its still nice for us newbies .

Anyway onto your story! So why do you hate the banking system besides the privacy and no controll part ? Is it something that happened to you or just you read up on it and knew it was a crap system so you hated it? Its a funny thing to see that a lot of people got into bitcoin to make some extra cash, we are an ambitious bunch, we humans. Hope it made things happen for you. Further to that, do you have any other goals now ? Like aiming for your retirement fund or just become a gazillionaire ?

One of the main reasons why I hate banks that they are become more and more greedy year by year. For example, in past they were paying interest to customers who keep money in bank account. Now customers have to pay monthly maintenance fees just to be able to keep money in bank account. I don't think it's normal. And they are have too much control over our money. They can close account for whatever reasons they want, for example if you get money from Bitcoin exchange
Now I don't have any exact goals. I'm not looking into far future too much - offcourse, it would be nice to earn enough money for retirement, but becoming crypto millionsire or billionaire seems to be too much ambitious. I'm thinking about about buying a house with my earnings from crypto. But I need few years to earn enough money, because real estate is expensive. Offcourse, rise of cryptos like we saw last year would help me

[encester]

Cool, is your friend still mining and earning ? Yeah im more of a HODLer myself aswell, also dont really have the time to trade so yeah. Definetly man with Bakkt coming in december this is the best time to get back in. You got a game plan or just reading up on it for now ?

Yeap, he's still mining and earning. I think he has a private mining farm or something. Not much of a game plan at the moment. Just reading up and Googling up just to see how I could get back in the game. So, you're just HODLing at the moment?

[Uritron]

Previously I was with forex trading and one day one of my client told me about that and he told me we are planning to develop crypto forum so are you able to contribute for us? After that I told him yes and by this way I'm onto this...

[Ridaa]

A friend of mine told me how he earned so much from this and all. I asked him to teach me as he teaches so many people about this. And here I am. Still learning.

[TheCountOfMonteCristo]

One of the main reasons why I hate banks that they are become more and more greedy year by year. For example, in past they were paying interest to customers who keep money in bank account. Now customers have to pay monthly maintenance fees just to be able to keep money in bank account. I don't think it's normal. And they are have too much control over our money. They can close account for whatever reasons they want, for example if you get money from Bitcoin exchange
Now I don't have any exact goals. I'm not looking into far future too much - offcourse, it would be nice to earn enough money for retirement, but becoming crypto millionsire or billionaire seems to be too much ambitious. I'm thinking about about buying a house with my earnings from crypto. But I need few years to earn enough money, because real estate is expensive. Offcourse, rise of cryptos like we saw last year would help me

Yeah exactly, completely agree with the things you are saying about banking. Buying a house with Crypto seems like a reasonable enough goal! Definetly not the ''when lambo'' dream but a bit more realistic. No one knows what the future holds for us. A good bull run will help all of us  . However the technology is definetly here to stay so whatever might come, if you believe in that, im convinced good things are ahead.

Yeap, he's still mining and earning. I think he has a private mining farm or something. Not much of a game plan at the moment. Just reading up and Googling up just to see how I could get back in the game. So, you're just HODLing at the moment?

Nice, good for him! You could use the new directory site Crypthena to get back in touch. Im using that site aswell as some paid signal services, however im not doing much with those because i dont have that much time to be actively trading all day. For now its just HODLing yes.

Previously I was with forex trading and one day one of my client told me about that and he told me we are planning to develop crypto forum so are you able to contribute for us? After that I told him yes and by this way I'm onto this...

Cool, so what do you like better ? Forex or Crypto ? Furthermore out of curiosity, did the forum thing work out ?

A friend of mine told me how he earned so much from this and all. I asked him to teach me as he teaches so many people about this. And here I am. Still learning.

How are things looking for you ? Are you earning in this bearmarket ? You have a nice friend there, should keep that one around .

[fourpiece]

It happened 2 years when I accidentally searching on how to make money online and bitcoin is the top that I have search. Thats the time when my bitcoin life started.

[Gembul0705]

I was hear about bitcoin when bitcoin made ath December 2017 because many news about it. And then i search at internet about it and asked my friend who joined early then me. March i was joined to crypto world learn about bitcoin and joined bitcointalk forum. From that i interested with trading at cryptocurrency until now and i can get small profit from this.

[tarball]

I literally have no idea. I have a hunch that it was a suggested youtube video, because all I remember afterwards was trying to find videos with/of Jimmy Song (this was in June).

[TheCountOfMonteCristo]

I get into crypto since early of January 2018, i learned and know about crypto things from news and post in Social Media, especially Facebook & Twitter.
Crypto is kinda famous and trending in my country, especially in this year.

Cool, which country is this ? I know in the Netherlands it took a while before it got more accepted. Must have been a rough year for you too with the market going this low. How are you holding up ?

It happened 2 years when I accidentally searching on how to make money online and bitcoin is the top that I have search. Thats the time when my bitcoin life started.

Haha did you actually earn money ? How is bitcoin life treating you now ?

I was hear about bitcoin when bitcoin made ath December 2017 because many news about it. And then i search at internet about it and asked my friend who joined early then me. March i was joined to crypto world learn about bitcoin and joined bitcointalk forum. From that i interested with trading at cryptocurrency until now and i can get small profit from this.

Thats cool, are you still making profit ? And are you like day trading then ?

I literally have no idea. I have a hunch that it was a suggested youtube video, because all I remember afterwards was trying to find videos with/of Jimmy Song (this was in June).

Lol nice one, you still following him ? he seems like a nice guy, watched some vids of his while working on my crypto directory. Definetely one of the more likeable youtubers. For example I dont like suppo that much as I feel like he shills too much. Are you into any other youtubers aswell ?

[Kakmakr]

I was looking for a new gaming GPU, when I saw something about Bitcoin mining and people getting a good income from using their GPU to mine virtual coins. I thought it was a scam, but I did some more information and I saw that it was not a scam.

I bought a GPU for gaming, but I never mined any coins with it, because the gaming took too much of my time. I later saw Bitcoin was more popular, so I bought some before the big boom to $1000 and I never looked back. 

If I only knew what I know now, I would have mined those coins. 

[TheCountOfMonteCristo]

I was looking for a new gaming GPU, when I saw something about Bitcoin mining and people getting a good income from using their GPU to mine virtual coins. I thought it was a scam, but I did some more information and I saw that it was not a scam.

I bought a GPU for gaming, but I never mined any coins with it, because the gaming took too much of my time. I later saw Bitcoin was more popular, so I bought some before the big boom to $1000 and I never looked back. 

If I only knew what I know now, I would have mined those coins. 

Lol thats awesome. You were so early too, gaming does add value to your life ey  . What kind of games are you playing ? Also are you still holding BTC ? Or did you sell at the top ?

[steve57]

from beginning i knew only about bitcoin  and i started working in bitcoin company and from there i got interest in crypto

[bittraffic]

from beginning i knew only about bitcoin  and i started working in bitcoin company and from there i got interest in crypto

Yes. I also knew about bitcoin from a forum too, I didn't actually put more attention to bitcoin until its price reached $1000. I returned back to the days of which the price were still $2 and got myself stunned thinking I could have got millions if I just saw the possibilities of it. I'm probably one of the huge guys with thousands of BTC if I just believe to the guys who knew the future.So I started to invest to  BTC while its $200 after it. Didn't buy much but yes I worked as early as 2014 to buy myself some BTC.

[Gershonxer]

I came to know cryptocurrencies abou the year 2015. I was browsing through a nigerian blog www.nairaland.com and I saw a thread titled earn bitcoin though a faucet. So i chatted the creator of the thread an we hooked up on whatsapp where he just gave me the basics of creating a coinbase wallet and earning bitcoin through a faucet where you roll every hour to earn little satoshi.
I was persistant on the site for 3months where i earned about $4 which i was very happy. I started making more research on cryptocurrencies, how was it created, why was it created and its usage. One of the mistakes i made that time was not buying Ethereum when it was $13

[LukaC]

2014 baby!  My buddy introduced me to it.  Bought my first three Bitcoins drunk hahha

[pixie85]

I got interested when I read about the crash and a long term bear market that followed. I started to watch Bitcoin, because people were saying that it's in such a long term decline that it's not going to achieve anything. When it woke up and reversed in 2016 my first thought was to try it out, buy some while it's cheap. It was a great decision. Been a holder ever since.

[Harlod Benjamin]

A few months ago, I met my old friend and he told me about this opportunity, initially I did not believe it but later I realized this was the opportunity for me to change my life.

[Ashabi]

Scribbling down informations of how I go Into the cryptocurrency sphere wouldn't be contributing anything whatsoever ever to the forum,neither will it be of assistance to anyone or be any bit inspirational,this is not some reality channel..

Please come up with something helpful and something worth commenting on
As for this,its spammy and I wouldn't wanna be involved in that.  

I disagree whole heartly. This is the beginners & help thread, it therefore is not only helpfull but entertaining to see stories about how people got into Cryptocurrency. I still cant believe some of the stories I have read about people in third world countries getting their hands on Cryptocurrency. Thats what Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency is all about. Your comment however isnt helpfull or contributing anything. If you are going to be negative, just dont  post .

i can't agree less. The poster is even talking of gathering experience from experts.