How did you get your first bitcoin?

[alices]

I have never got >=1 BTC. Newbie restriction is preventing me from participating in bitcointalk.org.

[s3lphctr1]

Im currently in the process of GPU mining my first coin. Long way to go, but im getting there .1 coins soon enough

[Luno]

Im currently in the process of GPU mining my first coin. Long way to go, but im getting there .1 coins soon enough

Keep going,it all adds up!!

When I started mining 18 months ago, people told me that I've missed the boat. only mined 1.9 Bitcoin / day Surveys gave like 2.5 Bitcent.

In hind sight I feel very lucky now, and you might too, even if you have the feeling now that you are too late.

[Ghostofkobra]

Got my first by cpumining,, i guess it was a while ago.

[swiftcoin]

Just plain old Mt.Gox

[s3lphctr1]

Im currently in the process of GPU mining my first coin. Long way to go, but im getting there .1 coins soon enough

Keep going,it all adds up!!

When I started mining 18 months ago, people told me that I've missed the boat. only mined 1.9 Bitcoin / day Surveys gave like 2.5 Bitcent.

In hind sight I feel very lucky now, and you might too, even if you have the feeling now that you are too late.

Ya im working my way to it. I feel as if im to late to make much of a difference now, but even with that im still having fun learning and tuning my system to get even more out of it.

[tolis9090]

i bought my first bitcoins with a bank transfer from a site

[btcminer69r]

I bought my first 5BTC with a paypal transaction done w/ person I know in real life, who had a few to sell at the time below market rate. then she showed me Bitinstant & how to go pay cash at walmart & get them myself & not get ripped off by scammers.

[alex_fun]

I think I sold cellphone insurance for btc

[xxjs]

Re subject
I honestly can't remember. It was only 3 monts ago.

[pipboy]

Bought a few with Bitinstant.

[zomalok]

buy on virwox (( payover 30% from mtgox price

[brooksby]

I got my first bitcoins from a faucet.

[dazzle]

Well, i got it thru CoinAd.

I consider myself a merchant and a buyer at the same time.

[coqui33]

First from a faucet, then gradually increasing transactions with coinucopia, virvox, therock, coinbase, CBX, and one or two others. Tried small amounts ($10-$20) with each, chose the smoothest operations. Then tried those chosen with larger amounts ($100-$500) and chose smoothest of those. Have narrowed it down to CBX or mtGox (USD deposits via Dwolla).

[BetterBitcoinUp]

I bought mine with Coinbase.

[tondre]

Prospecting for free stuff on the Internet, though it takes work so in a sense not free.

[Lucka]

I got my first 0.1 via btctip

[S@toshiDoshi]

Bitfaucet! Read about bitcoins and how it worked and was directed towards bitfaucet for my first coins.

[prime14k]

got my first coin as successfully as a lure... they got me when I thought I found a trusted vendor.