How did you get your first bitcoin?

[Giant redfox]

I was gifted it as a joke actually, absolutely did not know what to do with it, where to get and where to spend. Afterwards decided to look deeper into it, bought cool video card and so on. Now happy and like this!

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[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]

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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.