How did you get your first bitcoin?

[VEscudero]

I get mine visiting the bitcoin faucet every day for several weeks in those times when the faucet gave you not so little amounts.

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[Bill_B]

My first fraction of a bitcoin came from one of the "free coins" sites - bitcoinfaucet or coinad or something.

My first whole bitcoin was purchased.

[Toby]

right now, I don't have 1 BTC, about 0,046 
but 7 more weeks (or more) waiting for my BFL single

[GCInc.]

I mined my first bitcoins.

Our site Gold Game Land gives out 0.10 BTC for all registered accounts.

[bitcoinraffle.co]

I payed way too much on eBay for my first coins.

[Bigrah]

mined on my old ATI Card.. (which i changed after the first block found to a newer one..)

[BankTransfer]

Unfortunately, I purchased it. Ever since then, I have been mining them, but I am fiesty for more!

[ReginaldBuxley]

Mined it in the slushpool off a $50 craigslist special video card.
The memory of it almost makes me hear dial-up modems.

[hamdi]

worked and got paid in btc

[finkleshnorts]

freaking virwox

[ZodiacDragon84]

I CPU mined on 4 AMD cpu's on bitcoinplus.com for months before I finally got my first

[momentumdeferred]

Got my first tiny amt of bitcoins from mining, first significant purchase from a trade on #bitcoin-otc

[logicus]

Won my first bitcoin playing online game - MMO and poker

[bat1]

Have not yet reached the marvelous amount of 1 BTC... still plafoning at 0.1 (...)

But I plan to post an artistic project soon in order to fix this and do something for the community

[bigbeninlondon]

I got mine off of eBay.  $6.50 or $7 per coin, but I didn't have to wait 30 days for my dwolla account to allow me to send money to MtGox.

[darkmule]

I won a few 50 bitmill freerolls on Seals With Clubs and then played cash games for a while.  Before then, I had nothing but what I first got from the Bitcoin Faucet and then dailybitcoins, while they still gave a whole bitmill.

[gbl08ma]

My first Bitcoin transaction was 0.001 BTC coming from the Bitcoin faucet hosted on appspot. After that, and for a long time, all I earned came from faucets and free offers. Last December, I found an advertising network that pays in Bitcoins and decided to put up ads on my (previously non-profit) websites, because even if my servers were sponsored I like to have a little money should I need to move a server paid by myself. After that, all the little money I earn came mainly from showing ads on my websites.

I only wish I had discovered this thing of Bitcoin earlier when the mining difficulty was still low... when I started using Bitcoin, getting profit mining with a nVidia graphics card, was already nearly impossible (I got more from faucets in one month than I'd get from mining in the same period of time).

[rythiryti]

Got it by sending money via psc to vendor. About year ago.

[eddyubachs]

i got mine from freedigitalmoney

great site with good payouts and plenty of choice

[purelithium]

I mined it, and got it deposited after about a month of figuring out my igfx wasn't powerful enough to mine effectively. Then I bought a 6870 and now I get one btc every 4 or 5 days in a pool!