What did you know about Bitcoin before becoming a bitcoiner?

[dul48]

I learnt about btc when decided to invest in ICOs, my friend told me..It was a mistake, I had to buy just some btc.

[Doyenne]

I know about the blockchain tech but not many about crypto..

[figmentofmyass]

This is a question to people who at some point discovered Bitcoin, but only became Bitcoin enthusiasts later - what was your experience?

the american government shut down my online poker sites (full tilt and pokerstars) in 2011. after this happened, it became difficult for americans to deposit/withdraw from poker sites. there was some discussion on the 2+2 poker forums about bitcoin and its capabilities, and a bitcoin poker site called seals with clubs emerged. in 2012, i eventually bought some coins p2p on the forum and tried it out. unfortunately, player liquidity was awful and there weren't enough games to make any real money. so i forgot about bitcoin for a while.

the following april, i had a co-worker who asked me if i knew about bitcoin. i had no idea the market was bubbling at the time. when i saw the charts, i was immediately hooked and started trading. i lost a bunch of money at first, but over the next year i learned how to trade profitably and started becoming enamored with the technology. can't believe it's been almost 7 years!

[BitHodler]

I knew little to nothing about it other than what people promoted Bitcoin as, which was a new form of online currency for payments. I however didn't care much about that aspect with how fascinated I was by its price.

I started out as get rich quick noob waiting for price movements to make money. The reality however was that I ended up doing more buy high sell low than vice versa. It rook me a while to figure out what I did wrong.

Bull runs is what gets most people drawn to this space, while the bear markets afterwards clean up the space where we end up with more people who are here for the right reasons, which is to promote decentralized sound money.

[jake zyrus]

Actually at first, I dont know anything about bitcoin. The word 'bitcoin' only sounds familiar but don't really know what is it and can't give my insight about it since I've only heard of the word bitcoin.
But then, I discovered and learned a lot of things about bitcoin and now I'm typing this.

[UstadSoleh]

At 2015 I was told about Bitcoin information. But at that time I was not interested in Bitcoin and the system that is in the crypto.

After 2 years then precisely in 2017, I was attracted to Bitcoin. And I started learning Crypto trading and maybe I was in luck because many coins started to rise in price.

And I guess I got into crypto at the right time. But I regret not from my first entry in this industry.

[Viscore]

Before starting I didn't knew much. Worst thing that most things that I knew about Bitcoin was wrong. I wasn't very interested, so I knew only some wrong things and stereotypes that it's very difficult to use Bitcoin, everything can collapse at any moment and etc. And these stereotypes probably was main reason why I started everything later than I could. Back in 2015 I was looking for ways how to make some money online. And then I become interested in Bitcoin, I started reading about it and then I decided to give a try. This is how everything started

I have known bitcoin before in a very negative way. People i know are claiming that bitcoin is totally a scam and it will only make my finances even worser. So i ignore bitcoin that time believing that it was really a scam one. But when one of my friends told me that bitcoin can offer huge profits more than from what our salary rate can offer, so i decided to give it a try and take a risks. That's when i started to become a bitcoiner and have recognized its real worth and value.

[nankers]

I got to know bitcoin in 2016 through my friends but when I didn't explore further, it was only limited to know. In early 2017, another friend of mine talked about bitcoin to me again and talked a lot about bitcoin and he later donated the amount of bitcoin he had in the amount of 0.01 to me. But at that time I was confused and there were lots of questions about bitcoin. What is bitcoin, for what bitcoin was donated to me, where did my friends know about bitcoin and many other questions in my head. Finally I decided to start looking for information about this bitcoin which finally brought me to this forum. Maybe my turning point to become a bitcoiner is after I found this forum and started to understand about bitcoin to make me start collecting bitcoin until now

[Gi01]

I first heard the word Bitcoin in 2014 when one of my friends was telling to explain to me about a peer to peer payment system which is an improve version of the banking system. I didn't really understand what he was trying to tell me. It was latter in 2015 when I understood what he was trying to tell me and I started to research and read more about Bitcoin.

[libert19]

I was on Indian forum back in the day and there were some people who used to talk about it.

So I searched about it on Google and asked some online friends. First, impression was Bitcoin is some illegal thing, just like many newbies in crypto world still think.

If they dig deep enough they will realize the truth.

Then there was a stellar airdrop, which made me dig deeper into BTC and cryptocurrencies, then I started sports betting through directbet as it was easier than fiat.

i collected some BTC through faucets as well, collected it on blockchain.info wallet and later started using Coinomi wallet (still using it). Faucets were giving 5-10k satoshi per claim at that time.

When I started today's top coins were dirt cheap, BTC like $150, ltc $4, dash $2 lol

I didn't had money at that time and wasn't sure about crypto market either.

Looking back, it has been a fun ride!

[Coyster]

I do not think there is actually anyone who accepted the bitcoin upon hearing about it, and my own story or experience isn't any different, when my brother started being enthusiastic about the bitcoin in 2017, I was totally indifferent and disinterested in the network, I believed it was run by scammers and sooner than later it'll come to a standstill.

In 2018, after much convincing, I was forced to look up some things about the bitcoin, which I did. I hence found out its potentials and how different it was from all the regular ponzi scam I knew about.
Ever since then, I've earned bitcoin through a number of ways:Bounties, fiat and trading, I can tell you that the bitcoin network is something worth experiencing.

[sarah11234]

Before my journey as a bitcoiner began, I already knew bitcoin was a digital cyptocurrency with limited supply just 21million backed by mathematics and the founder Satoshi is still anonymous. The other informations like transaction are been confirmed by miners, and transactions are irreversible were information I received while been a bitcoiner.

Exactly my experience too.

[samputin]

Nothing much, you know. Actually, nothing at all. I first heard of bitcoin way back 2017. My friends were talking about it and I overheard them that it's one way of earning money. As a typical person who knew nothing about digital currency, I thought of it as a hoax. Like, "Nah, there's no such thing." Or if there is, then it probably is just a scam.

But few months after, one of my friends was able to buy new things like a phone, and clothes and told me that it was all thanks to bitcoin. That caught my attention and realized that it was not a scam after all. Then I got curious and gave it a shot. And now I'm here. It's been two years since I registered in this forum and I'm still looking forward to more years on staying here.

[yazher]

Back in 2016, I was searching on the internet on how to earn money online and I came to this site called the hash ocean, later on, I learned that it was a cloud mining site. a month before it closed I research about Bitcoin then from there I become a Bitcoin enthusiast whenever there is a good story about bitcoin I'm glad about it.

[Botnake]

You guys are lucky to know bitcoin early, me, I know bitcoin in 2016 because I discovered it's easy to gamble using bitcoin compared to depositing money in fiat gambling sites which is not instant and it's so costly. I was just so interested more with bitcoin when I know I have a chance to earn online through signature campaign, after that, I participated in ICO while I still continue gambling and in the past, ICO are really profitable but made a major profit in 2017.

Now, despite of the bad market condition I experience where most of my investments are dropping, I am still here because like in the past, I still believe that bitcoin will be able to rise in value and will again give me some good rewards.

[kennen1113]

Honestly for me before i start to know bitcoin is a scam and used in darknet to buy such as drugs,gunz,payment service,etc. In 2013 i remember my friend tell me about the price of bitcoin is $10,000 at the time he encourage me to faucet bitcoin that i ignored the opportunity on it.

I've also heard that bitcoin is a scam and much worse than bitcoin but I don't usually believe in everything I hear, I need to get involved in reality to confirm that, and starting from the early stages, understand bitcoin, know satoshi, then join free faucets, and up till now, i'm probably grown up and become a bitcoiner. It's been a long time, with a lot of luck, but the saddest thing was I didn't have the capital, otherwise I would have had a better life soon

[The3max]

Initially I didn't know that this currency could be traded, and how did I exchange BTC for fiat currencies. After a long time of research, I really understood part of Bitcoin, about this market.

[Plecet Bank]

When I entered crypto and made a trade, I didn't know much about Bitcoin. I am only interested because of a lot of information that investing in crypto is very profitable. At that time I did not buy Bitcoin directly, but I bought an Altcoin. But the Altcoin was experiencing very slow growth. And at the end of the year, 2017 turned out all altcoins can succeed. So I was also immediately interested in trading Bitcoin.

[beliomir]

As soon as I found out about Bitcoin, I started looking for ways to buy it, more precisely about buying altos, as I expected that they would grow stronger than Bitcoin.

[Slow death]

I listened to some people on a forum, they commented on bitcoin and at the time I didn't care, I remember that some of them kept posting their winnings on faucets and others kept asking the site administrator to add bitcoin as a payment option. after i lost a lot of money on some sites and egopay and liberty reserve closed and paypal started to campaign against many sites i started looking for other investment options and that's when i found bitcoin