What did you know about Bitcoin before becoming a bitcoiner?

[audaciousbeing]

The only thing I know about bitcoin at the time was the symbol. I have seen the symbol several times on sites especially where payment through some e-payments options are being listed and I didn't even care. At the time, the common ones were PayPal, Liberty Reserve, Skrill or so and some other payments. I just moved on not until sometimes in 2016 before I got to do some deep reading to have a basic understanding and since then, I can say its a gradual process to becoming a bitcoiner.

[antisocial77]

I met wirh bitcoin as a way of 'easy money' at 2nd of january 2018 when bitcoin has started to fall down from 20k.then i have learned its not an easy money lol.but i started to read and watch everything about crypto and bitcoin.

[lumierre]

i learned about bitcoin back in 2012- early 2013 and what i heard was that there is this thing called bitcoin which you can generate on your PC and sell it for a good profit. my friend was mining bitcoin and was earning money. so i never bothered with it back then!

then again in 2014 i heard about it again but this time i heard there is this thing called bitcoin that you could use to make payments online without any restrictions or middleman,... so i was hooked. and that's when i entered bitcoin.

I heard about Bitcoin by chance. It was simply something like ads in google (yes, it was, and exactly in Google!), where it is offered to try some "strange" mining of some strange digital currency. It seemed to be something very easy (it was available on the computer that time). Although it did not bring much profit, I started learning more about BTC and finally, I was involved in the crypto world.

[BabyBoss]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

I just know about bitcoin before l enter bitcoin is bitcoin gives income and that is all l need. Later on l found out not just income but giving profits that can multiply if bitcoin is getting higher. That time im really excited to have income because l met bitcoin at the price of $22k..So l start at the best rate of salary.

[Artemis3]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

Hmm my story is kinda similar to yours. I didn't really paid attention to it, but i guess i first learned about it the first time it got posted on /. (which was quite early, 2009 i think). But, i happened to be on Freenode a lot for small talk and the occasional Linux helping. One of my hobbies has always been #anime, and guess who was the channel founder? Certain someone who now is on the core team...

Anyway for various reasons i wasn't able to obtain bitcoins easily and i lost interest. But later people would joke some much about dogecoin that, yes, you should remember me joining that channel and since they were giving them away all the time, i could familiarize my self with all the basic concepts:

Wallets (both lite and full node), sending money to others, transfer fees, irreversibility, etc.

Since those "joke" coins were free, any mistakes wouldn't hurt as much. But then i found myself with a bunch of them and i think i wanted to buy something, almost nobody takes doge but exchanges do, and those were converted into bitcoin and then i found myself already knowing how to do things...

Possibly some people enjoyed bitcoin faucets in the very early days and could experiment carelessly.

So what could be done? Perhaps easier access to testnet, so people could familiarize themselves. I don't think any of the wallets expose a simple ui control to switch to testnet (instead of mainnet) and get "free coins". But then you would need some site of sorts to play with them, perhaps some game or anything that would work with testnet instead.

Testnet is supposed to be for developers but end users could benefit from it, i think. Else you could still go to an altcoin, but even dogecoin stopped being given as widely as it used to, back in 2013. Turns out Doge is mostly just Litecoin which is one of the closest to actual Bitcoin. But blocks occur every 2.5m, and mining production is unlimited. Of course its unprofitable to mine, and has already exhausted all its halvings years ago.

I never got my hands into an L3 to mine it for lulz, yeah, scrypt just like Litecoin.
Oh, i also learned about Exchanges disappearing overnight, and cloud mining scams... Invaluable experience, from Moolah and Garza

[Wonder_woman]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

Before l enter bitcoin all l know is bitcoin can have salary. Because my sister just encourage me to go in bitcoin world.  l try it to have income because lm desperate to have income that time because I'm just separated to my husband so lm desperate to have income just to feed my kids. But lm so lucky because l experience a big payments that time because bitcoin is $20k each.

[rodel caling]

I start to know bitcoin and understand what is bitcoin as new investment and a new form of money  came from the new technology, my friend introduce to what is digital virtual crypto currency.
Year 2017 January my friend explain me and convince sot reas and learn all about bitcoin as source of income but I can't ignore, but I am very thankful to him because he didn't stop convincing me to learn all about bitcoin and crypto and I start learning and reasing about bitcoin in the middle of year 2017 and start reasing and leaening herein forum, and I really bless because I part of the 2017 bullrun to experience the bullrun history of bitcoin.

[Lolox]

Attracted to Bitcoiner at the end of 2016. It took me a long time to get involved in Bitcoin trading. I tried mining, but it was very difficult because it needed expensive equipment. From there I tried to buy an Altcoin, but then the developments were quite slow. In the end, I bought Bitcoin, and I use it for daily trading.

However, I did not expect that the end of 2017 that all the coins succeeded. Bitcoin gives a profit, and until now I continue to trade in Bitcoin.

[ghermghuda]

Personally I first saw Bitcoin in  movie that i watched. I was however confused about how they got Fiat outta the Bitcoin. I didn't like surfing the Internet then so I never bothered to check until one dy a friend properly introduced me to BTC.

[seoincorporation]

Before becoming a bitcoiner i only know bitcoin was digital money, i used to think it was just like PayPal and of course i was wrong, it's far away from paypal, i was right in the idea about digital money but when i understand it is a decentralized project i decide to fully understand what is this all about. and at the end, i fall in love with the idea behind bitcoin, the beauty behind its logic got me.

[LogitechMouse]

I only learned Bitcoin when my companion said to me that I need to register in this forum to earn some money and learn more about crypto. The rest is self study from that time.

I tried to do some research into how to earn Bitcoins and I stumbled into faucets. I put my earnings in faucets in cloud mining called "eobot" and since I don't know about it as a non profitable mining, I invested my earnings on faucet on it until I went into bounty hunting. While doing bounty hunting, I've been reading and reading here but I don't know the complex things about Bitcoin until now . I know only the basics of it and that is enough I think.

[fullhdpixel]

Lol, when I got introduced to bitcoin, that time coincided with when I just got being scammed heavily by these so call Ponzi scheme call just being paid, I invested heavily in it with the hope that they would pay me the percentage they used in luring me then, and when my friend I reduced bitcoin to me, he came from the angle of investment and doubling of money in future, and never explained the real system of bitcoin to me, which I tool shabbily and dusted it off my hear, until the hype actually began.

The hype actually began before the 2017, it was then I knew something was special about the bitcoin, which I took my time to read about it, and then understood the reason why it was created and what the future holds for it, at that point was when I decided to  be a bitcoiner.

[sehoon]

It was first introduced to be by my uncle but he wasn't a bitcoiner before. And he told me that bitcoin is something that is used in the dark web or a currency in the dark web. So initially, I thought it was as currency made by the people there. Year 2017, is when I started joining bounties and started reading things about bitcoin.

[Ucy]

 I first heard about Bitcoin on one of my favorite radio stations before 2013 or 2014. I must have read about it too on few websites but never took it seriously because I didn't see the need for it then.
I first used Bitcoin before 2017 to buy something on the Internet but I wasn't still interested then... I just happened to buy stuff with bitcoin from a seller who only accept Bitcoin.
I eventually started researching about Bitcoin in late 2016. Most of those researches led me to this forum

[carriebee]

I learned bitcoin way back late year of 2015 at first I was hesitant to know more about bitcoin because I might lose of money. But, when a friend introduces me a lot about bitcoin that he really getting earn from it I become interested to learn. Until that I also earning from btc so those were time my friends taught me that I become a bitcoiner.

[coin-investor]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

2012 is the year where bitcoin is making a presence, I also heard and read it back in 2012, but I did not take it seriously because in the first place I don't know how it works and this is something new to my ears and understanding.

It was only that I read and watch it full time on Youtube that I understand how it works and it's potential in the market, but no regret since I adopt it 2015 and it's still early to adopt it, I'm happy to where I am now, I am now a part of a great community.

[Blackdeath]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

Before, the only thing I know about bitcoin is that it is intangible meaning it cannot be touch because its only in the digital world and can only be access using internet. After reading and staying in this forum, my knowledge are increasing but of course, I'm still learning.

[Wexnident]

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

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

I started with one of my friends saying about bitcoin and how one of his friends used the computer at our school to farm them. This was the time when bitcoin was still fairly unknown and still didn't have much monetary value. I tried dabbing into it for a bit but wasn't that interested then. When my friend updated me that bitcoin was rising and I should try it out again, I became more involved and that's what happened. It was I think around end of 2015 or the start of 2016.
Probably people don't consider it is cause they don't know much about how bitcoin works as a payment/investment option. Well, they're hugely missing out on the big things that way though.

[Eugenar]

The first time I saw bitcoin is when I am browsing the web and trying download torrents from videos and also softwares that I might use in every lives. I know it is now ethically correct to download such data for free, then I saw donations in a currency called bitcoin with a fascinating address linked to it. I was curious enough to know and figure out what that is, and that is my first encounter to bitcoin. Right now, I am continuously learning and increasing my knowledge about quantum computers and its effects to bitcoin in the future.

[Ashong Salonga]

Year 2015 when my classmate introduces to me what is bitcoin but i dont believe on him, and after 1 year my classmate is starting to make a big profit comes from bitcoin that's why on the year of 2016 i started to became bitcoiner and i joined a lot of bounty campaign to make a huge income and until now i am still supporting bitcoin.