What did you know about Bitcoin before becoming a bitcoiner?

[wildey]

Before getting to know Bitcoin, I was just someone who was trying to find dollar coffers through the PayperClick site. yeah, that is a pretty good thing for started. I have seen bitcoin several times before, it's just that I thought it was a tool for playing gambling, moreover the picture of dogecoin was also almost the same as bitcoin, so I thought that it was the same unit.

in 2014, I already tried to use PayperClick that were paid using bitcoin. it was quite useful for me, moreover, at that time, the web faucet was also still quite worth. however, making $ 1- $ 10 is something extraordinary for me.

the deeper I learned about bitcoin, and following the current, I was taken to this forum. and finally, I tried to learn about trading, investing and more. so aware, it turns out that bitcoin is a really very broad technology.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Well.. I have to admit the truth here. I first got in to cryptocurrency almost three years back, in 2017 January. One of my friends introduced me to Bitcoins and he was in to it since 2012. Before 2017, I had never heard about Bitcoin and even if some stranger had talked to me about BTC, then I would have considered as a ponzi scheme or a scam.

[fiulpro]

I knew it was some virtual currency which is not limited to one or more countries but is actually something that is more or so global money , I had no idea how complicated it was for the governments and all , how they handled it and stuff , I was introduced by my friend to Bitcoins and I also then helped many of my mates to get to know Bitcoins and what they are .
I think it for sure helped me and them with a lot of things .

[Palider]

I started Bitcoin in 2014. I was accidentally discovered when I was looking for online jobs. It may sound funny but I used to earn 0.01 BTC daily when it was priced at 200 $. I make 1 $ daily and have been really happy since then because I have proven that I can make money with Bitcoin.

2016 to 2018 here I have made a lot of money and have started a business.

[Mike Mayor]

I first came across bitcoin when I was trying to find a way to make money online. I also discovered it because growing up I always wanted to buy things online but never could and my parents would not allow me to use the bank account. Finally, my father got paypal connected when I was in my last year of school but it was not the same. Being paid had fees and all this tape it was a pain. Being paid was a problem. Then bitcoin dolved this problem. I also wanted to start mining and I really wish I had however I am at least glad I never since the website we were planning to get the miner from was a scam. However we know about bitcoin when it was only $10
I lost interested for 3 years due to personal issues and I then returned and began working on the forum and collect and learning of new methods to make money doing all sorts of things.

[Vaslime]

my friend told me that i can earn coin virtually and the price is good when accumulated so i try and just got lucky.

[Youghoor]

The first time  I heard  or read about bitcoin was when I was looking for a different payment option for paying for goods purchased online.  I got to know about Bitcoin through the localbitcoin site. That is when I became more and more interested in knowing what bitcoin is and how I can use it for my daily transactions online.

[Cacingkemi]

Before getting to know Bitcoin, I was just someone who was trying to find dollar coffers through the PayperClick site. yeah, that is a pretty good thing for started. I have seen bitcoin several times before, it's just that I thought it was a tool for playing gambling, moreover the picture of dogecoin was also almost the same as bitcoin, so I thought that it was the same unit.

in 2014, I already tried to use PayperClick that were paid using bitcoin. it was quite useful for me, moreover, at that time, the web faucet was also still quite worth. however, making $ 1- $ 10 is something extraordinary for me.

the deeper I learned about bitcoin, and following the current, I was taken to this forum. and finally, I tried to learn about trading, investing and more. so aware, it turns out that bitcoin is a really very broad technology.

exactly what I feel, I am looking for ways to make money online by reading many articles there and then there is one that discusses that bitcoin is a modern digital currency that has good potential for the future. and finally I was interested in the article, various ways I could do to be able to get bitcoin, even at that time I was very interested in the faucet that was widely available, so a lot of my time was spent getting bitcoin from the faucet, because at that time I really- really a beginner who does not have broader insight in this field

[bozo333]

When I heard about the Bitcoin I got the news from the friend informing me like option to earn Bitcoins and that Bitcoins has great value in the marketplace.
this was happened on 2015 and I just started as i got the information from my friend.

[boris2470]

Well.. I have to admit the truth here. I first got in to cryptocurrency almost three years back, in 2017 January. One of my friends introduced me to Bitcoins and he was in to it since 2012. Before 2017, I had never heard about Bitcoin and even if some stranger had talked to me about BTC, then I would have considered as a ponzi scheme or a scam.

I think that for innovations like Bitcoin, you need to properly acquaint newcomers with it. But how to do it so that it does not look like a Ponzi scheme?

[cherryganda]

I dont know anything before on Bitcoin. i am just looking for a homebase work to add the profit i am getting.
Then i bumped into this forum and from readin and understanding I found out that i can earn here.
I need 4 weeks to become a Jr. member and join signature campaign, i spend those 4 weeks on posting and reading here.
I learned alot and as always said, experience is the best teacher.

[Genemind]

I started with zero knowledge in Bitcoin. I was clueless and I even thought of it as a Ponzi scheme until a friend of mine introduced it to me. He was patient to explain how Bitcoin works as an investment. I joined this forum and I read different articles until I gained lots of knowledge about it. I have thought that Bitcoin itself is just digital money until I discovered how big the crypto world is.

[minersday]

I first got know know about Bitcoin through a friend who was a first year computer science student  in the year 2012. He use to tell me about cryptography and Bitcoin. I fell in love with Bitcoin once I understood the idea bitcoin introduced to the world and the financial ecosystem. So I began reading about Bitcoin since then till now. 

[romero121]

One of my friend explained about bitcoin, further he instructed to create a blockchain wallet and he showed me how transaction takes place. Those were days when bitcoin was under $500, and he explained about the value. By that time this price itself looked like a big thing. He showed me about faucets and campaigns through which bitcoin can be earned. This is where I started to earn bitcoin, and I had a thinking over bitcoin as an way of earning and nothing more. Later as years passed understood what bitcoin is all about and its advantages.

[Alexandr Kirichenko]

Unfortunately, I learned about it quite late. Only in 2017 I realized what bitcoin is, and what kind of technology it is. I've never heard anything like it before. Somehow it passed all by me.

[karanggatak]

my friend tell me abiut bitcoin. he said that you can earn profit from here, so i try to learn. for the first time i just make money from this site, and as time go by i try, read, learn more about cryptocurrent. so, its not only make money from digital current, but you can do what fiat cant do here.
btw, this site is really helping people to get side job.

[Astvile]

I literally have zero knowledge about bitcoin not until one of my friends told me about this, told me that he earns money in here so I got interested and read some articles watched some documentary about bitcoin and here I am now earning my living of it. One thought in my head also is that bitcoin is a scam, but I didn't stick to that mindset and I tried to be positive and thankfully it all payed off.

[nicecrypto]

To be honest I didn't know much, I just know it to be a digital currency that can be trade to any fiat currency, I was curious so I decided to be part of it, I gain more understanding about btc and blockchain by becoming a bitcoiner, I think the first thing that draw people's attention to btc is the earning or making profit aspect, then after that you will want to know other aspects of it.

[judeafante]

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?

Same experiences as yours it took me a long time to become a Bitcoiner, only after reading a lot of articles and watching testimonials on Youtube I soon realized I need to be on Bitcoin and be part of it's propagation, one of the main attraction to me is becoming a bounty hunter where I earn tokens that I can trade to Bitcoin, there are so many good testimonials, I do not regret coming in and sharing my experiences and testimonials.

[BlackFor3st]

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?

My story is a rare one, at that time my only goal is to earn extra money while working as my work is very simple and I have plenty of time using the internet. So while I am bored, I joined a lot of forum and that is the first time I meet satoshi but I didn't think of it as important as the price at that time is very low it is somewhat 200$ per 1 bitcoin.

But after I transfer to bitcointalk forum, I dig a lot about cryto currencies especially the bitcoin and the benefits of it. And after that it took me like 6 months of reading and understand how the forum works and how the crypto currencies work.

I did nothing at that time, I only read and do some research. Then after 6 months, I started my journey as a bitcoiner and started to earn some satoshis from free faucets,bounty campaigns, airdrops and few services that I offered.