What did you know about Bitcoin before becoming a bitcoiner?

[jakoylantern]

For me, I have known bitcoin to my friend because he introduced it to me in 2015. On that year, I try it and earn some few amounts of bitcoin, but I become uninterested because of the environment; on that year, it's illegal to my country and doesn't have any support. That's the reason why. But when the time that a company in our state accepts bitcoin, I become interested again, especially when it becomes legal and expensive.

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[teosanru]

As far as I remember first time I heard about bitcoin I got to know it's virtual means of payment. For quite a long time I thought that it is nothing but just another variant of paypal which let's users make payments on international websites. It was later that I came to know it has it's own price and therefore realized it's a currency in itself. Then i studied more and realized that how it's different from fiat and other assets and this was the time when I was introduced to this forum. Then for sometime I never heard about this currency until when the wave of cryptocurrencies suddenly came.

[xSkylarx]

I thought at first that bitcoin is just a currency that it is used only for hyip websites. Way back 2016 many people promoted a certain hyip website where you can earn free amounts under someone's referral. I saw it everyday to the point that it got me curious. I researched other ways to earn it and I learned about faucets. I tried both of those but stopped in the long run because I think faucets are just a waste of time and I've been scammed by some HYIPs.

[Apes]

I first thought that having bitcoin was illegal and when I heard the name bitcoin that occurred to me in my mind was a currency but how would I find it and if I already had it how to use it. so at that moment I decided to stop my search. One time I met an old friend who had already been playing Bitcoin, and it was he who made it easier for me to become bitcoiners.

[Shasha80]

My beginning I knew about bitcoin when looking for opportunities to make extra money, I found a faucet bitcoin from a blog that writes ways to
make money from the internet. And one of them claim faucet paid 500-1000 satoshi if I'm not mistaken. At that time I did not understand
at all what it was bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain. From there I started to seriously study bitcoin, because of the faucet payment with
bitcoin. I must learn bitcoin until I understand. Until finally I understood too, from there began know the world of gambling using coin
crypto, I had a big profit. But the name gambling finally loses too, after that just get acquainted with the world of trading. Now I am becoming
a bitcoiner who love trading.

[Sadlife]

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

almost same story like yours but i discover crypto little late in 2015 when i was in working in computer company but my function is not totally computer related because i was in electrical department
one of the employee becomes my close friend and he introduced me about bitcoin that time,but since i am not really a tech person i just did not give big interest not until we separate ways as he transferred into another company

until in late 2016 when a cousin told me about his investment in crypto not only bitcoin because he was joining ICO that time is growing fast and i remember about what my friend is trying to teach me wayback.

and thats the start of my crypto journey and the rest is history lol

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin.

thinking the same and i am sure thousands or millions of us having the same thoughts 

[Tolosi]

I stumbled accidentally into Bitcoin by sitting idle in my hotel room and browsing the net all day long in early 2013. By that time its price was about 30 USD. Took me long time to actually buy some. Before that day I just knew that bitcoin existed but no more than that. Much earlier I enjoyed using  Pretty Good Privacy program so I understood value of privacy and I think that is why bitcoin attracted me.

[Magkirap]

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 I engaged with cryptos I don't know that exactly what is crypto. I know it as bitcoin in general. Before, I have read many articles about bitcoin stating that it is often use in deep or darkweb. Probably in some illegal stuffs like drugs and pornography. Before I thought that it was not real until I knew that my classmate was earning good money with these crypto that is why I became intetested and tried this trend.

[malekbaba]

I have a nice story to share. I wanted a new PC and I searched for opportunity to earn money through online. I found some options like cpa marketing, view advertisements, captcha entry etc. And I tried some of them, earned very tiny amount of money. Suddenly I found a link of a crypto that paid coins for playing games. And through that program, a heard about mining. Fortunately I had decent graphic card and from there I started my crypto journey few years ago.

[asus09]

Before know bitcoin can be trading or investing I know bitcoin as payment, I use bitcoin for buying or selling my soft ware product using bitcoin, by bitcoin payment safety than I have use PayPal could be dispute and take back my balance, using paypla transaction safety and the buyer could not make dispute how they make with paypal payment transaction.

[abel1337]

Honestly, I really don't care about knowing bitcoin at first. My friend keeps babbling me about bitcoin and investments. Later on, I was convinced and starts to buy and earn some bitcoin from different sites. I read articles about bitcoin and the articles about bitcoin that time is limited, By the way, it happens in early 2013. I was hibernated for a year and come back in 2016 because a bull run happens at that time and I want to surf the waves to earn profits. It's hard to think that my friend who keeps babbling me helps me on my current life situation and we both still use bitcoin until now. I'm very thankful to him that he didn't give up trying to teach me how to use it.

[adaseb]

I actually also started to hear about BTC back in 2012 but shrugged it off as some scam. But I used to trade forex and stocks in those days and from time to time they actually did some bitcoin charts and I was puzzled why they would do that since to me it seems like some scam.

It wasn't until I started mining back in 2014 and learning about blockchain technology and difficulty and how security works where I actually got interested. And the rest is history and since that time I've invested more and more time to learning about BTC and ETH and taught a few people locally how it works and many people like the idea.

I think bitcoin got a lot of bad publicitiy in the past and that is why many people stay away from it. It started with the Silk Road bust, then with the massive price crashes, MtGox issues, and people just got a bad taste in their mouth when they hear about cryptos in general.

[febriyana]

That is started from 2013, where i am still learning about business online.
At that time i still use some payment processor.
First i use paypal but they need verification also that is expensive. Then i move to Liberty Reserve, but the government block the site. So i move to Webmoney, but that is hard to find the exchanger.
So i hear Bitcoin, firstly that is weird they use decentralized. But i still curious to learn it.
So i try find how to get it, first i join on freebitco.in, i refer around 200+ real referral. From there i got around 1 BTC.
But my mistake i gamble it, because i think this is really easy to get it and also cheap.
So i look year by year the price is bullish. I confidence to still become bitcoiner.

[Kyraishi]

I actually also started to hear about BTC back in 2012 but shrugged it off as some scam. But I used to trade forex and stocks in those days and from time to time they actually did some bitcoin charts and I was puzzled why they would do that since to me it seems like some scam.

It wasn't until I started mining back in 2014 and learning about blockchain technology and difficulty and how security works where I actually got interested. And the rest is history and since that time I've invested more and more time to learning about BTC and ETH and taught a few people locally how it works and many people like the idea.

I think bitcoin got a lot of bad publicitiy in the past and that is why many people stay away from it. It started with the Silk Road bust, then with the massive price crashes, MtGox issues, and people just got a bad taste in their mouth when they hear about cryptos in general.

Pretty similar to how I heard about it as well, I actually think our stories are probably the most common ones that are out there, and it begins with us just shrugging it off as a scam during the early period.

Then it ends up with us paying closer attention to it either via investing or mining and then we start learning about i more, liked hearing your story.

Mines a bit different that I only used to use BTC for game transactions and gambling when I didn't realise it had actual value.

[Sithara007]

Well... I first heard about Bitcoin in 2013, when my husband talked about it. I couldn't understand anything and I told him that I was not interested. But I regretted that decision later that year, when Bitcoin went up by more than 100x. I registered to this forum in 2014, and have been trying to accumulate as many BTC as I can, ever since. I think that a lot of people had experience similar to mine. When I first heard about Bitcoin, I thought that it some ponzi or pyramid scheme (I had lost some amount to ponzi schemes before coming to know about BTC).

[carlisle1]

nothing that i know but a SCAm,and i believe many of us have the same thinking whenever we hear something like profitable in internet back then 2016-2018 because most of the available income provider that time is scamming and only few are legit

and thinking that this is another form of Currency who will buy the story?but when some people close to me starts getting or generating profit then i start to realize to give it a try and that trial brings me more than what i need for and until now?i always cherish the chance that i come to learn and be fart of this community

[dimox]

i know about trading and stock. and i follow some trading when i was in college. and i ask my friend to join about trading but they refuse because its hard to do. and maybe in 2012-2013 i join on bitcoin, learn more about butcoin, look for give away from many site to collect it freely as much as possible, and than join on this forum 2015. i feel great when remember my fight, when bitcoin price cheap.

[jets567]

The first time I heard about Bitcoin is way back 2014, that is the time when I'm so addicted in spending cash on different online games and then one day a merchant of an online games item that I knew told me that he also accept Bitcoin as payment for the items that I was buying but I told him that I don't know about Bitcoin, the price of BTC is around $500 that time.

I do regret that I didn't make a proper research when the merchant told me about it because I just got involve in Bitcoin 2 years ago before the bull run started.

[virasisog]

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 was actually clueless about bitcoin before ,there was just this time that i was jobless and i was surfing the internet and i just happen to come across a post about bitcoin. It immediately catches my attention and find myself so interested about knowing more about it. And the rest is history.

[whtchocla7e]

I used to know about Bitcoin in 2013, when I was just participating in the XML airdrop program and selling it to merchants. At that time, I was not aware of the true value of bitcoin. Up to now its development has made the whole world recognize this existence.