Share Your Experiences

[gantez]

Was reading about how Bitcoin first came into existence and people's first experiences with Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc on Reddit. I want to know how your guy's first experiences was with Bitcoin, and if you ever had any regrets or wins throughout the years. Also, would be cool to know how people first actually got Bitcoin back nearly a decade ago when it wasn't as easy as buying some from a local Bitcoin ATM near you.

I have read different stories of this thread especially from first page , in my own case I have not had it very good with bitcoin after hearing about it like 2 years ago. Some had to do faucets and it changed their lives, I guess they were early adopters.
I'm waiting to also see if I can tell a sweet story with bitcoin.

[samuraijin]

I have known bitcoin since 2016, what I regretted was that at that time my friends recommended buying some altcoin, when they were still cheap and affordable, unfortunately I didn't buy that and the price increased at the end of 2017, but I took it's as an important lesson not to waste the best moments like that anymore

so  now you are buying altcoin already?specially early this year when the lowest market capitalization recorded after 2 years?

yes, I only have a few altcoins that have a high trading volume I have already bought them like ETH and EOS, I will wait for the moment when the bear market is really over, because I don't want to enter the market without knowledge so I need to consult my friends to get altcoin others are cheaper

many altcoins that experienced an increase higher in the last year but now decrease by 90%, including ETH and EOS. so it's still good to buy it now, just waiting for bitcoin going up because usually, some altcoins like eth will follow the movements of bitcoin. about the experience in bitcoin, I know in 2013, when the price of bitcoin was hype because it reached above $1000. since then I was interested and I get a lot of bitcoin from the bounty when the heyday of the bounty in 2014-2017.

thanks for the advice, but I need to wait for the right time, as we know the price of bitcoin is now back below $ 9000 and it makes me feel uncomfortable, but I will always be on the market preparing to buy some other recommended atlcoin

[Edraket31]

thanks for the advice, but I need to wait for the right time, as we know the price of bitcoin is now back below $ 9000 and it makes me feel uncomfortable, but I will always be on the market preparing to buy some other recommended atlcoin

The good decision will be always at on your own hand, if you are uncomfortable, just sit back and relax for a while and wait for the perfect timing that you think and you are sure that good things will happen for Bitcoin, no one will gonna force you to buy Bitcoin if you are not yet ready, so for me, follow your instinct as I do always, when I am in doubt I pause for a moment and wait for the perfect timing.

[Maotezi]

Ok, my history was like this

2014- It's the first time I'm giving more money to invest in bitcoin. (2.000$)
2015- It was probably the best year since I came out with a profit of $ 1,400 and had a total second thought about bitcoin. PROFIT 1.400$
2016- I was scamed, because I had no experience. LOST 1.000$
2017- I decided to dedicate bitcoin and its study, and invest about $ 1,000, bitcoin is declining, me at a loss. LOST 700$
2018- I decide that year to be an observer, not to participate.
2019- This year I had a couple of successful trades and a lot of progress on the mental things about bitcoin, that is, I don't give up easily, and that hard work brings...

You have to be cunning, look to the future, have a plan, to be successful in the crypto world.

[rodel caling]

The best experience bieng part bitcoin ethusiasm during the all time high last 2017, That year also start to study and learn more about bitcoin until I begin buy bitcoin as my trial investment and I surprise bitcoin boome into the market I get huge of proefits at that time but suddenly I shock before end of the year of 2017 bitcoin price begin to drops but, I continue to learn why bitcoin drop their price in the help of the discussion herein forum I get a lot of knowledge and understanding  all about bitcoin including the crypto currency.

[Lauren Smith]

I first founf ut about bitcoin on some high tech wbsites while i was looking for ways to earn money. I came across bitcoin mining and I liked it so much. The idea of generating your own money was amazing. Using digital forms of payment is the future and i akways like high tech futuristic stuff so bitcoin jaturally attracted me.

[cabron]

I didn't have BTC when I first started, I just tried buying XRP to trade it myself. When I got BTC, its not a new experience already since its almost the same thing for all crypto.

thanks for the advice, but I need to wait for the right time, as we know the price of bitcoin is now back below $ 9000 and it makes me feel uncomfortable, but I will always be on the market preparing to buy some other recommended atlcoin

The good decision will be always at on your own hand, if you are uncomfortable, just sit back and relax for a while and wait for the perfect timing that you think and you are sure that good things will happen for Bitcoin, no one will gonna force you to buy Bitcoin if you are not yet ready, so for me, follow your instinct as I do always, when I am in doubt I pause for a moment and wait for the perfect timing.

I can't find ways to relax when all are dumping and the value of your BTC keeps depreciating, its best to also dump and then also buy when they start buying as well. 

[LUCKMCFLY]

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In 2009, when Bitcoin was launched, a friend who studied with me at the university, went to the computer lab and told me that he was accumulating a digital currency through a tap, he told me they were free, that I would also take advantage, in I didn't pay attention to that moment, because I thought they were jobs through ads that paid very little.

In 2017 I found him again, he told me that he was trading with Bitcoin, then he told me that he had lost more than 1000 Bitcoins, he lost the private keys he had collected at that time from the university, he had it on a pendrive and he lost it, the truth It's amazing how that fortune was lost. The moral I took at that time so far is that everything, absolutely every opportunity should be seized no matter how simple it is.

[FaithInCrypto]

Was reading about how Bitcoin first came into existence and people's first experiences with Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc on Reddit. I want to know how your guy's first experiences was with Bitcoin, and if you ever had any regrets or wins throughout the years. Also, would be cool to know how people first actually got Bitcoin back nearly a decade ago when it wasn't as easy as buying some from a local Bitcoin ATM near you.

I've known Bitcoin since 2008 through a friend. Her husband is into mining at that time but I am one of those people who ignored its existence and importance so I focused on work and real-life solutions on financial problems. Then another friend of mine got herself into crypto around 2014, but then we're still clueless about its potential, the exchange was around $800 at that time. I can say that I 50% ignored all about it since I don't have $800 for one BTC. After a few months passed, BOOM! BTC went sky high to something I can't really afford so I only bought what my extra money could take. Then it went to its ATH after that last 2017 which I know a lot of people here know about it.

If you invested in BTC since the beginning or probably not later than 2015, you are still in profit even if we considered how much the rate BTC holds now. It was really a missed opportunity for HODLers like me at that time.

[diahsw]

My experience, in 2017, at that time bitcoin was rising to the peak of its popularity, so there I was very excited to hunt for bitcoin and finally I could buy a car, and shop ... !!

[arimamib]

My experience, in 2017, at that time bitcoin was rising to the peak of its popularity, so there I was very excited to hunt for bitcoin and finally I could buy a car, and shop ... !!

it's a big result if you get a car from this job, my best experience is to create an industry in the field of fashion and is still going well. The capital that I got from the results of being a bounty campaign participant and making several investments, which finally until now I own this industry

[Savemore]

I have known bitcoin since 2016, what I regretted was that at that time my friends recommended buying some altcoin, when they were still cheap and affordable, unfortunately I didn't buy that and the price increased at the end of 2017, but I took it's as an important lesson not to waste the best moments like that anymore

so  now you are buying altcoin already?specially early this year when the lowest market capitalization recorded after 2 years?

yes, I only have a few altcoins that have a high trading volume I have already bought them like ETH and EOS, I will wait for the moment when the bear market is really over, because I don't want to enter the market without knowledge so I need to consult my friends to get altcoin others are cheaper

many altcoins that experienced an increase higher in the last year but now decrease by 90%, including ETH and EOS. so it's still good to buy it now, just waiting for bitcoin going up because usually, some altcoins like eth will follow the movements of bitcoin. about the experience in bitcoin, I know in 2013, when the price of bitcoin was hype because it reached above $1000. since then I was interested and I get a lot of bitcoin from the bounty when the heyday of the bounty in 2014-2017.

thanks for the advice, but I need to wait for the right time, as we know the price of bitcoin is now back below $ 9000 and it makes me feel uncomfortable, but I will always be on the market preparing to buy some other recommended atlcoin

It makes you feel uncomfortable because you didn't do stop loss. You have poor risks management because even the price got breakdown you still not sell your posistion. I know that many traders are struggling and worrying because of the price of bitcoin, they gut stuck in their posistions and now they have loss in their portfolio. Holding in the year 2017 is a good decision but holding in this current year is not a good decision because the market is bear.

[Polar91]

Some of the first encounter with bitcoin consists of positive and negative sides. I would like to share first the negative.

As the bitcoin becomes an emerging technology, of course people are too excited on its capability in the market. As well as some people who are inclined with illegal activities, I've heard an information from a  fried about a site that utilizes bitcoin for sure, offered by services and products. With that, follows my impression about bitcoin as something good people would not want to use.

Followed by some torrents sites I've viewed that has their bitcoin logo accompanied by the address that seeks for some donations in BTC. From time to time, we could see how bitcoin is finding its true value, and as of the moment, bitcoin already becomes a widely shared currencies with positive impressions from people around the world.

[EdvinZ]

My first experience with cryptocurrency happened a few years ago. At the time, I bought with all the money LTC at the very top of the green candle. It was a discouraging experience. Why, I just had 300 bucks, and now I have two hundred. I started looking for my mistakes and eventually got my money back. In General, the FOMO syndrome, is one of the first that newcomers face coming to the crypto-currency market.

[tungaqhd]

Was reading about how Bitcoin first came into existence and people's first experiences with Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc on Reddit. I want to know how your guy's first experiences was with Bitcoin, and if you ever had any regrets or wins throughout the years. Also, would be cool to know how people first actually got Bitcoin back nearly a decade ago when it wasn't as easy as buying some from a local Bitcoin ATM near you.

My first experience with Bitcoin was 3 years ago when i decided to earn some free coins from faucet. That was the first time i heard about Bitcoin and then i started studying about trading, now Bitcoin is a part of my main income.

[Edraket31]

Was reading about how Bitcoin first came into existence and people's first experiences with Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, etc on Reddit. I want to know how your guy's first experiences was with Bitcoin, and if you ever had any regrets or wins throughout the years. Also, would be cool to know how people first actually got Bitcoin back nearly a decade ago when it wasn't as easy as buying some from a local Bitcoin ATM near you.

My first experience with Bitcoin was 3 years ago when i decided to earn some free coins from faucet. That was the first time i heard about Bitcoin and then i started studying about trading, now Bitcoin is a part of my main income.

I  started Bitcoin too when I got scammed then I posted my frustration in facebook then my friend in my childhood saw my post and started introducing the forum to me, since I was very frustrated and eagerness to earn money, I decided to stepped in here and learn everything I need, and I was never disappointed, thanks to our concerned friends.

[DreamStage]

I have started by checking some specific fauceters from some ads i received.

Then found out inside those fauceters Primedice Casino and joined it.
Started gambling, learned alot of new stuff about Bitcoin such as how to withdraw, addresses, wallets, what were exchangers and how could i get btc to fiat and vice versa.

Had some difficulties in gambling and trading on start but then got hust to and was very good experience to achieve at what i am now.

Also started reading more news about cryptocurrencies so that i could be aware of what could motivate both prices rise and drops.

[Bim abk]

I started to recognize bitcoin as a faucet player, in 2017 I started doing that and in that year I registered as a member of the forum until now. my first experience was paid quite large, which is $ 70 when joining a signature campaign. and until now I have income from this forum

[imstillthebest]

I have started by checking some specific fauceters from some ads i received.

Then found out inside those fauceters Primedice Casino and joined it.
Started gambling, learned alot of new stuff about Bitcoin such as how to withdraw, addresses, wallets, what were exchangers and how could i get btc to fiat and vice versa.

Had some difficulties in gambling and trading on start but then got hust to and was very good experience to achieve at what i am now.

Also started reading more news about cryptocurrencies so that i could be aware of what could motivate both prices rise and drops.

cool story bro  . not you but i see majority of users here were also started as a faucet claimer but of course that includes me as i also started to lurk on faucet sites to earn dust/peanuts  but eventually i got tired  so i step up the game from learning other stuffs on how can i earn a little bit more of cryptos . thankfully i stumbled upon on different paying sites including on this forum   . thankfully that my efforts are paid off as i still earn some cryptos until now despite the fall of the price  . 

[sulendra12]

Started to know Bitcoin at 2013, at that day I didn't even realize and felt didn't care with bitcoin because I was gaming freak at that moment and I felt like Bitcoin was just wasting my time because the price was really low at that money and I had no passion to even learn about that.

And then, guess what? I regret about my decision back on that day, If I had to come back to that day I would have slapped my face so hard.