Poll - How did you find out about Bitcointalk?

[DdmrDdmr]

Without going into the motives behind joining Bitcointalk, I was wondering how people’s first point of contact with the forum was made. Now we may need to jog the memory here a bit, although Beginners & Help tends to have newer profiles around, making the memory lane easier to walk.

If I recall correctly, I reached the forum at the time when searching for information on Bitcoin. I probably performed a Google search for "Bitcoin forum" and made it here through one of the results that popped-up.

What was the reference driver (source, not motive) that drove you to Bitcointalk?

[turkandjaydee]

What do you want to know when you first hear bitcoin? How to earn bitcoin of course  .

And then I searched it on a search engine. Voila, I found out there are 4 ways to earn bitcoin from some articles that I read.
1. Faucet (very popular at the time when I searched this).
2. Trading
3. Mining
4. Signature Campaign

And then I was researching for these 4 options, and when I went for the 4th option which is the signature campaign, I found this forum  

[Bttzed03]

It's close between friend and social media. I was introduced to airdrops/bounties thru social media and it was the main reason why I created an account here but the first time I heard about bitcoin was thru a friend. That was before I started joining airdrops/bounties. I just can't remember if she ever mentioned about bitcointalk. I voted for friend anyway, there's no bitcointalk without bitcoin. 

[nannu968]

I got to know about Bitcoin from my friends and I learned about this forum from social media.
At first I know about this forum from various ico project ads on social media,
Most of the ico project's are posted their Announcement thread on forum, I used to read the Announcement threads thus slowly I became a member of the forum.

[GazetaBitcoin]

I remember also that I was searching on Google information about Bitcoin, about mining, about cryptography... One of the links led me here. since then, I never left, although I made the account much later from the moment I found about the forum. I think 1-2 years I used it without being registered.

[Insanerman]

Honestly, I really do not have any interest in bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency before, until one time I saw that one of my friends is getting richer and richer that comes to a point that he is able to afford expensive gadgets.

I wonder and ask him of what he is doing in order to make money online then he recommended this website. From that time, I began to take interest in the crypto world and eventually join useless bounties that take my precious time away . (Of course not until now)

Hell yeah, I think I found this website because of envy that I feel towards my crypto rich friend. SAD

[mk4]

I probably performed a Google search for "Bitcoin forum" and made it here through one of the results that popped-up.

It was pretty much the same with me when I was first looking into what bitcoin is. If I remember correctly, the "other bitcoin forum" came out higher on the Google search results back in the day hence I joined that first, also thinking that it was the "official" bitcoin forum lmao. I then realized after a while that Bitcointalk was far more active.

[evgenia_volkova]

While learning about crypto I do remember that google use to show the links of bitcointalk to read but, I had not clicked to me initially that the platform was this worth. Then when we meet common friends and they also mentioned about it and then I asked them more about it.

[hilariousandco]

Google. Searched for "bitcoin forum" and the rest is history.

[joniboini]

You probably wanted to add some local rule that more or less says "If your reason is not stated on the poll options or others, please describe it by posting there. Otherwise, just select one of the available options to prevent spams etc".

[Henri Cartier]

When I was searching for some crypto-related query on the search engine, there were many bitcointalk topics related to that query. I landed up in Bitcointalk like this. I got inspired by the answers given by the members of the forum. Later I also opened an account on Bitcointalk and started sharing my knowledge and also I have learned many things from here.

[DdmrDdmr]

<…> the "other bitcoin forum" came out higher on the Google search results back in the day hence I joined that first, also thinking that it was the "official" bitcoin forum lmao. I then realized after a while that Bitcointalk was far more active <…>

The sample results are very small in the poll so far, and cannot in any case be conclusive of facts, but seeing "search engine" being the first current poll runner, reminds me that SEM/SEO is important in the forum’s placement and traffic generation. That not only has an English reading, but also in every single language that has a local board (/thread) on the forum.

For example, if I search on google.es for "foro bitcoin" (bitcoin forum), the first direct link to Bitcointalk appears on position number 17 (second page of search results). If I simply search for the term "Bitcoin" on the same search engine domain, I did not find a direct link to Bitcointalk within the first 18 (default) pages of results. Ok the term does have a very broad set of information out there, and paid ads and such, but I’m not convinced search results couldn’t get any better …

[vapourminer]

been a while and my memory has never fired on all cylinders anyway but..

i know i 1st heard about bitcoin in an anandtech forum post. probably just used a search engine after that.

EDIT: in 2011 (before forks and drama and such) a search for "bitcoin forum" only gave one result IIRC

[hd49728]

I knew about the forum in 2017 when the guy I know on Facebook made his status about airdrops for old accounts. He is very famous in my local, so I created my account because of my curiosity (I knew he stated old accounts). One those days, I did not know too much about bitcoin, and crypto currency so that forum is helpful for me (I only felt it is helpful months later).

That is where I came from and joined the forum. I know you guys mostly don't want to see such boring stories but it is mine.

[Asuspawer09]

Probably it was on a Google search and also recommended by a friend. You know when you search a complex about bitcoin and cryptocurrency question on google and sometimes it already had a discussion here in the forum, it happened to me I forgot what is the question that I search but a bitcointalk discussion appears. I become familiar and the forum until a friend of mine recommended this site mo me since im already a bit familiar in the forum I take my friend's advice, then created a new account and then started my journey here in the forum.

[ShowOff]

I am not lying to myself that I am recommended by a friend or acquaintance to join bitcointalk.org. Discussion forum about bitcoin and a community of bitcoin lovers from all over the world.

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Isnt this a motive and you dont have to say it because the OP has said it from the beginning.

[Findingnemo]

One of my friends suggested me about bitcoin in the year 2013 - 14 that it will be one of the most important revolution innovation which is going to be more bloom in the next few years but I thought that it is not going to make anything influential as he suggested but in 2017 only I realized that I did make great mistake not knowing how much change i is going to bring to the wold's economic structure.

In 2017 he itself remind me about bitcointalk to get more intensive information can be found here.

[LbtalkL]

Way back last 2017 I was searching about faucets I found bitcointalk thru search engines, I was finding info about XRB faucets (now nano) I bump into bitcointalk I was just reading I didn't register yet. And then airdrop and bounties came famous I was interested and registered and that's how I started with bitcointalk. Later on, my knowledge about bitcoin grows as I read in this forum and communicate with other members it really helps me to be knowledgeable about cryptocurrency and blockchains. And I am very amazed and proud that the creator of bitcoin is the founder of this forum I am glad to be a member here.

[Theb]

This is probably one of the lamest stories you will hear but I actually found out Bitcoin in a Facebook group which I actually joined right after I found an article about Bitcoin being the new "gold". When I was a total newbie in Bitcoin and the whole crypto industry I got so curious that I joined a lot of crypto groups about trading and one day a famous cloud mining/hyip site, Hashocean, suddenly vanish and it got talked a lot in the group and then one of the members linked a thread in Bitcointalk. It was that one thread that actually made me curious about the site and made me interested because Bitcoin has an actual forum. Bitcointalk itself is considerably more better compared to the FB groups I have joined combined. It was more organized in a sense that I don't have to jump to different groups just to find topics and questions I want to find the answer from. Aside from that comparing BCT to the FB groups I have joined there is actually a conversation or a healthy debate going on which makes the forum more complete, unlike in the groups where you will see some "yes" and "nos" without any kind of explanation whatsoever.

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Topics like these does bring out some memories 2 years back  I never got to know anything from my friends and all were just self taught. I first got to know about bitcoin in 2016 and never read a lot about the same until before December 2017. I just read about bitcoin in general from wikipedia somewhere around December 24, 2017 and for the second time on Christmas, when I thought of reading about bitcoin I saw a medium article which described about bitcointalk and how this forum played a role in satoshi's last messages.

The forum never made a great impact on me for the first time. On New Year 2018, I received $2 worth of BTC for buying a new mobile from a local shop! To understand about the best wallets to store my btc, I created an account here on January 2 and certainly created a topic in my local board asking about the  best wallet in the market to store my $2 btc. This is how I got to know about bitcointalk! 

P.S The topic had a short span of life and was removed by MOD on Day 2