How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

[unotohero]

I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

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[kaggie]

Sometimes I wonder whether criminals have established their own specific cryptocurrencies, because even criminals need to trade favors for favours.

But then again, using bitcoin or any crypto would be pretty dumb as a criminal, since with the wrong leak could trace you to everything that you've done with time stamps and possibly even locations. And you'd never know what was a honeypot, especially because you'd be dealing with criminals (and probably dumb ones).

The openness of bitcoin may actually help lower criminality over time because of these features, and make politicians more accountable to their people in more than one way.

[unotohero]

Sometimes I wonder whether criminals have established their own specific cryptocurrencies, because even criminals need to trade favors for favours.

But then again, using bitcoin or any crypto would be pretty dumb as a criminal, since with the wrong leak could trace you to everything that you've done with time stamps and possibly even locations. And you'd never know what was a honeypot, especially because you'd be dealing with criminals (and probably dumb ones).

The openness of bitcoin may actually help lower criminality over time because of these features, and make politicians more accountable to their people in more than one way.

but scammers, criminals and rug pulls happen everywhere, (as far as I know) few are caught

[kaggie]

but scammers, criminals and rug pulls happen everywhere, (as far as I know) few are caught

You might be wright.  
I mean, your statement might be right.  

You may not hear about everyone who is caught though. I suspect law enforcement doesn't always want to give up all of their methods. =/

[milani]

I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

I have heard first about Bitcoin from my friend, his friend was a miner. It sounded first a bit complicated and unclear. and after some period of time I have heard from my friend that lots of people buy this coins and it may give a good profit one day. It sounded like something unreal, but after having learnt in deep about btc and crypto I started to be interested in crypto more seriously.

[bitmover]

Sometimes I wonder whether criminals have established their own specific cryptocurrencies, because even criminals need to trade favors for favours.

But then again, using bitcoin or any crypto would be pretty dumb as a criminal, since with the wrong leak could trace you to everything that you've done with time stamps and possibly even locations. And you'd never know what was a honeypot, especially because you'd be dealing with criminals (and probably dumb ones).

The openness of bitcoin may actually help lower criminality over time because of these features, and make politicians more accountable to their people in more than one way.

I don't think bitcoin is more used by criminals than other currencies.

Drug dealers always used cash, which is a lot more anonymous and untraceable than bitcoin is. There is a good TV show about this in Netflix, Narcos. This series tells the story of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug dealer who built an empire selling drugs in the united states.

He used only USD cash. In the TV show you can see he receiving millions and millions of dollars in cash. He couldn't even handle so much money, then he even started burying money to use later on!

Criminal activity has nothing to do with BTC. Criminals will use any kind of currency.


I first heard about bitcoin when I reading about privacy online. After a few days, i discovered an article saying that bitcoin was a good currency for privacy... I couldn't stop reading about it since then.

[unotohero]

I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
:3
How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

I have heard first about Bitcoin from my friend, his friend was a miner. It sounded first a bit complicated and unclear. and after some period of time I have heard from my friend that lots of people buy this coins and it may give a good profit one day. It sounded like something unreal, but after having learnt in deep about btc and crypto I started to be interested in crypto more seriously.

sometimes i think "what if i could turn back time and buy some bitcoins"   maybe everyone has thought like that   

[kaggie]

sometimes i think "what if i could turn back time and buy some bitcoins"   

Have you bought yet though? Are you planning to buy?

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Greek guy I knew told me to buy just 1BTC in 2013. I ignored him until around 6-9 months later & I then bought 1.

I got obsessed, bought a lot more & the rest is history.

[unotohero]

sometimes i think "what if i could turn back time and buy some bitcoins"  

Have you bought yet though? Are you planning to buy?

not yet , better wait for elon musk tweet about s*it coin  

[Desmong]

I had about Bitcoin when I was in University then, no one knows how to acquire it cause there is limited information about it on net then. We had to joking play about it and it price as a means of one world currency and the price was also lesser than $1 making it look like it wouldn't survive in the long run if government policies eventually stand against it. Now Butcoin had been a gold that is needed to mined to acquire it, what a remarkable long journey since the creation of Bitcoin.

[kaggie]

Have you bought yet though? Are you planning to buy?

not yet , better wait for elon musk tweet about s*it coin  

A solid strategy.

It'll bottom out soon enough I'm sure. They say "It's time in the market, not timing."
Timing helps, but time in bitcoin will pay out, no doubt.

[Upgrade00]

Heard about it from an acquaintance, got quite fascinated by the concept and dived right into researching about it, I haven't looked back since then. This was during the beginning of the 2018 bear market, which gave me an experience of the market cycles.
It took me not long from here to own my first fraction of a coin.

[NeuroticFish]

There was in the news about problems related to a big exchange where people were trading dollars vs a coin that can be created by some computer processing and the coin can work without banks.
It was the end of 2013, the exchange was Mt Gox, and actually Bitcoin was no longer mined by CPU (nor GPU). I thought I've missed the train and I spent (too) long time with altcoins until I actually became Bitcoiner, but nobody's perfect. But that was when I first heard of Bitcoin.

[Lanatsa]

I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

When my friend introduce it to me but that time we do talk about on how to make income online and he had suggested about this forum and that's my first crypto journey and

same as yours, I did really have able to commit myself on learning even more and I was grateful that everything turns out to be beneficial on my part and since

crypto or bitcoin did really change my life in terms of financial but of course you would really be needing to work hard for it and not just wait up.

[bL4nkcode]

That was when I'm bored playing online games all day and start searching on how to earn online to sustain my gaming needs lol. And a facebook group/community related to bitcoin pops and I start following it. The members were very welcoming they even give me tip of 0.0001 btc joining and give me tips everything on how tos, thats way back 2015.

[DoublerHunter]

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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

^ One of my close friends abroad told me about BTC way back in 2015 but I ignored him for almost a year until such day he told me again that he gained profit and that time I never doubted I purchased my first BTC in LocalBitcoin and in Kraken. In the following months, I found this forum and that was 2016 which is what I thought before the only benefit is to learn blockchain technology but now not only by that. Just sharing this, before faucets and bounty hunters are very profitable not like these days.

[Marvelman]

How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

I've never actually heard of Bitcoin until a few years ago, when its price jumped to $ 20,000 for the first time. I guess I had heard of the cryptocurrencies, but I didn't think that they would ever gain traction. It was something that people talked about in fringe circles, but I didn't think that it would ever be a practical thing.

Obviously, I was young and stupid back then... I am a bit older now.

[nurilham]

This topic has been discussed before, I think it is not really necessary to create a new one.
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=798474.0, made by izanagi narukami
2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2527447.0, made by Hobo66

If you want to share your experience about your first time to know Bitcoin, you can share it with a more specific title.
Ex: First time I know Bitcoin, My experience to know Bitcoin at the first time, etc


Regarding my experience, I have been familiar with Bitcoin for a quite long time. I have known Bitcoin since 2017 and I already bought some of Bitcoin at that time. When do you know Bitcoin exactly, mate @unotohero? You don't tell the detailed time on the thread above. You are better to let us know, so we know how long your experience in Bitcoin.

[GeorgeJohn]

I first heard of it when I friend of mine said(jokingly) that he could get anyone assassinated for 6BTC on silk road. I asked what it was and he said that it was an online currency that nobody uses. I googled Bitcoin..I have not slept since.
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How did you first hear about Bitcoin?

Bitcoin information is everywhere currently, so for we to grab the of cryptocurrency this season is no longer difficult bade on internet, many people notice what is cryptocurrency especially bitcoin through friends in the year 2010 and 2011, but due to the advert of cryptocurrency online everyone is now aware of cryptocurrency, even investing on it, shall in this scenario it depends on how you notice what's cryptocurrency.