When and how did you discover Bitcoin?

[Foolhardy]

I heard about bitcoin for the first time through friends. It was a hot topic back then as it is now, so I did a little bit of research and thought it was best to wait until I find out everything that I need to know before getting into it. It’s been a while since I’ve started trading crypto and it’s a great journey.

[1714080036]

1714080036

[Ebede]

I heard about bitcoin for the first time through friends. It was a hot topic back then as it is now, so I did a little bit of research and thought it was best to wait until I find out everything that I need to know before getting into it. It’s been a while since I’ve started trading crypto and it’s a great journey.

when you don't know about bitcoin, you will join people who don't bitcoin purpose to criticize cryptocurrency but when you are in, is when you will understand why people choose Bitcoin or cryptocurrency investment than manual or offline investment, even the news of bitcoin now is creating way of adoption for it development, today I'm not regretting why i know bitcoin and invested on it.

[FinallyRegistered]

I found out about it in probably 2016.  Didn't buy until 2017 though.  I mostly held, but traded a lot in 2018 which didn't end too well for me. But luckily Ive always held and ever since around 2018, I've really gotten into the aspect of bitcoin that there's no intermediary.  No banks.  Peer to peer cash transfer, it's really quite remarkable.  I'm old now, and as I've learned over the years, I can say with confidence that it's the fastest growing technology I've ever seen.  Truly incredible what bitcoin is, and what it can become.  I hope it lifts up those in 3rd world countries that don't have access to banks, and I truly believe it is power for the people. It will change everything.

[oudomopo]

I first heard the word "bitcoin" back in like in 2020. I saw videos of people talking about bitcoin and making jokes out of it. In 2021, I saw even more videos of bitcoin and this time, people were talking about a lot of money in videos. I decided to search up the price of bitcoin and google said that the price was exactly $50,000. Right now, I was shocked when I searched up the price and it was exactly at $50,000. So in late 2021, I got interested in bitcoin and decided to invest money into one of the popular investment apps called "Robinhood." Here I am now. Recently I started mining and so far i made 14 cents off of bitcoin. So yes, I am new here as you can tell by reading this. Bitcoin is a great cryptocurrency. People can discover bitcoins by listening to finance, video jokes, and other... I've learned bitcoin, how it works, and the history of it.

[Brownish1]

The first time I heard about Bitcoin, it was a friend of mine that first told me about Bitcoin and I was like how does this work, and how can this be a help to someone's life. So I decided to search and no how it work. Then I go forward to search about Bitcoin online by googling it. It was from there I came to know more about Bitcoin, the history of Bitcoin, how it work, how to mine Bitcoin, how to buy and sell Bitcoin and the price of Bitcoin when I saw the price it shocked me. And through so many researched I came to realize that Bitcoin is so legit.

[riso2015]

The first time I got to know bitcoin I saw on the forum in 2015 then I was searching on google, and I tried to ask my friend who has been in the crypto world for a long time, he wanted to guide me and always taught me about investing in bitcoin, he also told me about the risks what I'm facing, even now I'm still consulting with him, every time I make bitcoin transactions and invest bitcoins I always ask my friends.

[Pujangga]

The first time I heard about bitcoin was from a talk show on CNBC TV in 2013, at that time there was a resource person who told me about bitcoin who was successful in mining bitcoin and could become a millionaire because of a significant price spike, since then I've been interested in knowing about bitcoin but started being active trading in 2015.

[Ahli38]

i found bitcoin by accident on pay per click or pay to click sites or on faucet i don't remember what site it was. what i remember is i do dollar or bitcoin paid tasks by clicking on ads. and it was around 2011-2012 or maybe 2013. I can't remember for sure.

and at the time I didn't know bitcoin would be so expensive. because I probably exchanged a lot of PTC bitcoins at that time into dollars.
my biggest regret is that.

[darkv0rt3x]

I somehow discovered Bitcoin (or some subject related to Bitcoin, probably hashing) somehwere around 2014. That's when I registered in this forum. But I think I wasn't looking for Bitcoin by then, so I didn't give it too much importance back then.

I think I was playing with hashcat and eventually came across with this forum due to graphics for hashing passwords and they were also being used for mining. But I was after password cracking I guess, with grphic cards and hashcat. Then, I think I come back to the subject of mining back in 2016 or so and finally I started directly interacting with Bitcoin in 2018. I've been learning as much as possible since there, and HODL'ing mostly!

[Franctoshi]

I can't forget this life changing opportunity of mine during March of 2016 when my friend first told about Bitcoin and what is was meant for, at first I didn't believe in Bitcoin Until 2017 when I fully developed much interest and time for Bitcoin and did more research on the internet and YouTube played a major role in the discovery and knowledge about my Bitcoin Journey today.

[olib123]

I can't really remember but the chances are I probably heard about it on a forum where I used to hang out all the time. Then I googled it and bam bitocintalk.org appeared as the first result and I am here since then. There was some price action going on at that time and people were talking about it a lot. I guess BTC owes its popularity to its volatility. It goes up, it is news, it goes down it is news. You just can't escape it.

[haasanjui]

Once upon a time I was worried that where i have to invest my fund then my cousin told me to invest in Bitcoin I was shocked and asked that what is it? Then he told me about Crypto Currency and Then i tried to learn more about crypto on online webs and invested in Crypto Currency. That was my begining story in crypto field.

[Ultegra134]

That's a long time ago, I don't remember how exactly I got involved in Bitcoin, but it was somewhere between 2013-2014. I was young and dumb back then, around 14-15 years old at max, with absolutely zero knowledge about cryptocurrencies. I was slowly introduced via Bitcoin faucets, gathering what seemed worthless bits back then, only to be proven wrong a few years later.

I'm on the forum since 2014, I was ignorant back then, and as an underage person, didn't have access to Bitcoin markets. I was lucky enough that some of the BTC acquired back then, was saved till now.

[Western_Boris]

Don't remember the years but first heard about it online when it was only some cents or dollars. Next time heard about it when it was 300 USD and I remember thinking first time if I should buy it but was too afraid "because it had gone up so much recently". Checked it few times during the following  years and felt the same way. Then 2020 read about news that Paypal is thinking about adapting Bitcoin to its wallet and understood that if they do that, it will make Bitcoins price grow so I bought my first sats and started to learn about it. Following months BTC rose quickly so kept buying more, kept educating myself more about it and nowdays I am all in and working in a company which accepts Bitcoin as a payment.

[YOSHIE]

So how about you, when and how did you discover bitcoin?

I also have a memory like you, it's not clear when and where I found Bitcoin, maybe if I trace back it took 1-2 days, if the year maybe remember, around 2016.

What were your initial thoughts?

I was thinking at that time, how to find as many Bitcoins as possible.

Did you think negatively of it at first discovery and change your mind, or did you always think it was a great idea?

Negative thinking of course, feels like believe it or not, but my mind changed after accepting the fact that Bitcoin is an asset and real in fiat form, Of course, one year later the idea arose that Bitcoin could be the dream of everyone in this world, to increase assets in the form of trading and investment, I have to do something for the future.

[uelque]

I have never forgotten the day I discovered bitcoin. Because during that time I'm just a normal student struggling financially to support my studies and daily needs. I remember I was too broke and was looking for an online jobs where I can earn even a small amount of profit. And then discovered a friend of mine was doing this bitcoin stuff that allows him to become financially stable. And so I ask him to teach me, and the story starts there. So basically, I discovered bitcoin because of only wanting to support my financial needs.

And then, I think 6 months after knowing and being familiar to bitcoin and crytocurrency, I was able to support my self financially. So yeah, bitcoin changed my life, and I owe everything I own now to bitcoin. I always knew that bitcoin is something that is why I will always be here.

[zaesvlas]

I must say right away that it would be necessary to study bitcoin before investing money in it. It will still help you save money.

[LogitechMouse]

So how about you, when and how did you discover bitcoin? What were your initial thoughts?  Did you think negatively of it at first discovery and change your mind, or did you always think it was a great idea?

I discovered Bitcoin thru my friend last 2017. He introduced me to this forum and I created an account. I have no idea about Bitcoin at that time whatsoever but he said that I can get information here so I created an account, did spend some time reading some long posts that really helped me and aside from that I did some thorough research on the internet. I'm spending hours watching documentaries regarding Bitcoin etc.

Initial thoughts?? Hmmmm, it didn't came to a point that I thought that Bitcoin is a scam. I just think at that time is that Bitcoin = money that is why I learned about it at least the basics so that there is somebody that will guide me.

Like I said, I didn't think that Bitcoin is a scam or any negative thoughts about it. I just know that it is money that is why I tried to learn it. Learned something through the years and now here I am holding some Bitcoin (though it wasn't that huge). Still grateful for my friend and for all the users who are helping other users .

[evilgreed]

               I have somewhat the same problem with the op by not being able to remember when or how I really did discover crypto currencies. One thing I do remember though is that I had strong negative thoughts about it because I heard it was being used by criminals and was in a way against the government. Which js what you would expect for someone who doesn't know anything about bitcoin yet specially techy stuff. But I also remember that what truly made me know of crypto currencies is my friend and that Is when I really started reading more and understanding more about bitcoin and other altcoins. An estimation I have for when I discovered bitcoin is within 2014-2015. While this about this forum late 2016 maybe.

[chikading2016]

I discover bitcoin on year 2017 because of the bounty hunting, my friend told me to do bounty hunting because it has a big profit that time, at first it is really hard to understand because i dont know anything about bitcoin or altcoins until such time that i slowly understand it because i read some message and qoutes  and also make a research if there is something that i hardly understand in this furom,thanks to my friend for introducing or sharing his knowledge about crypto.