When and how did you discover Bitcoin?

[Blended@]

Hmmmm is a nice question,l hear about bitcoin just 2019 but before then people already have an inside knowledge on bitcoin investment, however an still learning more on bitcoin an l believe as time go on l will discover the secret of bitcoin

[Flexystar]

This was mostly when my work colleagues used to chatter about it a lot. So this was during the period 2013-14 when all this happened. Though I had some idea from the forum in earlier days but it was merely an on off situation for me and would just read it as casus fun thing. But things for me started kicking off when I heard it from my work colleagues and the way they started about it was just jaw dropping for me. You know the period when bitcoin first hiked a lot and shit like that. So this got me into crypto and then rest is just story everywhere.

[doomloop]

This was mostly when my work colleagues used to chatter about it a lot. So this was during the period 2013-14 when all this happened. Though I had some idea from the forum in earlier days but it was merely an on off situation for me and would just read it as casus fun thing. But things for me started kicking off when I heard it from my work colleagues and the way they started about it was just jaw dropping for me. You know the period when bitcoin first hiked a lot and shit like that. So this got me into crypto and then rest is just story everywhere.

Mine was also through a colleague in the office that I was working in. The colleague that told me about Bitcoin was a very close friend of mine and we were both interested in working online as a means of getting side income. He told me about Bitcoin and how he has been investing in it for some time, and I picked interest immediately and started investing in it as well, after I read about it and it seemed quite interesting to me.

And apart from the fact that it is a good investment, another thing that also attracted me was that I can use it for transaction to anywhere in the world, and it sort of made things easier for me, seemed like a cool technology. Bitcoin is really useful in so many ways.

[GiftedMAN]

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

[Quidat]

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

Even though its a bit late then you might have able to make big money or profits when you have just believe into your girlfriend just like also in my situation on which
my friend told me into those years too on which i had just ignored him because i do have impression that it might be some another sort of scam existing online
which i didnt really pay up too much attention where it do results out on regretting and having some stress but well its really just right to move on
and go ahead on the current situation since its not too late afterall.

[Slow death]

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

that means if you mined a lot and saved or had saved from that time until today then you would be another rich guy, in my case I entered this world in 2016 when the price was 500$, time really passed fast and price it has increased a lot since 2016. they are good, unforgettable memories.

Bitcoin is been notice to people differently and i believe most people will notice through Facebook and particularly the time of airdrop when bitcoin was not officially know by people, but now Bitcoin is known through the investment people run and make profit, so the profit is what spread the news of bitcoin everywhere, but from me i notice what is bitcoin through internet and that period i was wondering what is bitcoin until i made a research over bitcoin and confirmed it's a currency and it is a digital asset like Gold, then i began to develop much interest to know about it, and today Bitcoin is like what stand me today

youtube channels are the biggest promoters of cryptocurrencies in my opinion, channels with many followers are talking about bitcoin, altcoin and many things about the cryptocurrency market

[Rockstarguy]

I heard about bitcoin around 2015 from my friend but I didn't really understand  what it was all about,  what always comes to mind is maybe it one of the ponzi scheme because then that was the time ponzi was all over the corner. It was till 2019 I came to understand the real definition of bitcoin because of some persons that was around me who are into Bitcoin. Since then I embraced bitcoin fully and I see bitcoin as part of me.

[19Nov16]

The first time I heard about bitcoin was on CNBC TV in 2013, at that time the price of bitcoin reached more than $ 1000 and it became a hot topic on CNBC and almost every day always reported about the bitcoin phenomenon, unfortunately I didn't invest in bitcoin because CNBC also reported that many countries were against it. bitcoin because it is considered to be competing with fiat.

[Renampun]

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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?

As far as I remember there has been a topic like this but it's been sunk for a long time...

my friend who introduced Bitcoin to me, at first I felt it was just a hoax and it couldn't be big but he kept trying to change my thinking about Bitcoin and thank God until now I still really love bitcoin. Fear and doubt of course arise for someone who is hearing bitcoin for the first time, for those who want to introduce it to friends or relatives, don't give up.

[coolcoinz]

I got introduced by a friend who really didn't care much for Bitcoin just treated it like a novelty worth discussing. I went home and started doing research and at first wanted to mine, then I wanted to invest in cloud mining, we all know how that went... Later I started trading, altcoins first, then Bitcoin, then after some time I came to understand how it all works and saw the benefits of holding.

We are all thrown into this space and try to make sense of it, but it takes time. If your first thought after joining the space was to buy and hold bitcoin, you are among the lucky ones who used a shortcut while the rest of us had to run a whole marathon.

[goldkingcoiner]

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 don't either quite remember exactly when or how I discovered Bitcoin. But I am almost more than sure it had something to do more with seeing advice from 4chan on how to buy illicit substances on the newly formed darkweb. Of course I immediately became curious as to how exactly criminials could anonymously send each other money over the internet and law enforcement being completely helpless to stop them.

The idea of such a powerful anonymous monetary system that was completely out of any governments control was very interesting to me. So I studied it, learned more and more and now here I am with you guys.

[verita1]

I think it was in May 2016 when its price was at $500 that I saw a post on Twitter that talked about bitcoin and a good opportunity to invest in it. The publication struck me as very fantastic in addition to using a technology that I did not know. At that time I was looking for information on how to create a PayPal account to receive money from abroad and if I had investigated more about bitcoin, I would be telling another story.

[gabbie2010]

In a bid to earn extra income online that was how I discovered bitcoin that was early 2017, I worked by filling mrai which would be sold by our manager in this forum then, our manager paid us according to numbers of captcher we filled daily, I opened a blockchain wallet where all
my calculated daily earnings was paid into, it's was quite an interesting time, I learnt so many things about bitcoin with regards to how it is being transacted from a sender to a receiver or a buyer to a seller vise versa, I remembered all those time with nostalgia.

[henmark]

Almost everyone knows about Bitcoin these days. If you make use of social media or you go outside there is the possibility that you are going to hear someone talk about crypto currency or especially on social media. I got to know about cryptocurrency through Twitter. There are times that crypto currency usually trend especially when the price becomes bullish.

You would always see it trending on social media twitter and a lot of people would be talking about it. That was how I really got to know about it, though I also had to do my own research to have a full understanding on what it is really all about. I never really needed anybody’s support because there were lots of helpful articles that I could find online which helped me to create my own wallet and startup investment in cryptocurrency.

[stepwilli]

When googled there are already topics alike tgat are now in off-topic section, though it’s still good to reminisce how it all started when everybody still thinks bitcoin is a scam and only few were using it in my countru, some were told to be scammers as many didn’t believe in bitcoin when I started to know and study it wayback 2015-2016  though its nice I found this forum and know there are already people who are interested in it and proves it’s profitable.

That’s right. A lot of people in my country thought that cryptocurrency was another Ponzi scheme. Ponzi scheme is one of the scams that has trended in my country and it made a lot of people start being scared of investment. every little thing they see they always think that it is another Ponzi scheme and it has made people to distrust every sort of investment that there is.

So, when Bitcoin was still new and a lot of people were still getting to know what it is all about, they thought that it is something that also relates to Ponzi scheme. But after the started to see that Bitcoin has lasted for a long time and despite everything it continues to stay strong, now they are all starting to believe in it.

[Ebede]

saw it discussed in a tech forum in 2011. followed the threads for a bit thinking it was kinda crazy, but, well my kind of crazy as i was familiar with using GPUs to do computational work in folding@home and other distributed computing projects. so i spun up some GPUs to mine btc and here i am.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

Bitcoin news have come down well, Bitcoin is currency that everyone knows about it, if i have forgot how i notice what is bitcoin but i remember that somebody told me about bitcoin,  and that time the news is not as open as it is this time, and i started to check for it for internet, today Bitcoin is asset which everyone is ready to work towards it.

[molsewid]

Its difficult to remember the date exactly but it should be was end of 2016. I heard about bitcoin from one of my facebook friend. I saw a comment on a facebook post where a anonymous guy post to knock him if anyone want to income. I inboxed him and then he told me investment on random hyip websites with bitcoin or perfect money. Later he explained more about bitcoin and this is the story of mine

I first met and discover bitcoin way back 2017, I remember this was the year where bounty hunters are really earning great profit and I've been participating actively at it. This is also the time where I didn't expect that earning online is possible and this was also the time I can't fully decide to invest fully because this time it was questioned and somehow accused as scam. But even though I have some hesitation at that time I am still an active crypto user since then.

[blockman]

I discovered Bitcoin account in 2013.Maybe I didn't understand well then. If I had read well then, I would have had a different position today.From 2013 to 2017, I did not give such importance. When I should have given importance. I couldn't do anything from other people from this forum.I had many opportunities but could not take advantage of them.

A bitcoin account? Everyone does have the same thought if we knew bitcoin at the beginning and early days. But that's it, we have to move on and deal with its current state that it got a higher price now compared to years ago.
Where are we during those times in the past? We didn't give importance to it because the value was little and it's not yet that popular. That's common and people weren't curious back then, only a few.

[tbterryboy]

I have discovered it via checking weird forums back in the day. I was interested in making money online, and I was looking at places that allowed people to make money by solving captcha, or other methods, and it would pay peanuts as well so it was really hard to send that money via paypal or any other method since it was so little.

I saw an offer that said they are willing to pay with bitcoin and then the limit would be zero, that way you could earn 2 bucks and would still be able to withdraw. These type of jobs usually had like 50-100 dollars withdraw minimum so that most people would work a bit and leave. So seeing that, I checked bitcoin and found this forum and rest is history. This happened about 7-8 years ago.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

How I got to know about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general is kinda funny to me each time I remember, below is how it all played out.

I can't remember exactly when it was but I think it was in late 2015, there came this ponzi scheme popularly known as MMM at the time, it grew and become very popular in my country to the extend that almost every one on the street and corners of the country was into MMM, each country mostly in Africa and Asia had their own version of MMM, and there was also a global version which was referred to as MMM united.
The difference was that local MMMs pay users in their local currencies while MMM united which was the global version paid users in bitcoin and Ethereum.
Being from Nigeria, I was introduced to MMM Nigeria by @dalemat, by then, he was one of the leaders in MMM Nigeria due to having many referrals, so he had his own community on telegram, MMM Nigeria was paying members 30 percent monthly, but along the line, our then boss, @dalemat introduced us to MMM united which was paying 100 percent monthly in bitcoin and Ethereum, I signed up on MMM united and that was how my research about what bitcoin is began.

It didn't take long before MMM crashed in 2016, I and everyone else lost good amount of money, then our boss, @dalemat introduced a new crypto currency called Kuwait coin to us, the coin was in its ICO then, and it might be worthy of note that Kuwait coin was the reason I signed up on this great forum, I and every one else from dalemat's community invested in Kuwait coin but it ended up being a scam, we all lost our money including our boss, dalemat. Before Kuwait coin decide to run away with investors money, I've gotten familiar with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies available back then, so after the scam, dalemat then introduced us to day trading on poloniex exchange.

This was how I began my bitcoin/crypto journey and till date, am still here.