How did you come to know bitcoin?

[Yatsan]

Saw it in an advertisment while browsing. Then I've asked my friends about it and it happened that one of them is interested to it. Afterwards, we both read articles about Bitcoin and here we are now, still exploring this industry. I think same thing goes with the majority of people in this forum; someone told them about Bitcoin or you happened to come across this industry and chose to share it with your friends.

I think I'm too bored to answer this question, because I'm going to answer the same thing as before.
and many questions are similar to this and will be answered similar to the previous answers, it's better to make or tell and answer like your question, because it will be more interesting and there will be discussions and suggestions for you and everyone.

excuse me.

Yes, it would be more interesting if OP told about his first bitcoin investment to make the story more interesting. But given the current market situation, such questions also help people be more motivated or engaged. The topic, it's too old for you, but I believe a lot of newbies haven't seen it before. It won't be boring if you can inspire new market entrants here.

Been asked indeed, countless times. But that's indeed true. If you are struggling into something; might as well check why and where did you start in the first place to somehow boost you up on times of market downfall, perhaps in this industry. There are for sure people who thinks of giving up at this moment, but if they'd realize how long did they been into on this industry, this might help them tho'.

[taufik123]

It's too often to answer thread questions like this, but it doesn't matter if you want to share my first experience with bitcoin. 

The experience of getting to know Bitcoin started with knowing this forum from a good friend of mine. He asked me to create an account on Bitcointalk and do some airdrop tasks. 

initially did not understand about bitcoin being the main coin.  but since the significant increase in bitcoin prices in 2016-2017 I started to enter and study bitcoin on this forum, as well as make some investments. 

Bitcoin was my first digital investment and it has long term benefits.  created the first bitcoin wallet on blockchain.com.

[Chucksmark]

Hi all,friends
I think that this question will seem very interesting,because the story of acquaintance and first investment in bitcoin will never be forgotten
Someone found out from friends,someone read on the internet,and someone may be standing at the birth of the cryptocurrency itself
Share your stories my friends,because each story is unique and interesting

I heard about Bitcoin in 2014 during my undergraduate years at a departmental gathering unfortunately for me I didn't have enough fund to invest then, even when I know it has a huge potential, one of my friend who invested then is now a millionaire in my country I wish I started earlier

[Victorik]

I heard of Bitcoin in 2018, a friend of mine was trying to convince me to invest in it, but I didn't see it as something that has a future then. You won't blame me much because I had invested in MMM and some other pyramid scheme the  but ended up losing my funds, so I saw it as another pyramid scheme. But after many persuasion from my friend, I decided to invest a little, and that's how the journey began for me.

[DeathAngel]

I heard about bitcoin on 4chan at first. That place can be full of weirdos so at first I didn’t buy which was possibly to my own detriment.

I continued to hear about bitcoin in other places so I thought why not. It turned out to be a very good investment for me. I found this forum in 2015 also which has helped a lot in my journey.

[DaNNy001]

The news about bitcoin was probably the most trending talk during the year of 2020 in my locality. after bitcoin reached an ATH. everyone around me was just talking about bitcoin but i never actually developed any interest not until last year when a friend of properly put me through on the whole bitcoin and crypto ecosystem and he referred me to join this forum for more proper and exclusive knowledge on bitcoin and so far it has proved reliable. So i would say i was expose to bitcoin by a friend.

[landheer]

At first I knew bitcoin, because I saw my neighbor suddenly become rich, at that time I was curious why he, a person who had nothing to become rich, until one day I finally decided to meet him and finally he explained, that he became rich because invest bitcoin, and that's when I was introduced by him about bitcoin. and finally I was interested in bitcoin and until finally I decided to invest in bitcoin.

[Jatiluhung]

I learned about Bitcoin in 2010, my friend who was working as a software developer at a time told me about some "magic internet money". I didn't pay attention and just lived on. In 2011 I accidentally found this forum and realized Bitcoin has huge potential. I bought some and here I am 12 years later still HODLing.  

P.S. You're probably checking my registration date - yes I had a different account back then. 

extraordinary. means you are one of those who has been in bitcoin for a long time. I think your experience will definitely keep you psychologically awake in holding bitcoin.

I'm still new to bitcoin in 2022. Introduced by a friend who actually I just knew my friend at that time.
and because of my lack of experience, sometimes I still feel panic when I see bitcoin prices fall. my panic is not wanting to sell the bitcoins that have been bought. But I'm always afraid of falling behind in making purchases. psychologically I am still often in a hurry.
and I want to ask. Does over time and as experience increases, can we become more psychologically in control of bitcoin investment?

[Chrlie95]

There was a hype for deep web like 7-8 years ago and people would sell stuff or services without being tracked with bitcoin. I think the price was around 400 usd. I didn't trust to buy any bitcoin for the time being and now we're here  Then, I guess I entered the blockchain thing when BTC was around 7k

[fennic]

Hi all,friends
I think that this question will seem very interesting,because the story of acquaintance and first investment in bitcoin will never be forgotten
Someone found out from friends,someone read on the internet,and someone may be standing at the birth of the cryptocurrency itself
Share your stories my friends,because each story is unique and interesting

Hi bro this thread is repeated for many times and many people have asked same but I Will say that I first contact led with Bitcoin when I was in 2017 as I heard that Bitcoin is now superpassing Gold and that was very astonishing and that's caught my attention too. So I will say that later on worked in may websites and do many tasks. And I go bankrupted also and that was very very challenging to me. But Now I am in a good state and in future I might be able to do something great.

[Rruchi man]

Hi all,friends
I think that this question will seem very interesting,because the story of acquaintance and first investment in bitcoin will never be forgotten
Someone found out from friends,someone read on the internet,and someone may be standing at the birth of the cryptocurrency itself
Share your stories my friends, because each story is unique and interesting

I first came to know about bitcoins from a friend who introduced me to a Ponzi Scheme that their pyramid scheme was centered on gathering bitcoins for ourselves (I have shared this story a couple of times here). I didn't know that bitcoins will be very valuable in the future and so I did not really make moves to even move the bitcoins I had gotten out of their platform to a personal wallet. I lost all the bitcoins I was able to get via the pyramid scheme but I gained an interest in finding out more about these bitcoins that I had lost. That is how I got to know more about bitcoins.

[Casdinyard]

I've known about it as early as 2014, through some ads on a favorite site I used to frequent, but I only ever had an honest interaction with it through this forum, and ever since then I've grown more and more fascinated with the wonders of bitcoin, which is mostly topped by my astonishment of how profitable it could be, and so I started small, joined bounty and contest programs thst lead to me owning a couple other cryptos which ultimately helped me build a substantial amount of wealth both within and outside the crypto space. I would say crypto is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

[coupable]

That was in late 2013 when a friend who lives in Europe sent me bitcoin mining machines and asked me to operate them because the cost of electricity in our country is much lower than in Europe and there is no censorship, in addition to that no one in my small town knew anything about bitcoin at that time.
I kept watching the work of these machines without understanding anything, and curiosity prompted me to search for more details about what their work is and how my friend earns money through them, and things remained vague to me until the beginning of 2015 when I stumbled upon the Bitcointalk forum by chance where I found all the information I was looking for And here I am, still an active member for seven years.

[yangcarl]

At first I knew bitcoin, because I saw my neighbor suddenly become rich, at that time I was curious why he, a person who had nothing to become rich, until one day I finally decided to meet him and finally he explained, that he became rich because invest bitcoin, and that's when I was introduced by him about bitcoin. and finally I was interested in bitcoin and until finally I decided to invest in bitcoin.

I learned about Bitcoin from my landlord. At the beginning, I thought it was very strange. My landlord didn’t have to work and said he was mining at home. Slowly I learned what Bitcoin is. Then I asked how to make money? At the beginning, the electricity bills were increasing, and I thought he would not make money.

[yudi09]

Share your stories my friends,because each story is unique and interesting

Through this forum we started reading and finding out about Bitcoin.
It sounded strange at first when some friends mentioned the phrase Bitcoin. They look serious with laptops that make curiosity even greater, it turns out that they are discussing on the forum and writing some things about the project to share with social media accounts.

A few moments after that they ate because one of the projects they participated in paid for the campaign results.
That's where I first signed up for an account and it turned out to be bigger than what I saw. I discovered a much more effective concept of financial transactions here.

[Pandji02]

I heard about it about 10 years for the first time. I think when Blizzard was paying in Bitcoin for the players in the Starcraft tournament. Too bad I haven't thought about buying it back then...

[borovichok]

I heard about it about 10 years for the first time. I think when Blizzard was paying in Bitcoin for the players in the Starcraft tournament. Too bad I haven't thought about buying it back then...

Gaining full knowledge about bitcoin in the past decade would have been what one will depend his or her live on, it's worth striving hard for. However, most of us were ignorant about this solid information about bitcoin and didn't give it a trial. Although some didn't got the right information about it and were too scared to take a step in the space. Cryptocurrency was easy then with buying altcoins, and waiting for it to shoot to the moon with massive profits from them. Knowing about bitcoin few years ago was actually one of the good news that everyone wishes they got.

[Newlifebtc]

You said that many people come to know Bitcoin true introduction by other people because I believe that knowing Bitcoin, is from introduction by informing another people how bitcoin is and another way around some people know bitcoin true online internet social media's that is house of people know about bitcoin so I believe that in this current time why people who don't know about bitcoin I interested over bitcoin is because of the increment value and the investment of it

[Cryptodebjoe]

I remember some time early last year every day I turn to the news either BBC or CNN I kept seeing BTC chart graph climbing upwards against the dollar I jokingly said to my friend that they say that it's age that goes up and never comes down but it's like BTC has equaled that record and we broke into laughter.... That's when I desired to learn more about it..... Though it hasn't been so rosy but I've learnt to hold and not throw all of my life investment on the line.... LoL

[Leviathan.007]

Hi all,friends
I think that this question will seem very interesting,because the story of acquaintance and first investment in bitcoin will never be forgotten
Someone found out from friends,someone read on the internet,and someone may be standing at the birth of the cryptocurrency itself
Share your stories my friends,because each story is unique and interesting

For me it's about a few years ago when the price of bitcoin was near 500 dollars, I remember for my birthday my girlfriend gave me a letter with a few words about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they work also she explained to me for a little bitcoin and the future of bitcoin and then she gave me access to a bitcoin wallet containing less than 100 dollars worth of bitcoin and that 100 dollar was the start point for my to start doing my own research about bitcoin, thanks to her and thanks to bitcoin I could earn money by investing and holding bitcoin and became independent.