when did you receive your first bitcoin?

[mk4]

Don't you just hate it when they keep your funds held for 180 days and you're just so helpless about it since their customer service is horrendous. I even tried to resubmit my valid ID, and they did not respond back to me.

They held my funds for 180 days then after the 180 days they just straight up said they're taking my funds because of "damages" lmao. All I did was buy/sell videogame items; I didn't even receive a single cashback on all my transactions lol.

[Wexnident]

A few months before the pandemic hit I guess? I was lightly touching trading back then (and suffered as a dumb kid with how fees work). I did know and touched about Bitcoin before (from a friend I knew back in HS) but it was only then that I really started handling it. I was lucky enough to avoid that massive pit that happened when the pandemic started but didn't foresee it coming back after that, so I lost out on a pretty big opportunity in terms of investment. It wasn't really helpful that I was a student back then, most of the side gigs I did that gave out money went out to be saved up to build up my PC (I had a pretty basic laptop back then), so the amount I had was minimal, so I couldn't risk it investing again what after that big dump that happened.

It was also helpful that our mobile wallet I use (coins.ph) finally had crypto conversion/crypto transaction (which was like an exchange, but much easier to access for someone ignorant like me back then I guess) which also pushed me to trying it out.

[AicecreaME]

January 2017, if I'm not mistaken. It was my first salary from a bounty that has signature campaign as well. I was so happy that time because all the sleepless nights finally paid off. Bitcoin's price way back then is so little compare to what we have now, that's why the amount in Bitcoin in every salary is big. I will never forget the feeling when I received my first Bitcoin, that's what keeps me going.

[LogitechMouse]

FAUCETS!!!!!!!!

Patiently waiting every minute, I'm opening more than 20 tabs in my google chrome browser 5 years ago and spending my time answering those captchas just to get a few satoshis. What did I do with the Satoshis that I earned? I put it into Eobot (a cloud mining website) and I purchased some mining power thru those Satoshis that I got. I'm just happy at that time knowing that I'm just starting to learn crypto and I'm earning some Satoshis for free. What I didn't know is that Eobot isn't profitable and all of my Satoshis are gone.

Right now, I'm not doing it anymore because I don't have the time to do it and I don't like it but I'm just happy that I earned Satoshis thru faucets.

[Jawhead999]

I get it from Freebitco.in since it's the oldest and popular Bitcoin faucet, if you google how to get Bitcoin in free, you will see someone include faucet as one of the way and recommend this site. But nowadays faucet is really worthless and doesn't worth anymore, I didn't even collect the faucet until the minimum requirement. Since I know it's wasting my time, I try to learn Bitcoin and then search a forum that related about it.

[Yatsan]

I've earned it not bit by bit way back 2018, wherein I manage to accumulate 1 Bitcoin but is now gone or sold early this year.  Most of my earnings before were from campaigns or projects paying tokens being released on their public sale. I'd say I made quite of a huge amount before which made me achieve such thing. Then this year, I diversified my assets to other profitable investments sucb as p2e's and nft's. And now I'm quite planning to invest in huge tokens of this industry if incase a recovery would occur for next year which I hope would happen. And if not, that's why I think major coins are the best ones to invest because risk of losing investments would be lessen in comparison to other tokens which are more volatile and are not having that much of demand.

[Mpamaegbu]

Now, I look back with nostalgia in respect to this thread question. I actually didn't buy the first Bitcoin (actually, sats) I got. It was something like a payment from user @lenny_ and that was barely four weeks I joined this forum. I didn't even know how to get out a wallet address and send 🤦. It was 0.001 BTC which was worth $1 at the time. I was genuinely overjoyed because of the first time experience. It was like winning a lottery for me. That same amount is worth over $16 today, despite the current falling market.

[Yawa2020]

Just like the comment above me, I did not buy my first Bitcoin. It came as a payment. Although I have no idea what Bitcoin is all about but have been hearing the word for a very long time now until recently when I became a Bitcoin owner. It's actually something to be proud of despite the unfavorable situation of market now.

[solehdavid]

when bitcoin was first released I heard about it for the first time while browsing websites I shouldn't have been on. i really wanted to buy it but I wasn't old enough to buy things on my own and I didn't know how to buy it. years later in 2017 i bought my first bitcoin. my god the price difference was unbelievable. i think not being able to buy it when i first saw it is what pushed me to buy bitcoin

[Bobrox]

Participated at Bounties campaign is the first time I received payment trough Bitcoin and if not mistake around 2017 where many potential bounties campaign I got payment almost 1 Bitcoin from joining bounties campaign. Actually Bitcoin have giving financial freedom for me and leaving my real job for active only with Bitcoin as investment way.

I have been several years with Bitcoin and altcoin investment, right now never have any ideas about quit from Bitcoin have give me more than my expectation, hope new year can received more Bitcoin and get better financial freedom with my Bitcoin assets holding have going drop right now.

[The Cryptovator]

It's hard to recall the exact dates. I remembered when Paid to click sites & revenue share sites were popular I have been using fiat like Perfect money & Payza. Then few friends suggest to use Bitcoin and I bought it. So after that have started using Bitcoin and am still now with Bitcoin. Yea altcoin become a Risker to invest in right now. A few altcoins even never recover the price even Bitcoin price recover. So Bitcoin is the right choice to invest in. Because we have seen many times Bitcoin repeat history. So once a time everything will be recovered.

[Adbitco]

Personally to me this forum is an eye opener to those who don't know much about cryptocurrency including me as well, formally i mostly engaged with altcoins but after my first experience during 2017 bear market i got to buckle up my shoes and changes my investment strategies then i began to acquire more bitcoin rather than altcoin. I purchase through Binance and after sometimes i began to receive bitcoin through sig campaign till date. I will advise you to pay less attention to altcoin rather use this medium to utilized the chances of your investment to hold more bitcoin.

[Moeda]

Though I have been investing in crypto since 2020, I have only focused on altcoins. However, since the beginning of the bear market and since joining this forum, I have seen reasons why I should be investing in bitcoin rather than altcoins. So, I would like to know what prompted you to purchase your first bitcoin?

If we look at the crypto data released by coinmarketcap, maybe there are currently thousands of crypto there. But we know about it all after we are in this forum, or already know crypto to the exchange stage.

But before we get detailed information about crypto, of course what the public is talking about is Bitcoin. I myself also know the term altcoin in this forum, previously I only knew Bitcoin. Before I was in this forum, I already knew about Bitcoin, and only Bitcoin, not with other crypto.

So when I want to invest in crypto, of course the main choice is Bitcoin. In addition to high prices being of particular interest, Bitcoin also always makes new breakthroughs. As long as I study crypto, there is no bullrun without starting with Bitcoin.