How did you know about Bitcoin and Bitcointalk?

[joker_josue]

I don't know... it was 10 years ago that I entered the forum for the first time. 

Probably the result of some Google research to get more information about Bitcoin. What I do know is that I registered as soon as I realized that the forum was the main information center about Bitcoin. This must have happened the first time I entered the forum.

I must have heard about Bitcoin in 2010-2011, although I found the idea interesting, I simply followed suit! ^{(How stupid!)} At the beginning of 2013 I found an article about Bitcoin and the appreciation that had already occurred since its creation, and how people could mine and obtain some coins. And that's how I entered the world of Bitcoin.

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[mindrust]

I am not sure. Knowing me, I probably typed "bitcoin" (like "the fuck is this shit and where can i get sum") on google and google returned this website. It is because of that I joined here in late 2013. Most OG's usually hang on underground news portals like 4chan as OP mentioned so they knew about bitcoin before the crowd. By the time it was on google, the masses started to learn about it. I remember the day when bitcoin crashed to $100 like it happened yesterday. Then it went to $1000. Mt.Gox was huge, btc-e was the second big. poloniex, cryptsy had some serious fans too. All dead now. (is poloniex alive? probably ded)

[taufik123]

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I must have heard about Bitcoin in 2010-2011, although I found the idea interesting, I simply followed suit! ^{(How stupid!)} At the beginning of 2013 I found an article about Bitcoin and the appreciation that had already occurred since its creation, and how people could mine and obtain some coins. And that's how I entered the world of Bitcoin.

It was a very opportune time and a year after Bitcoin was released by Satoshi on January 3, 2009 and then Bitcointalk was launched on November 22, 2009.
You might be able to buy a lot of Bitcoin back then and forget that you could buy it, LOL.

Even you are talking about mining which will certainly lead to how to earn a lot of Bitcoins easily with a computer or mining device created.

I got to know all this in 2016, it was also quite early even though I had a lot of Bitcoin through this forum and sold it when ATH in late 2017.
But you're very lucky to be at the beginning and know it all.

[joker_josue]

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I must have heard about Bitcoin in 2010-2011, although I found the idea interesting, I simply followed suit! ^{(How stupid!)} At the beginning of 2013 I found an article about Bitcoin and the appreciation that had already occurred since its creation, and how people could mine and obtain some coins. And that's how I entered the world of Bitcoin.

It was a very opportune time and a year after Bitcoin was released by Satoshi on January 3, 2009 and then Bitcointalk was launched on November 22, 2009.
You might be able to buy a lot of Bitcoin back then and forget that you could buy it, LOL.

Even you are talking about mining which will certainly lead to how to earn a lot of Bitcoins easily with a computer or mining device created.

I got to know all this in 2016, it was also quite early even though I had a lot of Bitcoin through this forum and sold it when ATH in late 2017.
But you're very lucky to be at the beginning and know it all.

The thing is, I didn't get to enjoy it, which was a shame.

In 2010-2011, when I heard about Bitcoin, I found the idea interesting, but I didn't explore it so I didn't buy it or mine it.
In 2013 it was different, I started to explore the Bitcoin universe more, and then I started mining with a GPU. But, at the time, the first ASICs were appearing, and after a few months I ended up stopping mining. That was perhaps my biggest mistake, I should have invested in mining at the time. So basically I ended up not having taken advantage of that time.

I'm not rich because of BTC, but I can tell that practically all the bitcoin I have was the result of this mining in 2013. I bought very little BTC at the time.

[Mr.suevie]

I think I have seen similar topic here which I also involved in the discussion but it won't hurt to highlight mine first encounter again. Well for me it was from a bad view because Bitcoin was all the rave in my locality and for some reason many people despised it because of the massive flow ponzi scheme around that particular period and how I came to be involved in Bitcoin itself is as  of a miracle because with all the hate and wrong perception I had, I never taught that one day I would be the one receiving Bitcoin as a means of payment. A close friend of mine then sat me down and lectured me and change my whole view about the trending technology and since installed the curiosity in me it was only a matter of time that I became eager to find out more of which he directed me to this community to learn first hand for myself.

[libert19]

I've seen such topic before, I'm gonna repeat my answer. Bitcoin — from forum called ethicalhavoc, it was being discussed in shoutbox. Bitcointalk — I was searching for Bitcoin stuff, and Google search brought me here.

[Smartvirus]

In either case as mentioned, it’s all news but, mine wasn’t entirely news though

In the first instance;
When I first heard of Bitcoin as a term or some project out there, it was through a Ponzi scheme of which, it was outlined as some of the payment media. Yeah, I had those experience with ponzi and that’s in the wind now that I know better but, they actually mentioned Bitcoin to me for a first time.

Unfortunately, I didn’t know what these Bitcoin was, never cared to research on it as I centered my values on fiat which is more family, traditional and values are already know including it’s usability. Not until later after the crash of Ponzi schemes, the innovation later came as a briefing from a friend. The rest is history.

As per Bitcointalk;
I was introduced. There wasn’t an Dejavu about it but then, a personal reorientation followed and I try to better myself every other day.

[348Judah]

I've been hearing about bitcoin for some time but never have any interest in it due to many times I've heard about digital investments scams and haven being one of the victim to some of these online scam, so i don't like hearing about anything that has to do with digital currency or Investment because my believe then was scam, until a friend invited me to join bitcointalk and encourage me to Invest before i took courage to start at least from somewhere and Invested little on bitcoin.

[Lafu]

Now, two questions for you.

• How did you know about Bitcoin? From good news or from bad news?
• How did you know about Bitcointalk?
  
  • Previously, I thought of a discussion about the first question but later I thought about the second question and it's possible to combine them in one topic. Then I decided to make this thread in Meta than in Bitcoin Discussion board.

About the second question " How did you know about Bitcointalk " there was a similar thread made from DdmrDdmr  Poll - How did you find out about Bitcointalk?
But it was a Poll and is locked now , there are a lot stories where you can see and read how Users found there way to Bitcointalk.

For me personal i found my way to the Forum from a friend 10 years ago but without registering and mostly reading stuff about mining and how all works.
About Bitcoin also from my friend and started mining Bitcoin with GPU without any knowledge 11 or 12 years ago.

[Hispo]

I learnt about Bitcoin because of bad news, but those were not bad new about the Bitcoin price or the Bitcoin ecosystem. It was when here in my country some payment method which people used to use to conduct purchases using United States Dollars got completely restricted and people would not be able to move their move anymore. It made me think about the possibility of using Bitcoin because I had heard it was a decentralized solution to hold value and I did not have to worry about it shutting down or checking changes in the terms of service, so I think it was perfect to me to try. Here we have problems with the government, to the point no one with a good memory would dare to trust their United States dollars to banks owned by the State.

So when my Bitcoin journey started I was mostly on Reddit, until someone out of the blue mentioned this forum and the fact its founder was satoshi himself, so I felt like creating my account here. I believe that from the beginning of the use of my first wallet until the creation of my account in the forum less than 4 months happened. Since I started to participate here I have learnt a lot and all of it has helped me to be more difficult to fall victim of scams.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I know I've written this at least once, but I discovered bitcoin first from some kind of news reports, and that might have been back in 2012-13.  I figured it was a total scam, something along the lines of the other digital kinds of money like Flooz (that Whoopee Goldberg promoted back in the late 90s/early 2000s).  Then in 2014 I kept doing searches for bitcoin and most of the results linked to bitcointalk, so I bookmarked a page.  Mostly I read stuff that dealt with all the scams that were going on at the time--and I still didn't understand the fundamental difference between the centralized digital money stuff and bitcoin, so I remained ignorant.

Then, after seeing all the ridiculous shitposts I figured I needed a place to troll, and so I registered in 2015.  That was my intention, anyway.  I soon realized after doing some deeper reading that bitcoin was way different than anything that came before it, and after a while the trolling I planned to do turned into becoming involved in the community and learning a hell of a lot more about bitcoin than I had previously.

And wouldn't you know?  I stuck around and have been pretty active since then.  The scams keep happening, but the forum and bitcoin haven't changed much.  Cheers to that!

[LogitechMouse]

Now, two questions for you.

• How did you know about Bitcoin? From good news or from bad news?

Neither good news nor bad news.

My friend introduced me to both Bitcoin. He didn't say that much about the information about it, so I did some research about both of them and got interested in it. At that time, I had just graduated from college as well, and I didn't have anything to do so I spent my time back then watching documentaries, reading articles online, etc. etc. I can't forget the fact that you can get Bitcoins thru faucets, and that's free. I mean just a few clicks and you will get satoshis already. If only I knew back then that Bitcoin would become this huge, I must've kept all those Bitcoins that I got for free. No regret on my decisions though.

Now, two questions for you.

• How did you know about Bitcointalk?
  

The forum has been introduced by my friends in my community. He said that the platform was a place where I could learn about Bitcoin aside from YouTube, and since I'm kind of curious about what Bitcoin is, I did a quick research about Bitcoin, and I got hooked up with the idea of it, and decided to register in this forum. Of course, I will consider myself a hypocrite if I do not say the fact that you can earn money here while learning. I mean who doesn't want money right? You are learning here, but at the same time, you are earning as well, I just graduated from college at that time, so I need to learn how to make money by myself.

Overall, Bitcointalk has been a great platform for me not only because you can get much information here with regards to Bitcoin, and cryptocurrency in general, but also because it helped me become better at speaking English. By interacting with other users here, I learned how to be more effective in interacting using the English language.

[wallet4bitcoin]

Beyond explanation of how the bitcoin forum was located byt members, I think we should consider it a data to analyse the channel thorugh which marketing can be achieved, for the marketing gurus in the house.

It is a pointer as to where to channel energy in the marketing of products. This is just getting started, when the more comments drops in, we will clearly understand the very essence of this particuar thread and its relevance to marketers.

[Etranger]

Now, two questions for you.
How did you know about Bitcoin? From good news or from bad news?
How did you know about Bitcointalk?

My answers to both questions will be the following: I have known about Bitcoin from my university mate, who told be about existence of digital money. I was interested in this idea, and asked where I can learn more about this. That's when he recommended me to take a look on this forum. At first I was just reading some topics as a guest, because I didn't feel any confidence to write something here. But when I started to dig more and more, a lot of questions arose in my head, and finally I created an account and started to communicate. It was a very foreseeing and right decision for me.

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Beyond explanation of how the bitcoin forum was located byt members, I think we should consider it a data to analyse the channel thorugh which marketing can be achieved, for the marketing gurus in the house.

It is a pointer as to where to channel energy in the marketing of products. This is just getting started, when the more comments drops in, we will clearly understand the very essence of this particuar thread and its relevance to marketers.

@wallet4bitcoin, I have a question for you (if you read anything here), did you notice that you received the first warning for spam and burst posting? Check the spreadsheet from the Bitvest signature campaign and the manager's note under your name.
I see that you are still quite aggressive in filling the quota of posts and you are very close to being marked as a spammer.

[PX-Z]

I learnt bitcoin from researching on how i can earn money online when i entered college and got a free wifi establishment so free internet all the way. Facebook groups are like good forums back there with full discussions of certain niche. Someone mentioned there about bitcointalk, still related to earn. But im so doubtful that it takes me almost a year i registered here.
In the simple words i go here because of profit i'll get . But in the long run i even learned technicalities, financial literacy, many more.

[Samlucky O]

I have heard about Bitcoin long time ago but don't know how it function or what it is, not ontill something like 2020-2021 when bitcoin jumped to $20k. I could hear my fellow colleagues complaining of not holding bitcoin, that now people who held it are now millionaire. Now they will have to continue there industrial struggle with anger and sadnesses. Then I decided to make a research about it since nobody could explain to me what is Bitcoin.

I went to YouTube and downloaded some videos and study alot about it. And even went as far as downloading trust wallet, and ask some of my friends on how to buy coin and they told me how to do it. And I was able to recieve my first coin was babyshiba inu. And after I lernt many things about Bitcoin. This is the prove of my first shitcoin


Them for bitcointalk I was introduced by my cousin who has been here for long, immediately he told me I grabbed the opportunity because I have Been looking for a way to know more about bitcoin and from this platform I was able to recieve my first bitcoin through signature campaign.

[FinneysTrueVision]

Bitcointalk comes up a lot in search engines when you are looking up topics related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. There are many services which have their own thread in the forum so whenever you are looking for the answer to a problem it often leads to Bitcointalk. For most of my time I have been a lurker but eventually I saw there was some campaigns accepting low rank users so I became more active because I wanted to earn some BTC for discussing subjects I was interested in.

[tread93]

I learned about bitcoin a few times before it got big and of course I wish that my judgement had not been clouded or that I wasn't completely focused in my studies the second time that I heard about it because maybe by some chance I would have still had the keys to its existence. The first time someone physically got between me and purchasing BTC, the second time I was in my college library studying when a facebook notification popped up with one of my classmates linking an article that I dismissed at the time. I later learned of the forum from a buddy I met on IG that had a similar interest in collectibles.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Long story but I was told about BTC by a Greek poker player I knew in RL. He told me to buy just one and to hold it for 20 years, that it was the future of money. I thought he was full of BS and ignored the advice. In 2014 I started to hear about it more so did a bunch of research. I bought my first coin in 2014 but I didn’t just buy one. I kept buying and buying and buying, I got obsessed and didn’t stop.

At some point I was massively down on what I’d put in but I didn’t care, I just kept buying. I found this forum in 2014 just by browsing Google, it gave me so much knowledge, reading about BTC and getting bits of information from well versed people here. This forum gave me the push to learn more and keep buying.

Firstly I owe that guy my life, he urged me to buy BTC and it was the best thing I ever did and continue to do.
BTC has done more for me than I ever imagined, given me opportunities that I never would have had in my previous life. Secondly this forum is amazing, I have met friends for life from here. As a newbie you can learn so much here. I have learnt more from bitcointalk.org than any website, book or dumb online influencer.