How do you get Bitcoin? (Poll)

[GeorgeJohn]

It's obvious that most of people who is here did not use their personal money to purchase bitcoin rather they obtained their first bitcoin through a signature campaign in the service board of bitcointalk, and some other people may likely obtain their first time bitcoin through investment, but I know that during the time bitcoin was first established their was an airdrop in which someone can also obtain bitcoin and I don't that time people have known bitcoin as they know bitcoin today, but in summary the most ways people received bitcoin is through promoting a particular signature brand here.

Even the old members or bitcoin enthusiast where bitcoin existed for a few years got their bitcoin from faucets that's why people joined signature campaign and other bounty campaigns to earn bitcoin when people can no longer get bitcoin from faucets. Honestly, the first crypto I got is ethereum and it is also the first crypto I bought using my own money although it's not much amount of eth since I bought it just to use it for transaction fees.

That's why I said technically most of the people who is here obtain their first cryptocurrency through this two ways we made mentioned, and it's there most of us started summoning the courage to purchase cryptocurrency of any kind, neither by airdrop as I said before or signature campaign as I also portrayed, so is few persons that used their hard earned money to purchase neither bitcoin or Ethereum or any other alternative coins to be precised, for what I have observed and earned bitcoin for years I have joined here That's what gives me confidence to purchase bitcoin and any coins as I feel like.

[nakamura12]

That's why I said technically most of the people who is here obtain their first cryptocurrency through this two ways we made mentioned, and it's there most of us started summoning the courage to purchase cryptocurrency of any kind, neither by airdrop as I said before or signature campaign as I also portrayed, so is few persons that used their hard earned money to purchase neither bitcoin or Ethereum or any other alternative coins to be precised, for what I have observed and earned bitcoin for years I have joined here That's what gives me confidence to purchase bitcoin and any coins as I feel like.

I understand your point and what I mean or my point is that people would still get bitcoin if faucets still give same about as before or even a portion of the bitcoin that people got on faucet before when it is still a trend. I understand that if faucets give same amount if bitcoin as before then they would be bankrupt to this day that's why earning bitcoin from faucets to this day is time consuming and would only get very small amount of bitcoin.

[vjudeu]

There are many ways:

1. Faucets, giveaways, and other "free" coins. This is how I started. I guess I filled more captchas, than I should.
2. Buy them. This is how I got >90% of my coins.
3. Earn them. Well, some time ago I agreed to wear a paid signature.
4. Mine them. Not directly, but by mining and selling altcoins. Maybe in the future, it would be possible to directly mine millisatoshis (or even smaller units) on my CPU, and to contribute to the total hashrate, by putting a single drop in the ocean of miners.
5. Gamble them. Sure, I also did that. I got something around 1% of all my coins through gambling, but I guess it is mostly connected to faucets and giveaways. However, gambling is also a nice way of changing your coin amounts, if you need that, and rounding it up or down, depending if you win or lose. Usually, I gamble something around a transaction fee, and get either a "free" transaction, when my fees are paid by casinos, or "2x fee", if I lose.
6. Employment. I thought about it, and even tried it sometimes, but it is hard, to get it right. I am still far away from leaving my current job, paid in fiat, or from being paid directly in BTC. Maybe in the future.
7. Puzzles. There are addresses with very weak keys (for example private key equal to one). There are coins, signed with SIGHASH_NONE. Many coins are flying around, and sometimes you can even get them, without any signatures: https://mempool.space/address/bc1qft5p2uhsdcdc3l2ua4ap5qqfg4pjaqlp250x7us7a8qqhrxrxfsq2gp3gp

So, I guess if I bought most of my coins, then this is what I should tick in the poll.

[adaseb]

I think the majority of mine was mining altcoins and converting those to bitcoin and holding that bitcoin. I remember during the 2017 alt coin rally I would mine Ethereum and would buy many small/mid cap type of alt coins and during the pop, I sold all of them for Bitcoin.

The issue was that even though the alt coins topped, so did bitcoin. However bitcoin dropped 80% and I held most of it, if I held those altcoins they went down 99% and many are gone today. It was basically pure luck, back then you could buy 10 different alts and they would 2-3x easily, maybe 1 or 2 didnt rally and you sold at a small loss, however back in mid 2017, you could buy literally anything and you would make money. Basically there were people who bought every single coins on Poloniex and made money on most of them.

[Saint-loup]

What is surprising(or not) is that you didn't mention "trading" in your poll or even "lending" or "investments". LOL does it mean you don't think people could make susbstantial profits in cryptos by trading on exchanges, investing them in ICO or in lending products? Well, it's true that we don't hear about this kind of guys very often to be honest, but I'm sure they exist somewhere.

That is a good one, I suppose investments/trading could fall under Earn them

Yes, I agree with you it could fall under the "Earn them" option. But finally that's the second highest voted response. And I guess many people receiving Bitcoins from bounties chose this option instead of Employment(which hasn't received any votes so far) while it's a real part-time job for many people here, especially for people coming from poor countries. So in the next poll, it would interesting to offer an answer choice especially for bounties(including campaign signature), another for trading and another one for investments IMO.  

[Zanab247]

I can still remember, how I earned my first BTC from signature campaign in the forum and I was very happy because i wish to hodl BTC when I was introduced to BTC investment, but the money was not there for me to use the simple way, which is buy BTC with money and hodl. I know there are some other ways you can use to hodl BTC, but they are not easy like the way you own your money to buy BTC without waiting for anyone before you can buy, and if you think about mining, it use to consumed a lot of data and energy before you can earn BTC from the mining before you can hodl BTC, which many people prefer to use money to buy BTC and hodl than depending on mining before they can hodl BTC.

There are some companies, that pay their employees with BTC because BTC is legalized in the country and their employees prefer BTC than Fiat money in the country, which many people can use that opportunity to hodl BTC.

[Issa56]

I'm interested in how most forum members receive their Bitcoins. We have got most of ours over the years with faucets, earning sites and also payments for various gigs.

What about you?

I have just one way of receiving bitcoin, which is through a forum signature, but I have two ways of accumulating bitcoin, by saving some bitcoin, which I receive from the forum here, and by buying after receiving payment from the physical job, which I have. There are some people who have online jobs that pay them in bitcoin, and some people have physical shops that accept bitcoin as a payment method, so those are some ways that I know that some people are always using to get bitcoin.
 
In your polls I wanted to choose BUYING THEM, and EARN THEM, but I can only choose one among the two.

[XtremeMed]

I get my first btc by search in old and non used wallets