When did you get into crypto and how did it happen?

[AlphaBheta]

I recovered my old discord account today, and it brought back memories from 2020 when crypto and NFTs was still very crazy.

Those were times where I was doing basically nothing and making money off the calls from some of the groups and servers I was in.
It's a lot harder now, things are more exclusive now, and although if you're able to get in, they have amazing benefits. But yeah times have changed.


I don't want to directly mention the BGB holders group, I'd do it in the comments when someone here engages with it, or what do you think?

[TEXITcoin]

Hi, I am a total newbie to cryptocurrency and bought a single mine mid April 2025 with TEXITcoin after an invite to do so from a friend. Their vision, community and unique comp plan seems impressive. Since then I have been amazed at both the number of people I know as well as those that I randomly come across day to day, that have extensive backgrounds in crypto mining. It was like an invisible world to me. I met someone today who said that they made over $640,000 in Bitcoin last year and that they consistently make more out of trading than their own  company. He encouraged me to get involved in the trading side (BC) as well. My plan is to now also dabble in Bitcoin as I get better organized. Maybe I have gone about this back to front, but my intuition is that I can make the best of both worlds, and I like the thought of mining daily while up skilling in trading as I go...

[Frankolala]

The best advice that I would give to anyone is not to invest with more than what you can afford to lose when you're investing in shitcoin because they don't have any problem that they're solving and their price decreases overtime. This makes investors not to care much about these tokens. If you have extra funds use it to buy bitcoin and hodli for long term, you will not be disappointed.

[Firstfrost]

I recovered my old discord account today, and it brought back memories from 2020 when crypto and NFTs was still very crazy.

Those were times where I was doing basically nothing and making money off the calls from some of the groups and servers I was in.
It's a lot harder now, things are more exclusive now, and although if you're able to get in, they have amazing benefits. But yeah times have changed.


I don't want to directly mention the BGB holders group, I'd do it in the comments when someone here engages with it, or what do you think?

Good old days!! I also joined some Telegram group then through which i got updates especially airdrops but those groups are diluted now. By the way, is the group you are referring to a BGB holders group ? I might have heard about it somewhere else but what benefits are attached to it. I saw Bitget is celebrating Summer for holders https://www.bitget.com/support/articles/12560603828561), I’m actually interested in stuffs like this, would you mind explaining ?

[Webetcoins]

You don't want to directly mention BGB huh? But you already mentioned it there, lol. Anyways, crypto is still crazy even up to now and in fact, it's craze have increased due to adoption and then there are lots of additions right now but unfortunately NFT's didn't catch its speed and it got left behind. Didn't new NFT's where that long. Phew, time flies so fast eh? You still can make money on your own.

You don't need groups but to answer your question if how did I get involved in crypto, I only come across it in some techno forum and then my friend also talk about it to me, so that's the time I did more research. Eventually I discover the forum through Google and that is how things got more serious.

[Cointxz]

I don't want to directly mention the BGB holders group, I'd do it in the comments when someone here engages with it, or what do you think?

Everything is interesting until you drop this shit shilling for BGB tokens. I don’t understand why you guys keeps approaching with this type of marketing despite it gives negative impact to your product.

Your shitty shill makes Bitget exchange looks like a spammer that’s why I never use this exchange ever since the shill begin here.

[DeathAngel]

I read about Bitcoin online & about a year after dismissing it I started to buy in 2015. It’s been a long journey for me but I have opportunities that I never would have had without crypto. I am thankful for that & I try to introduce others to crypto to maybe help make their lives better too.

[Josefjix]

Those were times where I was doing basically nothing and making money off the calls from some of the groups and servers I was in.
It's a lot harder now, things are more exclusive now, and although if you're able to get in, they have amazing benefits. But yeah times have changed.

That's how the crypto industry works, it's first come first serve basis where early investors gets the profits and loses if remain in it and not taking profits in time and move on. This shit seems like a trap if you are new.

When new development emerges, know quietly well it won't last but fades away after it trends get expired.
DeFi came and go and those that came in early wins.

[Baki202]

The best advice that I would give to anyone is not to invest with more than what you can afford to lose when you're investing in shitcoin because they don't have any problem that they're solving and their price decreases overtime. This makes investors not to care much about these tokens. If you have extra funds use it to buy bitcoin and hodli for long term, you will not be disappointed.

It's good to have a plan to invest what you can afford to lose, but another thing is that if you always stick by the book, then you will not make any tangible profit, so the best thing will be that sometimes you can take risks, and when it does not work the way you want, then you will know that you have crossed the line just for you to make more money because the business on its own is risky, so there are different things that after considering, even if it does not work, you will be happy.

And this is why, even as the price is dropping, people are still trying their best to buy more, so it is very important to know that no matter the circumstance, you are still ready to buy and hold or even trade. Does that have a mind?

[Cryptoddler]

It was late 2017, and I was scrolling through Reddit when I stumbled upon a random post titled:
“If you bought $1,000 of Bitcoin in 2010…”

I clicked it.

At first, I was skeptical. The whole idea of “internet money” seemed like a meme. But I kept digging. I spent the next few days reading everything I could — from Satoshi’s whitepaper to BitcoinTalk threads buried in the archives. I didn’t understand half of it, but something clicked.
Bitcoin wasn’t just digital money — it was a philosophy.

By December, I’d opened a Coinbase account. My first buy wasn’t Bitcoin though…
It was XRP.
(I know. Go easy on me.)

I chased a few pumps, lost money on a weird ICO, and fell hard during the 2018 crash. But I didn’t leave.
In fact, the bear market is what really made me a believer.

I started to understand:

    Why decentralization matters

    What “trustless” systems actually protect us from

    How Ethereum, smart contracts, and DeFi were rewriting the rules

[Akbarkoe]

The best advice that I would give to anyone is not to invest with more than what you can afford to lose when you're investing in shitcoin because they don't have any problem that they're solving and their price decreases overtime. This makes investors not to care much about these tokens. If you have extra funds use it to buy bitcoin and hodli for long term, you will not be disappointed.

It sounds like the principle of gambling, haha ​​and yes it's a form of gambling when buying shitcoin.

But you will be a successful gambler if in 2020 buying Shiba Inu and also Dogecoin really an experience that cannot be repeated in future and will only be a history of victory that will not come twice.
Bitcoin is a place to store wealth, not for investment, Bitcoin becomes assets to bring our money to the future, a pleasant facts if we have bitcoin, not we are getting richer but other people are poorer because inflation continues every year.

[mk4]

2016. Found out through Reddit about the Bitfinex hack. Started "mining" through some shitty faucet lmao.

If you want hours worth of reading material: How did you get into Bitcoin? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1606579.0

[Lanatsa]

I recovered my old discord account today, and it brought back memories from 2020 when crypto and NFTs was still very crazy.

Those were times where I was doing basically nothing and making money off the calls from some of the groups and servers I was in.
It's a lot harder now, things are more exclusive now, and although if you're able to get in, they have amazing benefits. But yeah times have changed.


I don't want to directly mention the BGB holders group, I'd do it in the comments when someone here engages with it, or what do you think?

Remembering into those years or days when ICO investment was still on hype and there are tons of bounties and also same goes with those doublers or ponzis that been scattering around the market. Im even that fond of investing with that Hashocean investment wayback on having that kind of mining rentals and getting some daily revenue but ending up on being scammed. I do remember that those days on which its easy to make money with bounties on which you do just that simply input up your address on a google form then you are already that eligible on getting those tokens for free and the rate or chance for these tokens to get listed is higher in compared in todays odds or chance on which tons of scam projects ended up on not paying. Im not saying that all of those projects way back are legit but it is much more better when you are that talking or speaking about those tokens ended up on having some good value or you can literally make free money out of those free tokens.

The time that some of my friends do make out some introduction into this forum on which this is the first time i have seen into those ICO threads or bounty threads on which this is the primary things that interest me on hovering myself on crypto space. It was a fun and entertaining journey but somewhat having tons of regrets that i didnt hold my coins specially Bitcoin and ETH on which those days on which you can literally be able to get free ETH on faucet too and with BNB on which remembering into those ICO price on which it is very cheap and now its very expensive.

[AlphaBheta]

You don't want to directly mention BGB huh? But you already mentioned it there, lol. Anyways, crypto is still crazy even up to now and in fact, it's craze have increased due to adoption and then there are lots of additions right now but unfortunately NFT's didn't catch its speed and it got left behind. Didn't new NFT's where that long. Phew, time flies so fast eh? You still can make money on your own.

You don't need groups but to answer your question if how did I get involved in crypto, I only come across it in some techno forum and then my friend also talk about it to me, so that's the time I did more research. Eventually I discover the forum through Google and that is how things got more serious.

Yeah, I didn't want it to come across like I was trying to shill, even though some comments have already accused me of that lol.
I also heard about crypto for the first time from a friend, and if I remember correctly, it was FEG.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure how I even decided to buy something like that.

[AlphaBheta]

I recovered my old discord account today, and it brought back memories from 2020 when crypto and NFTs was still very crazy.

Those were times where I was doing basically nothing and making money off the calls from some of the groups and servers I was in.
It's a lot harder now, things are more exclusive now, and although if you're able to get in, they have amazing benefits. But yeah times have changed.


I don't want to directly mention the BGB holders group, I'd do it in the comments when someone here engages with it, or what do you think?

Remembering into those years or days when ICO investment was still on hype and there are tons of bounties and also same goes with those doublers or ponzis that been scattering around the market. Im even that fond of investing with that Hashocean investment wayback on having that kind of mining rentals and getting some daily revenue but ending up on being scammed. I do remember that those days on which its easy to make money with bounties on which you do just that simply input up your address on a google form then you are already that eligible on getting those tokens for free and the rate or chance for these tokens to get listed is higher in compared in todays odds or chance on which tons of scam projects ended up on not paying. Im not saying that all of those projects way back are legit but it is much more better when you are that talking or speaking about those tokens ended up on having some good value or you can literally make free money out of those free tokens.

The time that some of my friends do make out some introduction into this forum on which this is the first time i have seen into those ICO threads or bounty threads on which this is the primary things that interest me on hovering myself on crypto space. It was a fun and entertaining journey but somewhat having tons of regrets that i didnt hold my coins specially Bitcoin and ETH on which those days on which you can literally be able to get free ETH on faucet too and with BNB on which remembering into those ICO price on which it is very cheap and now its very expensive.

The first time I heard about ICO and how it worked, I felt so overwhelmed lol. I wish I could back to that time with the information I have now.