How Did You First Learn About Bitcoin?

[goldkingcoiner]

Hi everyone,
I’ve been curious about how people first discovered Bitcoin.
Was it through a friend, online articles, social media, or maybe during a market hype period?
For me, it’s interesting to see how different journeys start, especially since many people enter the space for different reasons — technology, investment, privacy, or just curiosity.
How did you first hear about Bitcoin, and what made you decide to learn more about it?
Looking forward to reading your stories.

I think I heard about it on some forum or other as some magic internet money that can be used to buy drugs off of strangers on the internet completely anonymously. Back then it was mostly used for such illegal dealings but in time it became clear that Bitcoin can easily be tracked and it started evolving into something much more decent. Hopefully in time it will evolve even further for the good of humanity.

[Youngrebel]

Heard about Bitcoin investment from a conversation between 2 people.  It sounded very strange.  Not just strange but I had concluded that it was one of those pungi schemes so I had zero interest in it. One of the reasons I had not interest was because Ive had an encounter with a pongi  scheme so I never wanted to fall victim of another.
I know of a relative who even has an investment years back and when bitcoin started rising he couldn't find his seed phrase hence he lost everything that he invested before.

[LogitechMouse]

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Was it through a friend, online articles, social media, or maybe during a market hype period?
For me, it’s interesting to see how different journeys start, especially since many people enter the space for different reasons — technology, investment, privacy, or just curiosity.
How did you first hear about Bitcoin, and what made you decide to learn more about it?
Looking forward to reading your stories.

September 2017. That's the time where I started to know more about cryptocurrencies. If I remember correctly, Bitcoin's price back then was at around $2000, and it's starting to go up during that time. It always amaze me to see the price of Bitcoin went from around $2000 when I started learning about crypto to reached as high as $126,000 after only 8 years.

Anyway, I learned all of my knowledge both from this forum, and from YouTube. I still remember back then when I always watch Bitcoin documentaries because that's where the knowledge is for me during that time. At the same time, this forum also helped me learn more about Bitcoin, and altcoins as well. I started without any mentor, and it's all self-learned from me that's why it's hard especially when you're a newbie. There's a chance that you might get overwhelmed with the amount of information that you will be seeing every time you make a research online. That's what I felt back then, but I didn't stop because I want to learn it.

I heard Bitcoin from my friend and he introduced me to crypto, the forum, and Bitcoin. I decided to learn more about it just because of curiosity, and of course money as well. The technology might've helped me a  bit with my decision, but it's because of the first 2 that I shared

[Kavelj22]

September 2017. That's the time where I started to know more about cryptocurrencies. If I remember correctly, Bitcoin's price back then was at around $2000, and it's starting to go up during that time. It always amaze me to see the price of Bitcoin went from around $2000 when I started learning about crypto to reached as high as $126,000 after only 8 years.

I guess that the majority of veteran bitcoin enthousiast today have started their journey in mid 2017 during the ICO boom. They were all encouraged by the huge benefits from an emerged market of cryptocurrencies, even before to learn about bitcoin itself. That period was huge and so impressive in the history of bitcoin after the ATH in 2013.

It's also worth mentioning the importance of bitcointalk forum to lead the community in all periods. We can say that bitcointalk was the school for users with all their different approaches.