How did you guys get into bitcoin?

[Eisenhower34]

A friend told me about bitcoins in times where it was profitable to mine So i jumped on the train. Sad that we passed those days but i hope I can soon turn on my miners again

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[WhatsHappening]

I read an article about one bitcoin scam. Then i investigated the issue of bitcoin. And loved the idea. Here I am.

[outsidefactor]

My first reaction: SCAM! I thought is was a BotNet recruitment program or just some waste of time.

Did a lot of research before getting started and now I mine 2 Ghash/sec 24/7.

[minivan81]

Like others have already mentioned, I heard from a friend and the first thing I thought too was, "wait, this has got to be a scam."  A few weeks later, I have 2 mining rigs pulling 2.5 G/Hash 

[Black Sheep]

On november 2011 i was thinking about upgrading my graphics card so i started doing some research on gpus. I was looking through craigslist and found a hd6870 and the guy added a comment:

"If you do bitcoin mining it can actually pay for itself"

So I wondered, what the hell is bitcoing mining?!

After that my attention passed form gaming to bitcoins and the amazing system behind it.

 

[pskonejott]

Haha I read about it

[oscer]

A friend asked me to pull his miner equipment out of the datacenter when i went down

[mprep]

I was looking for a way to earn online a year ago and found an article about mining bitcoins. Then I researched it a bit and forgot about it until now.

[digital-reality]

I've been a content creator on Second Life since around 2006. In 2006 I could sell my linden dollar for around 10 USD per 1500L. Todays market yields around 5-6 USD per 1500L. I decided to add Bitcoins to my investment pool to see if I could turn a profit on the low market.

[darkee]

I can't really pinpoint when exactly and why I started. I had heard in the beginning of last year about bitcoins, but I didn't spend alot of time checking it out, so I discarded the idea rather quickly. At some point later that same year I got back around to hearing about it again and have been mining since hehe

[xloki]

Honestly, first it was when I was told that you could make money with your graphics card by "mining". Then it snowballed from there, I started mining hardcore, btc hit $30+...been trying to learn more and more ever since.

[teopless]

Saw it as a donation method in Wikileaks at the end of 2010, started searching and here I am.

[heybabit]

Saw it in one of the tech blogs I read. Initially thought it was a scam until I did a little research. Now I'm doing a bit of mining. Not making a ton, but it is fun and hasn't cost me a much at all since I had hardware already.

[localyokel]

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[bluetyphoon]

It seemed like voodoo to me when I first heard about it a couple of years ago.  People supposedly mining a legitimate online currency out of thin air and it's value supposedly going up.  Like a few others,  I thought it was a joke but it seems to be here to stay.  The first globally independent, anonymous online currency...what's not to love?

[cbeast]

These three things made me realize this was a genuine evolutionary step:

1. Bit-torrent based
2. Herculean encryption
3. The Genesis Block message

I'm not a hacker, but it was an epiphany.

[Milkman39]

Well I started by hearing about bitcoin on youtube. It really intrigued me a lot. I am thinking about building a small miner but from what I gather it is kinda pointless at this point in the game. I guess if difficulty were to fall I would get involved. Or if the price per coin was say $20usd. But I actually enjoy reading about the currency. I have always been fascinated with economies and how currency works. Just another thing to expand my knowledge.

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[problemchild]

kept hearing about it in the media on and off since the early days, discoverd silkroad figured id better have some coins.

[Wandering Albatross]

seti@home or something like that

Now there's a real waste of cycles and then they ask for donations. A classic boondoggle backed by nonsense science.

I dunno how I first heard of bitcoin might have been on LKML.

[Andrei]

Was doing research on digital currencies while writing my book "iMigration" about living a global lifestyle.

Stumbled upon a great overview at the DGC (Digital Gold Currencies) Magazine in its December 2010 issue.

Should've bought some bitcoins at that time!