First time you heard about bitcoin

[bitcoinbelieve]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

[Decksperiment]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

[bitcoinbelieve]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

I thought the bitcoin was started back in 2009?

[Decksperiment]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

I thought the bitcoin was started back in 2009?

I heard of it in 98, seems 96 is how far back you should look

[MarketTime]

I heard it beginning of this year when the price surge...

[Stedsm]

Around the price increase and I wanted to get into mining, which I did.

[tattooist]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

I thought the bitcoin was started back in 2009?

I heard of it in 98, seems 96 is how far back you should look

Seems like the blockchain disagrees with you

http://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

[JessicaSe]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

I thought the bitcoin was started back in 2009?

I heard of it in 98, seems 96 is how far back you should look

are you sure bitcoin started in 1998 or 1996? I always though its 3-4 years ago..

[Decksperiment]

I believe it's conception was '96-'98.. and the block chain is not THE definative blockchain, for there was a time the blockchain website, which is only a copy, did not exist, whilst bitcoin's were being given away free the way it should be, starting at 1 per hour, that went down to 0.5 per hour, I left the net for a while, came back, and suddenly I gotta download some blockchain crap, which does not have my first 3 address's, or my kid's wallet address's in it, because they were created before the current blockchain. Beat that.. when I joined here, I was already 2 years mining.

Edit, seems I am forgetting what century I'm in, make those years after the end of the 90's pmsl...

But yup, '96-98 had something to do with bitcoin's creation..

[yraskk]

First time that I've heard something about bitcoin was two years ago, but i considered it ridicolous because i knew a bit about it 

[duke1839]

I saw a YouTube video on Bitcoin in early 2013.  I crashed (literally) in March of 2013 and had temporary short term amnesia.  I woke up in a hospital and got my iPad and started trying to find that same video again to no avail.  

I eventually did find that YouTube video like a year later and I realized why I hadn't been able to find it.  In my mind it was Hank Green talking about Bitcoin but when I rediscovered the video it was an unknown person talking about Bitcoin.  In fact I din't even realize it was the same video until the very end when he host said "you can't turn Bitcoin into a watch."

But that's not the whole story.  In 2010 and 2011 I know I was specifically going online to find alternative ways of making money like trading horse racing odds or gold farming on WoW.  I also played online poker and even after black Friday I still thought there might be a way to win play poker chips and trade them for real money.  When I look back on that time I think it is rather incredible that I didn't stumble onto Bitcoin then.  That's just a testament to how underground it was at the time.  But I know I must have sort of heard about it then even if I don't clearly remember it.  I think someone may have mentioned Bitcoin mining to me in passing when I brought up gold farming on WoW.
  
It took a crash to wake me up to Bitcoin.  I think most people are still asleep.  After leaving the hospital in April 2013 I started researching Bitcoin more.  I stated mining in May and I started buying in June.      

[b!z]

I've never heard of it. Is it some sort of magic internet money?

[sana54210]

When I first heard it in 2012, price is so low like $10 - $15 a piece. I like the technology but I did not able to buy bitcoins there are very few exchanges. And I didn't expect it's price to rise so high.

[nikkoy]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

1998? i've read the history of it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin and i found no date of 1998. How come you already have collected it in 2003? any proof of it.? I kinda confused here. 

[Corenin]

Beginning of this year.

[Vod]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

You are a liar.

[bitbaby]

Beginning of this year.

Same, I saw a documentary about it, it was either on discovery channel or National Geographic, I don't remember exactly and interestingly it was about someone who bought and had lot of bitcoin apparently had lost his key and it got me curious and I researched and I learned that I was too late. But better late than never.

[Snorek]

Vod strikes again. For justice.

My friend told me about bitcon about year ago. I am quite new but I understand all new possibilities bitcoin brings.

[b!z]

Vod strikes again. For justice.

My friend told me about bitcon about year ago. I am quite new but I understand all new possibilities bitcoin brings.

what kind of possibilities?

[subercoin]

I read news article back in summer of 2012 and I had no idea what the article was talking about. Never thought about twice until fall/winter of 2013. I wish I could of bought some when it was cheap

1998, started collecting them for free in 2003, collected 310, all in, I have only in total, 162 left.

wtf are you talking about? There was no bitcoin to collect at 2003...