HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT BTC

[bitcoinsydney]

Tell us the story about how you found out about bitcoins and what got you interested in it.

Everyone in my IT department at work was talking about it last year, so I got on board as things went on the surge to 30. The rest is history.

[flyingfleece]

My friend introduced me to the community one day, told me how I can use it, now I'm loving bitcoins. Boring I know, but I want to get off the newbie page dammit.

[samuelkane]

started with a newsitem on the 6' oclock about the TOR network, curious as i am i checked it out and thus discovered BTC. Im might do more then buy drugs with it though ;-) . The entire thing has awoken my inner nerd and i'm "checking it all out" till i get bored again i guess. (or get alot of money stolen hehehe)

[sp0rus]

Found out about it on Hacker News pretty early on, thought, "Hey, this is cool, I'll keep an eye on it and see if it goes anywhere."  By the time I got around to checking it out again and trying mining for myself, it was pretty much too late, but since I wasn't paying for the power consumption (was living on university at the time), decided to mine anyways.  Never amounted to much, but just recently I discovered GLBSE and started to invest in some securities.  Finding that to be a lot of fun, I decided it was also time to bite the bullet and join the forum.

[cripperz]

Saw and read about it online. I am from Singapore, though many of my friends here never heard of it, i thought the idea was new and cool. So i plunge in reading in the bitcoin forum more than ever. Ever since, im hooked.

[Gyrsur]

I read an articel in german online magazin Spiegel last year: money out of the socket

[Vicente]

the internetSSS

[Gyrsur]

I read an articel in german online magazin Spiegel last year: money out of the socket

so the article told about the guy below, i guess...

Tell us the story about how you found out about bitcoins and what got you interested in it.

May 2010: I think it was through slashdot. I didn't read satoshis paper, merely installed the client and left it churn on my desktop not knowing where to get any bitcoins and frankly not caring much either, wondering why no bitcoins were being generated.

2 days later I need the laptop for something unrelated, see the client still at "BTC 0.00". Other things on my mind, I exit the client, thinking something like "well, this is obviously broken, there should be at least 0.01 BTC or something. Screw that, maybe I'll try again later, this laptop is kinda warm, let's turn this bitcoin client off for now". What a sad day!

Only in January 2011, when again through slashdot, I see "bitcoin" for the second time, only this time, I install no client, but read the paper instead. 15 minutes later I'm all energized, praising satoshis genius, babbling on to my perplexed girlfriend about distributed proof-of-work-based timekeeping, the blockchain and whatnot, trying to explain that this could shake the world for good! I mine my first bitcents using 2 crappy onboard nvidia cards, put old dollar bills I had left over from vacations into an evelope and send it to canada... 2 weeks later I got my 5970 miner all set up and all my friends think I've gone crazy for good this time.

[BitCoinsLOL]

 Listen to a radio show called Donk Down and the host Bryan Micon talked about BTC. He also mentioned a poker site called seals with clubs that used BTC.

[sippsnapp]

I found bitcoin some time ago but did not really cared back there, then i have read this: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-02/europe/31272985_1_currency-traders-forex , and a couple other articles and got interested.

[mexxer]

Few months ago when I joined a site offering bitcoins for surveys and since then I am using them.

[red_dog007]

Not sure how, if it was internet media or tv media, but I found out about silkroad.  Was kinda interested in it, and kinda surprised that you can only get to it through Tor.   Checked it out and was like "what is this currency they take?" 

Looked into it.  Shortly there after bought 2 6870s to mine on.  Took a couple days for me to figure out all the accounts I needed to make. 

I unforgettably got out of bitcoins as I joined after the major crash and prices tanked.  Just wasn't interesting.  But now I just recently built a tee tiny "farm" (8 new gpus), so now I am really invested in it.  :-)


I hope to be able to use bitcoins more and more as I love the idea.  Hopefully one day Amazon and Newegg :-) Though right now the only thing I can do is mine. 

[chaosman]

Funny thing,
I actually learned about bitcoin doing research for a law class. It was regarding subpoenas attempting to gather information on anonymous internet users for civil lawsuits.
When I came across BTC, I instantly became interested. I wish I came across BTC a lot earlier.
I started mining a couple months ago -- I purchased one video card not really that great of speed. It is an ATI Radeon 6770 so I get around 200 MH/s..I am probably just wasting electricity rather than making anything..

[kaii]

I was investigating ways to stay anonymous on the internet and bitcoin invariably comes up as a solution.

[deus-ex-machina]

I was learning about White-Hat hacking (The good kind. Like securing things.) and found people using it on another forum. I looked into it (the price was about $10.50) and decided it was worth it, as my bank had recently decided to charge me for things I never did. I found that it was harder to get robbed without doing something stupid while using Bitcoin, and stuck with it. Never regretted it. Still don't.

[beetlebrow]

I was looking for an answer on how to repair my pos gpu that was making squeaky- bum noises and ran across a thread about mining( huh?) for something called bitcoin (huh?) and before I knew it bitcoin and I were best mates