I'd like to ask the users here about how you got started in bitcoins and how you acquire bitcoins.
So the two questions are:
1. When you started, did you MINE or did you BUY bitcons?
2. If you are a regular user of bitcoins currently, do you MINE or do you BUY bitcoins?
To start off the discussion, I can only answer question 1. I mined bitcoins when I started. Then I bought and sold bitcoins through an exchange.
I cannot answer question 2 because I'm no longer a regular user of bitcions.
To be honest, I started off my ventures in this world by means of receiving payouts from freebitco.in (if anyone still remembers it). When I first received the coins in my wallet, I was so hyped that I planned on buying it, and so my journey continued. I bought some coins way back February of 2014. It was not much, but i still managed to do something about it, especially the pump of a coin they called Blackcoin. That was the first successful trade I executed in my whole life. It multiplied my holdings to some extent that I can manage to buy a new cheap laptop back in the days. I never mined because I don't have the means to do so, but I tried cloudmining ni cex.io and just got some little profit, not from mining but from trading ghs in their platform.