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.