I first found out about Bitcoin reading a blog post about it online if I remember right. I was not interested in mining or trading crypto currencies so I focused on using it as a means of digital money and of course for investment because I had heard its value would keep increasing.
I am interested in bitcoin and try to get it, it was very difficult. I tried to get just from faucet. I even difficult to get 0.001 within a week. until at last there was a giveaway of stellar. I get a result that is high enough. I used to be very confused with how transactions were confirmed, and was always confused between miners and those who ran nodes. Over time I started learning most of it from Bitcoin wiki's and on reddit.
Yes apart from faucet it is nearly impossible to earn bitcoins now a days, when I first came into bitcoins I bought them for real money and that time the price was cheap and till date today i regret why I sold them at a lower price. Hope the buyers now don't sell this asset at a cheap price.
The price could never been that cheap as mentioned, even with that price you could have managed to earn a good profit. While you were buying the money value too might be low. Based upon the factor of increase with respect to time the price have increased from the lowest. Also the price variation happened much during the past few years.