For my first post, I want to ask everyone here a question. What made you to start following Bitcoin, and what are your current uses of Bitcoin? For me, I stumbled on it about a year ago while on Reddit. I thought the idea of a digital currency that could be transferred ANYWHERE in the world was cool as hell! I thought of all the possibilities and how it could benefit the world. All I could do was talk about Bitcoin; my friends probably got tired of hearing about it! (As I am sure they still are). I tried mining a bit. People kept telling me I was wasting my time, and it was dumb since I wouldn't make any money. I tried telling them that I was not mining to make money (it was impossible with my spec) but I was mining to learn more about the bitcoin protocol and to support the systems.

Currently I still follow Bitcoin, but I have started to branch out to other currencies, such as Primecoin. I like the idea of helping to find Primenumbers while mining! I do have a small small amount of BTC currently, but it's in a small honeymoon fund for next year (hopefully the price will be higher then!)