Re: What determines the newbie experience when they first come to bitcoin?
For me it began as a money making opportunity. I'd heard of Bitcoin, but never really investigated it - primarily because I knew it was something I wouldn't truly understand. So I never really followed any news on it. I had been doing a lot of online PTC and survey sites to earn spare spending money dating back to about 2010. Every now and then I would come across ad sites for BTC, but I was just looking to get a few pennies here and there so I rarely paid attention to the ad content.
In the late summer of 2017, one of the sites I visited frequently stopped using PayPal as a source to cash out earnings, but they were pushing the Bitcoin cashout option hard, so I looked into and figured I could afford to 'risk' a $25ish payout on this crazy Internet money that I knew nothing about.
With very little money to actively invest, but a history of using PTC sites, I just naturally gravitated toward the crypto faucets. Soon afterward I found bitcointalk and decided to lurk around a bit. After making a few posts here and there and a little bit of effort - I'm now just about ready to sprout my Member wings!
In the late summer of 2017, one of the sites I visited frequently stopped using PayPal as a source to cash out earnings, but they were pushing the Bitcoin cashout option hard, so I looked into and figured I could afford to 'risk' a $25ish payout on this crazy Internet money that I knew nothing about.
With very little money to actively invest, but a history of using PTC sites, I just naturally gravitated toward the crypto faucets. Soon afterward I found bitcointalk and decided to lurk around a bit. After making a few posts here and there and a little bit of effort - I'm now just about ready to sprout my Member wings!