Quote from: Wexnident on October 04, 2019, 08:58:44 AM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on September 08, 2019, 11:57:36 PM

This is a question to people who at some point discovered Bitcoin, but only became Bitcoin enthusiasts later - what was your experience?

I'll start with my story - I have first learned about Bitcoin in 2012 when I was looking for payment options for one online deal. In the end I used some other payment options, and Bitcoin didn't catch my interest, although I did claim a 0.005 BTC faucet once.

Then in 2014 I have learned about Dogecoin, and I still have vague understanding of cryptocurrency, I traded my BTC for DOGE and even tried to mine DOGE on my GPU. Then I quickly forgot about crypto again.

After that Bitcoin caught my attention in 2016 and I finally became a bitcoiner.

Looking back at all this, I wonder why it took me so long to became more involved in Bitcoin. What if millions of other people know about Bitcoin, but don't consider it as payment option or investment or store of value - how can we catch their attention?

I started with one of my friends saying about bitcoin and how one of his friends used the computer at our school to farm them. This was the time when bitcoin was still fairly unknown and still didn't have much monetary value. I tried dabbing into it for a bit but wasn't that interested then. When my friend updated me that bitcoin was rising and I should try it out again, I became more involved and that's what happened. It was I think around end of 2015 or the start of 2016.
Probably people don't consider it is cause they don't know much about how bitcoin works as a payment/investment option. Well, they're hugely missing out on the big things that way though.

As for me, I started mid 2016, a friend told me about bitcoin, I was amused at first, feeling excited because I can earn using my mobile phone, he taught me how to do faucets, I didnt succeed that time due to thinking of the duration of getting an income. Then a few months later, I was told to become a trader, having a capital to start with even a little will help me to earn. Telling me that it will take time to earn, then I convinced myself to learn how to be patient. That's how I start learning everything how it works in crypto world.