Bitcoin/crypto Introduction
For those who knew about Bitcoin or crypto currencies before they were a thing, how did you hear about it?
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Hi fshkcxrjvx, the silence is deafening, sorry about that.... Any of the threads below helpful?
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Fingers crossed that one of those helps you.
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I heard about it through our internal discovery teams, but they then dropped it. a few of us started mining but lost interested due to time/cost constraints (we weren't interested in spending thousands of dollars on GPUs).
Then all the hacks started to occur and most were deterred by that as well.
All of this was super early, like 2010-2011.
Buy high sell low
i read everything..all day everyday...i was mining BTC back in 2012 from my apartment when 1 BTC traded for $12
my "fun relaxing time" is reading about every new development in every field possible...i don't play video games or watch TV....i just read
okay hardo
i'm not a hardo...its just what i enjoy doing...i enjoy reading...i played video games and watched tv a fuckton as a kid and eventually got sick of it....so now i just enjoy reading...various topics..science, technology, health/medicine, politics, education, psychology, history, culture. there is so much to learn, so i never get bored.
What do you like for alt’s these days? I think NANO has a chance to blow up again to $30+
all my $$ is in PolkaDot and Chainlink now...HODL
My friends told me ab it in middle school when it was trading around 1000. I speculated $700 or so and lost a bunch on alt coins. Would not recommend
I took a venture down the Silk Road...
My friends and I first started studying it in late 2010/early 2011 in our Dungeons and Dragons group. My childhood best friend wanted to use it to gamble and was drawn at least in the prospect of being able to do all kinds of interesting things with it. The good news is we were nerdy enough to have heard about it very early (was about $0.25 back then if I recall). The bad news is all of us were incredibly straight-edge and never drank or smoked or had any temptation to do anything that was even slightly questionable, and we saw no other use case that our dollars wouldn't serve. So only he bought any.
I've never owned it and was reminded of it again three years later in 2013 when it was almost $1,000, which is when I told my friend and he sold his old stake. At first blush I would seem like a bad friend for getting him out early now that it's ~40K, but him selling at $1000 given his entry point was the equivalent of buying at $1000 and selling at $4M+ per...
Throwback Tuesday... WSO doing that thing for some reason where it combines threads instead of breaking them out, but the middle of this thread used to be its own one, and is always fun to look back on.
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/why-is-bitcoin-so-volatile#comme…
Read about it in 2011-2012 while doing a cryptography project at school. Started reading, wanted to buy a bit to play around, then chickened out when the only option was western union or meeting physically and the sketchy mtgox
Re-entered in 2019 and been holding since.
cryptocurrency was invested in 2008 by an unknown group of persons using satoshi nakamoto. bitcoin is a decentralized currency that has no central bank or single administration, that can be sent from user to user. Transactions is verified by network.
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First knew about it back in 2012 in an obscure forum from my country. Thought it was drug cartel's money or something like that. Ignored it for 4 years, until mid-2016 when it was going up again. This time I looked at the graph and thought it was too expensive (obviously wrong), didn't have any money so I didn't buy it. Then it's late 2017 and the bubble bursts. Now I know a bit about it, that it will go up again eventually and that I should at some point really try and understand it. Flashforward more 2 years: late march 2020. It did go up with the rest of the market after the crash but it wasn't in the news yet, and with the bunch of free time I have because of the COVID, I finally get down to study it.
Luckily I got in way before it started to really go up, so even now when it's down like 50% from the top I'm at an insane profit.
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