This was mostly when my work colleagues used to chatter about it a lot. So this was during the period 2013-14 when all this happened. Though I had some idea from the forum in earlier days but it was merely an on off situation for me and would just read it as casus fun thing. But things for me started kicking off when I heard it from my work colleagues and the way they started about it was just jaw dropping for me. You know the period when bitcoin first hiked a lot and shit like that. So this got me into crypto and then rest is just story everywhere.

My girlfriend was the first person that talked to me about btc in the year 2015, I didn't give her much-listening ear because I never understood what she was doing and I was like how do you want me to venture in to something you are not even sure that will stay up to 1year before it will crash? But today I am here because with btc she has a good testimony.

that means if you mined a lot and saved or had saved from that time until today then you would be another rich guy, in my case I entered this world in 2016 when the price was 500$, time really passed fast and price it has increased a lot since 2016. they are good, unforgettable memories.


youtube channels are the biggest promoters of cryptocurrencies in my opinion, channels with many followers are talking about bitcoin, altcoin and many things about the cryptocurrency market

The first time I heard about bitcoin was on CNBC TV in 2013, at that time the price of bitcoin reached more than $ 1000 and it became a hot topic on CNBC and almost every day always reported about the bitcoin phenomenon, unfortunately I didn't invest in bitcoin because CNBC also reported that many countries were against it. bitcoin because it is considered to be competing with fiat.

I got introduced by a friend who really didn't care much for Bitcoin just treated it like a novelty worth discussing. I went home and started doing research and at first wanted to mine, then I wanted to invest in cloud mining, we all know how that went... Later I started trading, altcoins first, then Bitcoin, then after some time I came to understand how it all works and saw the benefits of holding.

We are all thrown into this space and try to make sense of it, but it takes time. If your first thought after joining the space was to buy and hold bitcoin, you are among the lucky ones who used a shortcut while the rest of us had to run a whole marathon.

I think it was in May 2016 when its price was at $500 that I saw a post on Twitter that talked about bitcoin and a good opportunity to invest in it. The publication struck me as very fantastic in addition to using a technology that I did not know. At that time I was looking for information on how to create a PayPal account to receive money from abroad and if I had investigated more about bitcoin, I would be telling another story.

Almost everyone knows about Bitcoin these days. If you make use of social media or you go outside there is the possibility that you are going to hear someone talk about crypto currency or especially on social media. I got to know about cryptocurrency through Twitter. There are times that crypto currency usually trend especially when the price becomes bullish.

You would always see it trending on social media twitter and a lot of people would be talking about it. That was how I really got to know about it, though I also had to do my own research to have a full understanding on what it is really all about. I never really needed anybody’s support because there were lots of helpful articles that I could find online which helped me to create my own wallet and startup investment in cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin news have come down well, Bitcoin is currency that everyone knows about it, if i have forgot how i notice what is bitcoin but i remember that somebody told me about bitcoin,  and that time the news is not as open as it is this time, and i started to check for it for internet, today Bitcoin is asset which everyone is ready to work towards it.

A bitcoin account? Everyone does have the same thought if we knew bitcoin at the beginning and early days. But that's it, we have to move on and deal with its current state that it got a higher price now compared to years ago.
Where are we during those times in the past? We didn't give importance to it because the value was little and it's not yet that popular. That's common and people weren't curious back then, only a few.

How I got to know about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general is kinda funny to me each time I remember, below is how it all played out.

I can't remember exactly when it was but I think it was in late 2015, there came this ponzi scheme popularly known as MMM at the time, it grew and become very popular in my country to the extend that almost every one on the street and corners of the country was into MMM, each country mostly in Africa and Asia had their own version of MMM, and there was also a global version which was referred to as MMM united.
The difference was that local MMMs pay users in their local currencies while MMM united which was the global version paid users in bitcoin and Ethereum.
Being from Nigeria, I was introduced to MMM Nigeria by @dalemat, by then, he was one of the leaders in MMM Nigeria due to having many referrals, so he had his own community on telegram, MMM Nigeria was paying members 30 percent monthly, but along the line, our then boss, @dalemat introduced us to MMM united which was paying 100 percent monthly in bitcoin and Ethereum, I signed up on MMM united and that was how my research about what bitcoin is began.

It didn't take long before MMM crashed in 2016, I and everyone else lost good amount of money, then our boss, @dalemat introduced a new crypto currency called Kuwait coin to us, the coin was in its ICO then, and it might be worthy of note that Kuwait coin was the reason I signed up on this great forum, I and every one else from dalemat's community invested in Kuwait coin but it ended up being a scam, we all lost our money including our boss, dalemat. Before Kuwait coin decide to run away with investors money, I've gotten familiar with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies available back then, so after the scam, dalemat then introduced us to day trading on poloniex exchange.

This was how I began my bitcoin/crypto journey and till date, am still here.