True .. back in the days bitcoin for me and many people that time in 2012 bitcoin thing often linked with a ponzi scheme as there a lot of business model running with that way and uses bitcoin as one of the tool which make me personally thinks it was just yet another scam ponzi.

There are really a lot business offering you a member get member commision which paid by bitcoin , i went that way first as i was in affiliation business and get my first bitcoin through a random company that offers me commissions in bitcoin and then bitmedia introduce me a whole new level of bitcoin and then here i am.

I heard about it properly about 6 years ago whenan IT guys in the office was talking out it.

I think it was priced about USD7000 per bitcoin in those days.

Everyone seemed to be going crazy buying and i couldn't even understand how it worked.

don't worry friend you still have that chance. bitcoin will still remain the king of all coins commanding the highest price in the market.
so you still have the opportunity to have more for the future.
more and more years bitcoin is increasingly recognized by many people in various countries and they are fighting to buy and hold as a long-term asset which will later make the price even higher.
so it's a bearish season is our chance to buy cheap and have more when bitcoin hits a new ATH in the coming year

Listening to the discussions of friends around me, when I heard the word "virtual", I felt that virtual currency was unreliable, so I didn't participate in the chat. Later, after they made a lot of money, I gradually understood the characteristics of the market and Bitcoin.

I learned about bitcoin through a random advertisement while playing online games. It says something about earning free money, after that, I searched about cryptocurrency and tried different faucets where I earned a decent amount of satoshi. I learned about it way back in 2013 however, I became interested in it when I joined this forum. I wish I could've invested more money when I first knew about bitcoin, the price of BTC during that time is just around $500.

I still remember the first time I heard about Bitcoin : it was back in 2011 and Btc was only $5 the very first day I heard about it.
I used to spend some time playing online poker back then and a guy came on a  gambling forum I was member into : he was advertising the newly launched, now legendary,  poker site Sealswithclubs ( it was .org that time lol).
They held hourly freerolls with 0.01BTC    prize pool and only a bunch of players were joining them : I remember I played there some days , placed ITM quite often but then wasted everything on cash games because I felt I was playing with playmoney .

Dropped that Bitcoin thing because I didn't understood what it was about ( I was just focused on poker) only to get back into in during 2013 bullrun ( $ 1000 ATH lol) starting to hear about it more often and remembering it was something I had bumbed into couple of years earlier. This forum was the first place I came to when I decided to reconsider the bitcoin thing in the hope I wasn't too late at it : which is where the choice of my nickname comes from  .

Yes, it's one of my big regrets.

I first heard bitcoin from my uncle way back 2015 but I wasn't interested at that time because it was still too gibberish for me and I'm too indulged to do earthly things at the heigh of my teenager life. Only got interested last 2017 and that's was the start of my bitcoin career, if only we could get back at those times.

But I do agree, even if we had the same opportunity and had the chance to go back time, we still have the same response and won't still give bitcoin a chance to prove itself because I believe 2015 was the height of scams and pyramid schemes, so I don't really blame people if they look at the bitcoin as one of said scams/schemes.

The first time I said Bitcoin was through a friend who had started working in the crypto world, and at first, I heard that bitcoin might be worthless physical coins and just a toy. But when I started reading about bitcoin and studying it I began to understand what bitcoin really is.

In 2016 I found this forum and my journey with bitcoin started from the moment I entered this forum. Bitcoin is not just a digital currency that its founder abandoned, Bitcoin continues to grow until now and is the most valuable digital currency that is not centralized and not regulated by anyone. Bitcoin became the forerunner of various altcoins and several other payment technologies.

Interestingly, we all make the same mistake of being exposed to bitcoin early on, but most of us don't pay attention to bitcoin and ignore it. It is only when it skyrockets in price that we start to notice it, which proves that most people don't like and want to avoid adopting something so new. But for those involved now, I think we are still in the early stages of the revolution, and we are still pioneers. That means we have an opportunity many people don't know about, so take advantage of accumulating bitcoin now so you won't regret it in the future when bitcoin hits 100k or 500k.

I've asked about this topic before I believe, and got some interesting responses.  It seem most people learned about it when they found out it could make them some money by a buddy or family member or whoever..  I am a little disappointed when I see that as it just feels like so few are actually learning about it for the first time in a better manor, like actually caring more about how it all works.  I found out about bitcoin sometimes in 2014, but can't remember how I did and that drives me nuts lol