A few months before the pandemic hit I guess? I was lightly touching trading back then (and suffered as a dumb kid with how fees work). I did know and touched about Bitcoin before (from a friend I knew back in HS) but it was only then that I really started handling it. I was lucky enough to avoid that massive pit that happened when the pandemic started but didn't foresee it coming back after that, so I lost out on a pretty big opportunity in terms of investment. It wasn't really helpful that I was a student back then, most of the side gigs I did that gave out money went out to be saved up to build up my PC (I had a pretty basic laptop back then), so the amount I had was minimal, so I couldn't risk it investing again what after that big dump that happened.

It was also helpful that our mobile wallet I use (coins.ph) finally had crypto conversion/crypto transaction (which was like an exchange, but much easier to access for someone ignorant like me back then I guess) which also pushed me to trying it out.

FAUCETS!!!!!!!!

Patiently waiting every minute, I'm opening more than 20 tabs in my google chrome browser 5 years ago and spending my time answering those captchas just to get a few satoshis. What did I do with the Satoshis that I earned? I put it into Eobot (a cloud mining website) and I purchased some mining power thru those Satoshis that I got. I'm just happy at that time knowing that I'm just starting to learn crypto and I'm earning some Satoshis for free. What I didn't know is that Eobot isn't profitable and all of my Satoshis are gone.

Right now, I'm not doing it anymore because I don't have the time to do it and I don't like it but I'm just happy that I earned Satoshis thru faucets.

I've earned it not bit by bit way back 2018, wherein I manage to accumulate 1 Bitcoin but is now gone or sold early this year.  Most of my earnings before were from campaigns or projects paying tokens being released on their public sale. I'd say I made quite of a huge amount before which made me achieve such thing. Then this year, I diversified my assets to other profitable investments sucb as p2e's and nft's. And now I'm quite planning to invest in huge tokens of this industry if incase a recovery would occur for next year which I hope would happen. And if not, that's why I think major coins are the best ones to invest because risk of losing investments would be lessen in comparison to other tokens which are more volatile and are not having that much of demand.

Just like the comment above me, I did not buy my first Bitcoin. It came as a payment. Although I have no idea what Bitcoin is all about but have been hearing the word for a very long time now until recently when I became a Bitcoin owner. It's actually something to be proud of despite the unfavorable situation of market now.

Participated at Bounties campaign is the first time I received payment trough Bitcoin and if not mistake around 2017 where many potential bounties campaign I got payment almost 1 Bitcoin from joining bounties campaign. Actually Bitcoin have giving financial freedom for me and leaving my real job for active only with Bitcoin as investment way.

I have been several years with Bitcoin and altcoin investment, right now never have any ideas about quit from Bitcoin have give me more than my expectation, hope new year can received more Bitcoin and get better financial freedom with my Bitcoin assets holding have going drop right now.

Personally to me this forum is an eye opener to those who don't know much about cryptocurrency including me as well, formally i mostly engaged with altcoins but after my first experience during 2017 bear market i got to buckle up my shoes and changes my investment strategies then i began to acquire more bitcoin rather than altcoin. I purchase through Binance and after sometimes i began to receive bitcoin through sig campaign till date. I will advise you to pay less attention to altcoin rather use this medium to utilized the chances of your investment to hold more bitcoin.