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 When was the first time you heard the word Bitcoin? 
 2017 
 2009 
 Wow 
 2014.. 2017.. started studying and buying in 2020. Fuck me.. deserved. 
 I wish i had bumped back into it in 17 
 I wish I would go further when I googled it in 2017.. mo much more info than now, and I wasn't able to speak English at the time.. I was looking those stupid image if coins made like they were chips, and I was like wtf is this? 🥲 
 It’s still impressive 🙌 
 2013...

Spent 7 years trading without profit before finally putting in the work and understanding #WhyBitcoin.

Want to avoid wasting 7 years of your life? Learn the lessons I had to learn the hard way:

https://lookingglasseducation.com/maslows-apex-bitcoins-liberation-of-the-human-spirit/ 
 Thanks for sharing it! I will definitely use it 🙌 
 2010 
 2016 
 College roommates asked me to help them buy drugs online. Told them they were crazy and bound to get caught. 
Circa 2013ish 
 At a barbecue during the summer of 2010 
 If the conversation was on that level, I can't imagine the food 
 Read it in a Stansbury investment letter in 2014. Seemed complicated. 
 2013, a friend told me about a way of buying plants online with a digital currency.

He unfortunately is now lost to Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome because he didn’t do the work and never saved any that he bought.

Lessons 
 As soon as he realizes it is still early, he will get over it 
 Mai of 2010 
 2009 or 2010. Was like ok, nice idea, cool story bro. 
 2016  
 Mustv been after 2nd halving bullrun.  
Heard about it again after 3rd halving bullrun.  
Didnt grasp it or know what it was till #freedomconvoy2022 
 2014, from a friend at the painting academy where I was learning… yes, I didn’t do anything about it at the time, worst decision of my life (so far 😅) 
 Back in the days when Wikileaks kicked the hornets nest I witnessed how they got deplatformed by various payment providers unfortunately I never heard the word Bitcoin, the first time I was aware of it was in 2017 it immediately caught my attention it would take an additional 5 years to complete my metamorphosis to a full-fledged maxi. Sometimes I wonder how my life would've turned out if I had managed to figure bitcoin out around that Wikileaks saga, my guess is I probably would've screwed up so I made peace with 2017 since 99% of the population has still no clue I consider it still as an achievement.  
 2010 - when a Norwegian friend of mine announced he was mining it on his laptop.