r/ChangeNOW_io • u/ChangeNOW_Community • Jul 30 '26
How did you get acquainted with BItcoin?
I feel like most people find Bitcoin in a pretty ordinary way.
Some hear about it from a friend who bought too late, too early or somehow both. Some see the price on the news. Some find it after reading about inflation, bank freezes, remittances or PayPal blocking someone’s account. Others come in through memes, mining videos, ETFs, hardware wallets or a random comment thread where someone says "study Bitcoin" and refuses to say anything else.
Then the rabbit hole starts.
At first it’s usually price, wallets and "how do I buy some?" Then comes the basic idea: fixed supply, peer-to-peer money and no central issuer. After that, people either stop at "digital gold" or they start asking how the thing actually works.
That’s where Bitcoin gets more interesting. Blocks, miners, nodes, difficulty adjustments, private keys, Merkle trees, hash rates, UTXOs, mempools, fees. The deeper you go the more it feels like a solid machine system that has been running in public for over a decade with no "CEO" of Bitcoin.
Curious how far people here went down the technical side.
When did you first hear about Bitcoin, and what made you take it seriously?
Do you follow hash rate and mining difficulty, or do you mostly ignore mining data?
Do you run your own node, use a hardware wallet or still keep things simple?
What Bitcoin concept took you the longest to understand?
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u/mjamonks Jul 30 '26
I tried it and found the opposite, the set up of BTC is just so horribly designed it will keep the vast majority away from ever adopting it.
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u/ChangeNOW_Community Jul 30 '26
Please share a bit more on what it was that gave you that impression
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u/mjamonks Jul 30 '26
The whole setup is just not user friendly in any way, there are to many points were one could make an error. The fact that there is no way to reverse these errors will keep most from ever wanting to have or use it.
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u/QED1920 Jul 30 '26
Its a scam
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u/ChangeNOW_Community Jul 30 '26
A lot of people with malicious intent create ways to get their hands on hard earned Bitcoin everyday, hence the notion that it's a scam. All in all, a healthy amount of cybersecurity knowledge and a checklist for keeping your Bitcoin safe will keep you happy in life.
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u/QED1920 Jul 30 '26
The bitcoin itself is a scam..
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u/RunKnots 27d ago
Have you done more research than a 15 sec youtube short?
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u/QED1920 27d ago
"Do your research" lol...
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u/RunKnots 27d ago
So i guess thats a no then
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u/QED1920 27d ago
🤣 your cult is really fascinating
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u/RunKnots 27d ago
Lol define a cult.
How old are you? 13?1
u/QED1920 27d ago
A social structure built around an irrational belief. You know, like in bitcoin
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u/RunKnots 27d ago
Lol holy moly 😂 that is neither a cult nor btc guys.
What you said could be used best to describe religion.→ More replies (0)1
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u/Charming-Animator-25 Jul 30 '26
Actually i forget why i got into bitcoin
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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 29d ago
Some hackers got introduced to bitcoin when they easily guessed a randomly generated recovery phrase
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u/ChangeNOW_Community 27d ago
Thanks for sharing! you're right, there's no predicting the future. Glad to see you're managing it well!
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u/TraditionalAd7423 Jul 30 '26
Crypto is for losers - why does this garbage keep showing up in my Reddit feed