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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I wanted to buy drugs and had very little local access to the ones i wanted

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Studied it in Uni for an ethics course.

[–] 0x0f@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

i wanted something easier than paypal/cashapp/etc to transact with

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I've been into decentralized networks from a young age. I've already been running a tor node around 2009/2010. First time I've stumbled onto bitcoin was on the "banking" section of the hidden wiki, and of course I've dismissed it as just another scam.

Then around a year later somebody published a relatively detailed blogpost about the inner workings of bitcoin on a local linux enthusiast news site, and it all just clicked. I was instantly hooked.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago

I first heard about it in 2011, dismissed it as a scam that the government would have shut down and then two years later in 2013 in high school economics class my teacher read us a news article about Bitcoin and my first thought was "the government hasn't shut that down yet?". I then started to do my own research and realized what the hell I was missing and jumped in with both feet from 2014 until 2017 at which point I completely left cryptocurrency because of the fees and the block wars. I came back in 2022 and went to Monero and that's where I'm staying.

[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago