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@877cb256f15e239efb99a0907997b39cd2d064d1c2bdbad24268a961d6378a04 @1415da7269c4905dbee1bb380ddc0697ed2f1e03fc1d0c1f54d0f0382aaa5437 My story is that I was on the ripple users / dev mailing lists back in 2009 (i was one of the biggest ripple users then, really trying to get the people around around me to use it) --- when someone posted in march 2009 that we needed to know about this bitcoin thing (we were all trying to make cryptocurrency/decentralized currency systems work and it was an obviously brilliant idea to us). Shortly after that the ripple systems that were operating (including iirc rivulet) started enabling people to trade BTC valued trust and so I started doing so with the people around me. Eventually someone I knew ( @recorderist@freespeechextremist.com here) got his hands on some via SEPA and I was able to acquire non-ripple-BTC from him -- sometime 2010-2011. The only problem was i was pretty broke 2009-2011 (was still a university student until 2010) so even when i had the abillity to trade for it i was more worried about putting out fires of high credit card, high student loans, friends/family going through crises etc. Working fulltime eventually got me out of the hole and able to get my head above water & buy some by 2012 (and arbritrage increasing amounts via mtgox/chinese currency & canadian market through a friend with family in china). by 2013 i quit my job as a programmer and travelled the country joining a rock band & volunteering at a hackerspace in #tbay [before both were shut down]

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