Bitcoin got onto my radar via Jeffrey Tucker, of whom I'm a big fan. I tweeted about it during it's run-up before the Mt. Gox crash and didn't have a high opinion of it after that.
But Jeffrey kept talking about it and writing articles about it, so when the price started recovering from $250, I finally bought in at about $400. I held that for a while, thinking it was a good-enough investment, but then it started REALLY rising and I began buying more. At that point I started following a ton of Bitcoin related accounts on Twitter and one of them, not sure which, kept referring to the bitcoin price using the chart at price.bitcoin.com. So that was my entry point to this site. I'd never heard of bitcointalk nor visited bitcoin.org. I didn't even have a reddit account until a couple weeks ago!
When I first heard of the cloud mining plans being offered by Bitcoin.com's pool, my first thought was: "
Hey, my coins are sitting doing nothing. This is probably a great way to put them to work and earn some interest!"
But my next thought was: "
Nowhere does the pool.bitcoin.com site guarantee any positive return on investment, so do these plans actually pay out more BTC than they cost?" And from there I built my little calculator, discovered that the 6-month plan was the best deal at the time and bought one. After that, I thought that other people could benefit from using the tool as well, so I cleaned it up and posted it here.
This forum is the first Bitcoin-focused community I found a home in, so thanks! I hope it keeps growing.
