I'm a computer nerd and a libertarian, so it was of obvious interest when the white paper first started circulating on reddit and slashdot 11 or so years ago. Wasn't smart enough to get rich though. My computer was too slow to mine. Bought some when coinbase first started in 2012, got nervous and sold a few months later making a few hundred. Originally I was concerned that maybe bitcoin was a sneaky way to introduce a world government coin with out it seeming to be one. Clearly (now) I give the globalists too much credit.

I had since saved up and bought a house so had money to invest in it starting in 2017 again. Was shocked to find the scaling model had changed and switched to bitcoin cash when that happened. But mostly I buy it to use it. The coolest thing I've bought with crypto is the Librem 5 back in 2018.

Also a fan of openbazaar. Strongly suggest people check that out if they haven't yet. The project is finally starting to mature.