Monero attracts all kinds of people around it. We even had a self-confessed bankster agent joining our nightlife in Berlin! Think about that for a moment 
Heh, I was just in cypher's thread yesterday explaining how Monero enables defections that Bitcoin cannot.
Was just thinking a bit earlier while watching that exchange, I think his mentoring to me inadvertently is making me act the same way with Monero as he did with Bitcoin way back when. And I never did get to mine BTC, but I can proudly say that I was a MRO miner.