Back in the day of 2009 I heard about it but was hesitant to buy into digital currency and got married instead.  2011, a friend mentions me about a market place where you can buy anything you want.  He eventually died by an unknown substance purchased a "pharmaceutical" from the market.  During the time I was starting online classes for management and began discussions about bitcoin on my class forums.  I was not sure what to think about bitcoin after losing a friend over a market a negative reputation around the subject.  I eventually regained curiosity and wanted to learn more about cryptocurrency so I continued to involve topics in class discussions.  There was a variety of views and not many people knew much about Bitcoin.  Around 2014, I completed my bachelors and pursued my masters in business administration.  During this time I continued to discuss Bitcoin in my online class forums, and more people was interested on decentralized system, especially when the market value had extremes of appreciation and depreciation.  I guess my education expanded further thanks to implementing digital currency into my discussions.  However, I still wanted to learn more of the use to society and eventually involved myself to a few projects.  This exposure gave me a better understanding about what a project can be created from the technology and many benefits along with problems in development.  You may see a rise of new programs coming out from Bitcoin, but at the same time with scams.  Doing the due diligence in acquiring the research needed prior to involve oneself to any project required a bit of time to analyze the project's worth.  This is important when you have limited funds to invest into projects.