The ideology behind BitcoinThe root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.
With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless. - Satoshi Nakamoto
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks - Genesis Block
So the fundamental ideology is a decentralized trustless system to create an economy not dependant on governments/banks, empower repressed economies, disrupt or weaken the centralized monetary system, and economic freedom.
Something like what John Holloway said, "Changing the world without taking power."
I think majority of the early adopters were motivated by this philosophy, price wasn't a criteria.
The technology behind BitcoinThere is no denying the fact that Bitcoin/Blockchain technology is revolutionary. It is here to stay. We will be seeing more use cases of it in future. The first distributed blockchain was conceptualised by Satoshi Nakamoto and was implemented as a core component in Bitcoin and thus making Bitcoin a technological tour de force.
Technology is one of the major reasons for Bitcoin adoption.
MonetaryThe monetary aspect is profit. Adopt Bitcoin for making money. I do believe that a good number of recent investors/speculators are in for money only. Leave aside ideology, even a few doesn't bother about the technological aspect. Nothing wrong in it. It is like a get-rich-quick-scheme.
So why did you adopt Bitcoin? There might be a reason or a couple of reasons.
I have adopted bitcoin because of its monetary value, bitcoin has made a lot of people rich and its having the potential make everyone rich everywhere in the world. I don't think that one would go with the idea or the technology as their first priorities and exclude the monetary value out of it. In my opinion, I don't think the idea nor the technology would have worked without the monetary value attached. What I mean in simple terms is that, would you still follow bitcoin if the monetary wasn't attached to it, would love idea and the technology of bitcoin in the absence of the monetary value? How was it going to benefit you if you just like the idea of bitcoin and there is nothing valuable attached to it.