I heard about it in college back in 2011 and almost bought some then, but was afraid of losing my $10 so put my CC back in my wallet and closed my browser.   I was in grad school this past year and looked up bitcoin before it hit $1000 and saw that litecoin and ethereum were like $10 and $5 or something during my stock trading class and went gosh.  I could've made money if I had bought in.  Closed the browser.  In october, I just said, screw it.  I'm going to buy in even if I lose money.   So I did.  And I made money buying and selling and now have cryptocurrency left over after cashing out what I put it.

  If I had held onto those $1 bitcoins I was gonna buy,  it would've right now still been worth close to my house.   If I had bought litecoin and ethereum in april the way I was going to,  I would've had about 20-30k.   As it stands, I made money, no where near those other figures, but it does feel good to do that.   

Now though,  I also bought some mining equipment.   I'm done trading, it takes too much of your time.  I'd rather mine and then trade for the coins I want that have longer term value.

I also read satoshi's whitepaper and started going through his links.   I would highly recommend anyone who is in this realm to do so.   I also plan on trying to figure out how to code my own blockchain.  If I am going to invest any more in this, I want to know it in and out. 

PT