Re: POLL: What's the *real* reason you ever got into Bitcoins?
Free cash, baby. 
this. my first BTC was donated to Dark Shikari, lead developer of x264. haven't spent any coins yet. you guys should donate some coins to him if you like x264. 
(his address is 1M97B78c7TBvuU8XRfwifP5yxBZdLRhjaP)