I guess this is what happened to me too. When i was doing some research about money making on internet I came across this site called hashocean it was a cloud mining site where you invest some money to buy a hashrate then everyday they pay you back with it. however after 2 years or more this site became a scam. they run away with the peoples money. Then after What happened I continued my research on Bitcoin. After a long run I came across this site where i collected most of my knowledge about crypto currencies.
Actually for me I heard bitcoin through a friend who really introduce me to use bitcoin. Yes before site that people could invest using bitcoin was popular and that makes me join about cryptocurrency. That is good to know you continue to search about bitcoin.