This year? 2008/2009, I don't worry much about the future, I am just a teenager on that year but already working to help my parents to our daily needs. I don't know about bitcoin in that year, and I am just thinking about how to just be good at my Job. Hahah
2008 was a year known for recession and due to that many corporate got bankrupted and many employees lost their job and almost world economy got struck at those times. USA got suffered heavily due to their intensive home loan defaulters but developing countries from Asia and south America got chances to withstand on their own and then USA government started to print big amount of dollars in trillion value to bail out their corporate and their national economy too.
I was working in a software corporate at that time and lost my job due to that recession and then I entered into online earning by 2009 and I heard about bitcoins by that time or at least in 2010 but ignored it and then I checked bitcoin prices again when it was trading in ~$20 still I did not show interest to bitcoins. Then, again I checked by 2018 June/August and found it was trading around $600 to $700 levels so I opened a blockchain wallet to have payout from a faucet.
After bitcoin hit $1000, I started showing interest to bitcoins. But, the root case must be the recession in 2008. I lost job hence I entered into online earning then slowly entered into bitcoins

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